Abstract
We report a method for estimating what percentage of people who cited a paper had actually read it. The method is based on a stochastic modeling of the citation process that explains empirical studies of misprint distributions in citations (which we show follows a Zipf law). Our estimate is that only about 20% of citers read the original.
Citation impact
146
total citations
- FWCI
- 0.00
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 4
Citations per year
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2Topics & keywords
Topics
Keywords
- Popularity
- Citation
- Computer science
- Subject (documents)
- Reading (process)
- Zipf's law
- Point (geometry)
- Scale (ratio)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Quality Education
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