Read Before You Cite!
V.P. Roychowdhury,
May 29, 2003
This is pretty funny. From the 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." Though I can't claim to have followed the mathematics, I did read this paper before listing it here.
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