title: Impact of Wikipedia on citation trends.
abstract: It has been suggested that the "visibility" of an article influences its citation count. More specifically, it is believed that the social media can influence article citations.Here we tested the hypothesis that inclusion of scholarly references in Wikipedia affects the citation trends. To perform this analysis, we introduced a citation "propensity" measure, which is inspired by the concept of amino acid propensity for protein secondary structures. We show that although citation counts generally increase during time, the citation "propensity" does not increase after inclusion of a reference in Wikipedia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Sayed-Amir
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Marashi
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Seyed Mohammad Amin
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hosseini-Nami
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Khadijeh
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authors.lastname: Alishah
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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authors.lastname: Hadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
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authors.lastname: Karimi
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Saeedeh
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authors.lastname: Hosseinian
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Rouhallah Ramezani
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Fard
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Reihaneh Sadat
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Mirhassani
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Zhaleh
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Hosseini
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Zahra
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authors.lastname: Shojaie