Science through Wikipedia: A novel representation of open knowledge through co-citation networks.

ABSTRACT: This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been established for the analysis of how Wikipedia editors regard science through their references to scientific papers. The method of co-citation has been adapted to this context in order to generate Pathfinder networks (PFNET) that highlight the most relevant scientific journals and categories, and their interactions in order to find out how scientific literature is consumed through this open encyclopaedia. In addition to this, their obsolescence has been studied through Price index. A total of 1 433 457 references available at Altmetric.com have been initially taken into account. After pre-processing and linking them to the data from Elsevier's CiteScore Metrics the sample was reduced to 847 512

SUBMITTER: Arroyo-Machado W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7010282 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature