Read before you cite!

@misc{citeulike:497537, abstract = {We report a method of 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 only about 20\% of citers read the original.}, author = {Simkin, M. V. and Roychowdhury, V. P. }, citeulike-article-id = {497537}, eprint = {cond-mat/0212043}, keywords = {checking, citation}, month = {Dec}, posted-at = {2006-09-02 22:20:52}, priority = {3}, title = {Read before you cite!}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212043}, year = {2002} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:497537 L3 - citeulike-article-id:497537 TI - Read before you cite! N2 - We report a method of 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 only about 20% of citers read the original. KW - checking KW - citation AU - Simkin, MV AU - Roychowdhury, VP PY - 2002/Dec/03/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0212043 ER -