Thank you everyone! Grouplens folks, if you could send a link to your work too, that would be awesome.
What I'm curious about: if we can give (within an order of magnitude, say) an approximation of how many sources are cited within Wikipedia -- then maybe broken out into references to printed works and references to online-only, etc. What does our project look like viewed as an ad-hoc catalog of scholarship? How does that compare to the major databases? (It's going to be a tiny, tiny percentage of the total scholarship in the world -- Pubmed has 21M records, Worldcat around 246M -- but how tiny?) This may only be answerable if someone creates a wikicite project :) thanks, phoebe On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:52 AM, Paolo Massa <pa...@gnuband.org> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
