Wikipedia’s relationship to academia and academics – Hblog.org

lkfitz's bookmarks 2018-03-16

Summary:

"I was recently quoted in an article for Science News about the relationship between academia and Wikipedia by Bethany Brookshire. I was asked to comment on a recent paper by MIT Sloan‘s Neil Thompson and Douglas Hanley who investigated the relationship between Wikipedia articles and scientific papers using examples from chemistry and econometrics. There are a bunch of studies on a similar topic (if you’re interested, here is a good place to start) and I’ve been working on this topic – but from a very different angle – for a qualitative study to be published soon. I thought I would share my answers to the interview questions here since many of them are questions that friends and colleagues ask regularly about citing Wikipedia articles and about quality issues on Wikipedia."

Link:

https://makebuildplay.blog/2018/02/07/wikipedias-relationship-to-academia-and-academics/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.wikipedia oa.comment oa.citations oa.quality oa.credibility oa.disciplines

Date tagged:

03/16/2018, 16:46

Date published:

03/16/2018, 12:46