I know of this paper "Scientific citations in Wikipedia" by Finn Årup Nielsen First Monday, volume 12, number 8 (August 2007), URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/nielsen/index.html
but, as the title says, it took into account only citations to scientific journals. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 7:31 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Has there been any research done into: the number of citations (e.g. > to books, journal articles, online sources, everything together) on > Wikipedia (any language, or all)? The distribution of citations over > different kinds or qualities of articles? # of uses of citation > templates? Anything like this? > > I realize this is hard to count, averages are meaningless in this > context, and any number will no doubt be imprecise! But anything would > be helpful. I have vague memories of seeing some citation studies like > this but don't remember the details. > > Thanks, > -- phoebe > > -- > * I use this address for lists; send personal messages to phoebe.ayers > <at> gmail.com * > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- -- Paolo Massa Email: paolo AT gnuband DOT org Blog: http://gnuband.org _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
