Hong Chen
PhD student at University of Michigan School of Information.
Computational Social Science | Science of Science
http://hongcchen.com
- How accurately do citations reflect the original research? Do authors truly engage with what they cite? In a new study, we analyze millions of citation sentence pairs to measure citation fidelity and how it varies depending on authors’ engagement with prior literature. arxiv.org/abs/2502.20581 ⬇️
- Not all citations are equal! They vary in fidelity – citations may paraphrase, summarize, or even misrepresent original knowledge.