400:"In this paper authors analyzed over 40 million articles from the 55 most developed language versions of Knowledge (XXG) to extract information about over 200 million references and find the most popular and reliable sources. In the research authors presented 10 models for the assessment of the popularity and reliability of the sources based on analysis of meta information about the references in Knowledge (XXG) articles, page views and authors of the articles. For example, among the most popular scientific journals in references of English Knowledge (XXG) are: Nature, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Science, The Astrophysical Journal, Lloydâs List, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astronomical Journal and others."
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is the most-cited example here); or market interests dictate that a news source should, in a hyperpartisan manner, manufacture sensationalised stories in whatever topics research indicates will be most-clicked on. Both types of narratives are exclusionary of many people in our society. The more
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I came here to highlight the exact same passage. It would be interesting if there was an opt-in tool where you could specify articles to "super-watchlist" and be notified of sudden pageview spikes (say, if a single day hits x10 of the previous monthly/yearly average, or x3 of the previous daily
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