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Suggestion for a future piece: thoughts on JCW and Wikidata. fgnievinski (talk) 04:19, 1 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Headbomb, Warmly seconded! Agreed that one or two highly cited (or miscited) articles will skew these stats, but any power law in that would also be also interesting to see. – SJ + 15:53, 14 September 2023 (UTC)Reply
Excellent work. Speaking of Wikidata, what about citations using {{Cite Q}}? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:47, 1 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Completely ignored. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 15:48, 1 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Yes, but how do you plan to fix that omission? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:04, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
I don't. Cite Q lives in Wikidata, not in the data dumps. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:24, 2 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Interesting experiment. I am probably more interested in individual highly cited journal articles than which journal they were published in. But there is obvious overlap. Highly cited articles will contribute to the highly cited journal count. I think one needs to take care in interpreting the results.^[1] The most highly cited in Wikipedia was a human genome sequencing article.^[2] This citation was added to a lot of Gene Wiki articles by a bot. It in many cases, it was the first description of the sequencing of a particular gene. One the other hand, the citation is not a very good one because it is not very specific to a particular gene and also the source is primary. This and similar citations are gradually being replaced by more specific citations. So it would be interesting to see how the most cited scholarly articles and journals change over time. Boghog (talk) 20:29, 1 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Very interesting article. I would be curious to know if there are similar projects in other languages such as French or German. PAC2 (talk) 05:38, 14 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

Not to my knowledge, though it should be fairly straightforward to port and localize the bot to those projects. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:45, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply

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^ Guglielmi G (May 2018). "Wikipedia's top-cited scholarly articles - revealed". Nature. 557 (7705): 291–292. Bibcode:2018Natur.557..291G. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05161-6. PMID 29765126. S2CID 256768531.
^ Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, Derge JG, Klausner RD, Collins FS, et al. (December 2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.

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[1] Guglielmi G (May 2018). "Wikipedia's top-cited scholarly articles - revealed". Nature. 557 (7705): 291–292. Bibcode:2018Natur.557..291G. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-05161-6. PMID 29765126. S2CID 256768531.

[pmid12477932-2] Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, Derge JG, Klausner RD, Collins FS, et al. (December 2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.

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