Peer-reviewed physics for Wikipedia: PLOS ONE Topic Pages | EveryONE: The PLOS ONE blog

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-01-05

Summary:

"Despite Wikipedia’s importance as a resource for both practicing physicists and the wider community, it is rare for professional physicists to contribute, in part because there are few, if any, professional incentives to do so. We’re all in agreement that researchers should receive proper attribution for our work (which is why PLOS ONE supports ORCID); and as credit is not given for submitting or editing Wikipedia pages, only a small fraction of the physicists that I asked about this have edited even a single Wikipedia page.

With this in mind, we’re excited to introduce PLOS ONE Topic Pages, which are peer-reviewed review articles written with Wikipedia in mind. These provide opportunities for author attribution and will result in both journal articles and Wikipedia pages of high quality and utility...."

Link:

https://blogs.plos.org/everyone/2019/01/04/onetopicpages/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.wikipedia oa.plos oa.plos_one oa.physics oa.quality oa.attribution oa.peer_review oa.dynamic

Date tagged:

01/05/2019, 16:11

Date published:

01/05/2019, 11:11