Exploring open access coverage of Wikipedia-cited research across the White Rose Universities

Tattersall, Andy; Sheppard, Nick; Blake, Thom; O'Neill, Kate

doi:10.1629/uksg.559

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“…As Tattersall et al (2022) pointed out, "it is noteworthy that Wikipedia plays a unique role in the information ecosystem as a bridge between informal discussion and academic publishing". For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO (2020) worked with the Wikimedia foundation to expand public access to the latest and most reliable information about the virus.…”

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Characteristics analysis and evaluation of discourse leading for academic journals: perspectives from multiple integration of altmetrics indicators and evaluation methods

Wang

2022

LHT

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PurposeUnder the background of open science, this paper integrates altmetrics data and combines multiple evaluation methods to analyze and evaluate the indicators' characteristics of discourse leading for academic journals, which is of great significance to enrich and improve the evaluation theory and indicator system of academic journals.Design/methodology/approachThis paper obtained 795,631 citations and 10.3 million altmetrics indicators data for 126,424 published papers from 151 medicine, general and internal academic journals. In this paper, descriptive statistical analysis and distribution rules of evaluation indicators are first carried out at the macro level. The distribution characteristics of evaluation indicators under different international collaboration conditions are analyzed at the micro level. Second, according to the characteristics and connotation of the evaluation indicators, the evaluation indicator system is constructed. Third, correlation analysis, factor analysis, entropy weight method and TOPSIS method are adopted to evaluate and analyze the discourse leading in medicine, general and internal academic journals by integrating altmetrics. At the same time, this paper verifies the reliability of the evaluation results.FindingsSix features of discourse leading integrated with altmetrics indicators are obtained. In the era of open science, online academic exchanges are becoming more and more popular. The evaluation activities based on altmetrics have fine-grained and procedural advantages. It is feasible and necessary to integrate altmetrics indicators and combine the advantages of multiple methods to evaluate the academic journals' discourse leading of which are in a diversified academic ecosystem.Originality/valueThis paper uses descriptive statistical analysis to analyze the distribution characteristics and distribution rules of discourse leading indicators of academic journals and to explore the availability of altmetrics indicators and the effectiveness of constructing an evaluation system. Then, combining the advantages of multiple evaluation methods, The author integrates altmetrics indicators to comprehensively evaluate the discourse leading of academic journals and verify the reliability of the evaluation results. This paper aims to provide references for enriching and improving the evaluation theory and indicator system of academic journals.

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“…As Tattersall et al. (2022) pointed out, “it is noteworthy that Wikipedia plays a unique role in the information ecosystem as a bridge between informal discussion and academic publishing”.…”

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Characteristics analysis and evaluation of discourse leading for academic journals: perspectives from multiple integration of altmetrics indicators and evaluation methods

Wang

2022

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“…Since its launch in 2001, perceptions of Wikipedia have evolved [24]. Although it is not universally accepted [25], academics, health professionals, and librarians have acknowledged its influence and popularity for the communication of science [26][27][28][29] and public health education [23,[30][31][32], despite a limited understanding of how or why readers engage with it [33,34]. Scholarship has explored the benefits associated with including the citation rate on Wikipedia in assessments of the reach of published works [35] and contributing to Wikipedia has continued to gain popularity in medical education [36][37][38][39][40].…”

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Citations in Wikipedia for understanding research reach

Smith,

McKinnell,

Young

2024

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Objective: Wikipedia is the most frequently accessed online health information resource and is well positioned as a valuable tool for public health communication and knowledge translation. The authors aimed to explore their institution's health and medical research reach by analyzing its presence in Wikipedia articles. Methods: In October 2022, a comprehensive database search was constructed in PubMed to retrieve clinical evidence syntheses published by at least one author affiliated with McMaster University from 2017 to 2022, inclusive. Altmetric Explorer was queried using PubMed Identifiers and article titles to access metadata and Wikipedia citation data. 3,582 health evidence syntheses from at least one McMaster University affiliated author were analyzed. Results: Six percent (n=219) of health evidence syntheses from the authors' institution were cited 568 times in 524 unique Wikipedia articles across 28 different language editions. 45% of citations appeared in English Wikipedia, suggesting a broad global reach for the institutions' research outputs. When adjusted for open access publications, 8% of McMaster University's health evidence syntheses appear in Wikipedia. Conclusion: Altmetric Explorer is a valuable tool for exploring the reach of an institution's research outputs. Isolating Altmetric data to focus on Wikipedia citations has value for any institution wishing to gain more insight into the global, community-level reach of its contributions to the latest health and medical evidence.

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“…They found that only 357 of 1,350 reputable journals are cited at least once in the entire Wikipedia, not well-cited across psychology-related Wikipedia entries but also well-cited across the whole of Wikipedia. Tattersall et al (2022) extracted 6,454 citations of White Rose Universities' Research on Wikipedia from 1922 to 2019 from Altmetric.com and Unpaywall Application Programming Interface (API). According to Wikipedia, the highest citations occurred in life, medical and health sciences.…”

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“…Tattersall et al (2022) extracted 6,454 citations of White Rose Universities' Research on Wikipedia from 1922 to 2019 from Altmetric.com and Unpaywall Application Programming Interface (API). According to Wikipedia, the highest citations occurred in life, medical and health sciences.…”

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Analyzing Persian Wikipedia's citations to discover the effectiveness of Persian scientific papers: applied web mining techniques

Rahimi

Danesh

2023

PMM

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PurposeThe main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of Persian Scientific Papers (PSPs) on Persian Wikipedia by studying Wikipedia's citations to these papers.Design/methodology/approachThe present study is applied research, which has been performed by the web-mining method, such as downloading web pages, extracting information (references), identifying papers, detecting peer-review journals and calculating the frequency rates. The statistical population included 10,000 Persian Wikipedia Pages (PWPs) that were analyzed in two rounds with a six-month interval.FindingsThe number of pages containing the Persian references section was 3,994 and 4,063 out of the 10,000 pages extracted in the first and second rounds. The ratio of pages that cited scientific sources (58 and 67 pages) to the pages extracted from the PWP was equal to 0.58 and 0.67%. The ratio of pages that cited scientific sources to pages with Persian references in each round was equal to 1.45 and 1.64%. The number of references extracted from the PWP in each round equaled 30,441 and 35,891. Eight titles from reputable Persian journals had received at least three citations from Wikipedia.Originality/valueThe present study has determined the extent of interaction between science and society (knowledge flow) in the form of citations from Wikipedia articles to articles in peer-reviewed journals. The study of this issue in Persian Wikipedia in more than 2000 Persian peer-reviewed journals shows the originality of the present paper. Studying citation reliability in a collaborative and openly editable platform is another originality of the work.

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Exploring open access coverage of Wikipedia-cited research across the White Rose Universities

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Characteristics analysis and evaluation of discourse leading for academic journals: perspectives from multiple integration of altmetrics indicators and evaluation methods

Characteristics analysis and evaluation of discourse leading for academic journals: perspectives from multiple integration of altmetrics indicators and evaluation methods

Citations in Wikipedia for understanding research reach

Analyzing Persian Wikipedia's citations to discover the effectiveness of Persian scientific papers: applied web mining techniques

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