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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.
Authors
- Vwani Roychowdhury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0832-6489)
- M. V. Simkin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5177-5784)
Institutions
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Complex Systems
- Published
- 2024-09-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25088/complexsystems.14.3.269
- Citations
- 146
- Primary Topic
- Complex Network Analysis Techniques
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00