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Citation Propensity Calculation Method in Wikipedia Impact Study
Citation counts for each year were normalized to the maximum citation count of the time period using the equation , where is the citation count in year and is the maximum citations in a 5-year period. To evaluate trends before and after Wikipedia inclusion, a 'citation propensity' metric was utilized. First, the normalized random citation count () was calculated as , where is the random citation count in year and is the random maximum citation count in the 5-year period. Finally, propensity was calculated as . A propensity () equal to 1 indicates the citation count matches chance expectations, greater than 1 indicates higher than expected citations, and less than 1 indicates lower than expected citations.
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