Another interesting question (that would take a broader scope) would look at the frequency of *downstream* citations to works that are cited in Wikipedia versus all other citations.
Per usual, correlation would definitely not be causation, BUT my usual practice is 1. Google 2. Wikipedia 3. Read some of the papers cited 4. (A miracle occurs) 5. Write my own paper Interesting to wonder how many of the papers read at step 3 survive the semantic leap to step 5. On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 5:52 PM, phoebe ayers <phoebe.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
