Persistence of information on the web: Analyzing citations contained in research articles

We analyze the persistence of information on the web, looking at the percentage of invalid URLs contained in academic articles within the CiteSeer (ResearchIndex) database. The number of URLs contained in the papers has increased from an average of

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: CIKM
• Authors: Steve Lawrence, Frans Coetzee, Gary William Flake, David M. Pennock, Robert Krovetz, Finn Årup Nielsen, Andries Kruger, C. Lee Giles
• Keywords: Academic Articles, CIKM 2000, Information Management, Invalid Urls