A Study of Citations to Wikipedia in Scholarly Publications

Tomaszewski, Robert; MacDonald, Karen

doi:10.1080/0194262x.2016.1206052

Cited by 31 publications

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“…As in the original article, Wikipedia was the source of election data. On the use of this resource for academic purposes, see Brown (2011), Cassel (2018), and Tomaszewski and Macdonald (2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Five Laws of Politics: A Follow-Up

Cuzán

2019

APSC

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In this follow-up to “Five Laws of Politics,” I show that the original estimates of electoral outcomes describing the five “laws” hold up with twice the number of elections and three times as many countries as in the original article. The analysis yields long-run equilibrium values for several electoral parameters that set limits to incumbent support in a democracy. The evidence lends additional support to the notion that elections in democracies appear as if governed by “laws of politics.”

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confidence: 99%

Five Laws of Politics: A Follow-Up

Cuzán

2019

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“…Using the Cited Reference Search feature of the Web of Science Core Collection TM (WOSCC), as we did for this study, is another method for studying citations of various information sources in science and engineering fields. Tomaszewski (2017Tomaszewski ( , 2018 and Tomaszewski and MacDonald (2016) explore using the Cited Reference Search tool in WOSCC to study citations of chemical resources, chemical encyclopedias, and Wikipedia citations, respectively. In another study, Cardona & Marx (2007) used the Cited Reference Search to study citations to papers from a particular international conference.…”

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Citing of Industry Standards in Scholarly Publications

Rowley¹,

Wagner²

2019

ISTL

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Industry standards are used in many disciplines, including science and technology areas. To date, little research has been conducted regarding the citing of standards in scholarly publications. The aim of this study was to answer two questions: Are standards being cited in scholarly publications? And, if so, what are the characteristics of the publications citing standards? We postulated that the answer to these questions would be of use to science and engineering librarians for collection development and research assistance purposes. A cited reference search was conducted using Web of Science Core Collection™ (WOSCC) to determine if standards are cited. Our research focused on three major standards organizations: ASTM International, the International Organization of Standardization (ISO), and the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). The study was limited to publications published from 2015-2017. The results confirmed our hypothesis that standards are cited in scholarly publications in science and technology fields. In addition, we discovered that standards were cited in publications from nearly 100 countries. Funding agency and institutional affiliation were also analyzed. The data from the study confirmed the international reach and broad utility of standards in a wide range of disciplines.

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“…There is evidently a feedback loop between Wikipedia and scholarly journals, which accelerates research. Indeed, traditional journals are increasingly citing Wikipedia formally [3], and the general distrust of Wikipedia in academic circles is decreasing [4].…”

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The Most Influential Medical Journals According to Wikipedia: Quantitative Analysis

Jemielniak¹,

Masukume²,

Wilamowski³

2019

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundWikipedia, the multilingual encyclopedia, was founded in 2001 and is the world’s largest and most visited online general reference website. It is widely used by health care professionals and students. The inclusion of journal articles in Wikipedia is of scholarly interest, but the time taken for a journal article to be included in Wikipedia, from the moment of its publication to its incorporation into Wikipedia, is unclear.ObjectiveWe aimed to determine the ranking of the most cited journals by their representation in the English-language medical pages of Wikipedia. In addition, we evaluated the number of days between publication of journal articles and their citation in Wikipedia medical pages, treating this measure as a proxy for the information-diffusion rate.MethodsWe retrieved the dates when articles were included in Wikipedia and the date of journal publication from Crossref by using an application programming interface.ResultsFrom 11,325 Wikipedia medical articles, we identified citations to 137,889 journal articles from over 15,000 journals. There was a large spike in the number of journal articles published in or after 2002 that were cited by Wikipedia. The higher the importance of a Wikipedia article, the higher was the mean number of journal citations it contained (top article, 48.13 [SD 33.67]; lowest article, 6.44 [SD 9.33]). However, the importance of the Wikipedia article did not affect the speed of reference addition. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was the most cited journal by Wikipedia, followed by The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet. The multidisciplinary journals Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences were among the top 10 journals with the highest Wikipedia medical article citations. For the top biomedical journal papers cited in Wikipedia's medical pages in 2016-2017, it took about 90 days (3 months) for the citation to be used in Wikipedia.ConclusionsWe found evidence of “recentism,” which refers to preferential citation of recently published journal articles in Wikipedia. Traditional high-impact medical and multidisciplinary journals were extensively cited by Wikipedia, suggesting that Wikipedia medical articles have robust underpinnings. In keeping with the Wikipedia policy of citing reviews/secondary sources in preference to primary sources, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews was the most referenced journal.

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A Study of Citations to Wikipedia in Scholarly Publications

Cited by 31 publications

References 47 publications

Five Laws of Politics: A Follow-Up

Five Laws of Politics: A Follow-Up

Citing of Industry Standards in Scholarly Publications

The Most Influential Medical Journals According to Wikipedia: Quantitative Analysis

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