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Summary

citation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,641 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • citation is a type of reference[2].
  • citation is a type of written work[3].
  • citation's Commons category is recorded as Citations[4].
  • citation's said to be the same as is recorded as bibliographic reference[5].
  • citation is the opposite of uncitedness[6].
  • citation's equivalent class is recorded as http://edamontology.org/data_0970[7].
  • citation's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/spar/cito/Citation[8].
  • citation's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Quotation[9].
  • citation's different from is recorded as reference[10].
  • citation's different from is recorded as source of information[11].
  • citation's different from is recorded as bibliographic record[12].
  • citation's different from is recorded as quotation[13].
  • citation's directs readers to is recorded as document[14].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include reference[2] and written work[3]. citation is the opposite of uncitedness[6].

Why It Matters

citation ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,641 views/month).[1] citation has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] citation is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

bibliographic record document

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). citation. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/citation
MLA “citation.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/citation.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_citation_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{citation}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/citation}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): citation — https://4ort.xyz/entity/citation (retrieved 2026-04-10)

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · Jeb · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → reference, written work
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q12303449]]"
  2. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Opposite of → uncitedness
    Aliases → —
    Openstreetmap key → source
    Edam ontology id → data_0970
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007284606805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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