2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/20435We report a method of estimating what percentage of people who cited a paper had actually read it. The method is based on a stochastic modeling of the citation process that explains empirical studies of misprint distributions in citations (which we show follows a Zipf law). Our estimate is only about 20% of citers read the original.Disordered Systems and Neural NetworksStatistical MechanicsPhysics and Societytext