#citing
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #citing from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #citing
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-04 07:27 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-04 07:27 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-04 07:27 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 30 public posts (spanning ~54971 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 18:00
Languages: English (27) · Arabic (1) · German (1) · Tamil (1)
Avg boosts / post: 0.7
Top of the latest posts
#Science #authors and #editors, you need to know about this #problem with #ChatGPT: If authors use ChatGPT & end up #citing #retracted #research #papers, that reduces their own papers' believability & usefulness. https://cen.acs.org/policy/
I never cease to be amazed at how utterly useless the average #scholar is at #citing a scholarly work correctly, especially works on the web. Reading something now which is basically an orgy of reference rot. URLs containing temporaral sess
@gimulnautti @ruialves Important point, too, covered here: "#Google and #Microsoft’s #chatbots are already #citing one another in a #misinformation shitshow [#enshittificatiom] / #Microsoft’s #Bing said Google’s #Bard had been shut down aft
What “citing” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaciting/ˈsaɪtɪŋ/
- verbTo quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
- nounCitation.
A citation is a reference to a source. More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work, for the purpose of acknowledging the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the spot where the citation appears.
“Citation” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#citing across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #citing straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/citing