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Unread and uncited are very different things. It appears that the 50% number is some sort of arbitrary (short?) time scale "has it been cited yet" metric. Citin
by kardos 10y ago
Unread and uncited are very different things. It appears that the 50% number is some sort of arbitrary (short?) time scale "has it been cited yet" metric. Citing something is much harder than reading; you need to do some research, write it up and go through the publishing process. If 200 people read a paper but not cite it, is it a failure?
- dragandj 10y agoI am pretty sure that the vast majority of cited papers have not been read by the people who cite them.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI've often tried to find the "canonical" paper to cite for a certain fact, and found that it barely even mentions the relevant fact at all. It just somehow became canonical because everyone needed a citation for the same thing later on.