Ever wondered what the 10 most cited sources on Wikipedia are?

ab1630's bookmarks 2018-05-13

Summary:

"These are the two words you never want to see on Wikipedia: [citation needed] Why? Because Wikipedia isn't infallible. The world's fifth most popular website – according to um… Wikipedia – is an awesome resource of almost endless knowledge, but that knowledge is only as sturdy as the bedrock of primary sources it's built on top of. That's why you never want to see [citation needed]. Every time you do, it becomes a bit harder to rely on whatever it was you just read – and because no source is listed, it's harder to track down further information if that's what you need. With those sorts of things in mind, and to publicise open accessibility of scholarly citation data, researchers at the Wikimedia Foundation recently compiled a dataset of all academic citations across Wikipedia, combing each of its 297 editions published in different languages. For the purposes of this analysis, each citation had to have a research-oriented identifier: either an ISBN (books), a DOI (research papers), a PMID or PMC (biomedical research), or an arXiv ID (pre-print research). In other words, Wikipedia citations referencing regular web pages (like the story you're reading right now), newspaper or magazine articles, or TV shows wouldn't be included – but basically all circulating research in scientific and non-scientific literature would be...."

Link:

https://www.sciencealert.com/ever-wondered-10-most-cited-sources-wikipedia-academic-research

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oa.new oa.citations oa.wikipedia oa.data oa.metadata oa.oer

Date tagged:

05/13/2018, 14:43

Date published:

05/13/2018, 10:43