A Map of Science in Wikipedia
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.13790v2
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:05:48 GMT
- Title: A Map of Science in Wikipedia
- Authors: Puyu Yang and Giovanni Colavizza
- Abstract summary: We map the relationship between Wikipedia articles and scientific journal articles.
Most journal articles cited from Wikipedia belong to STEM fields, in particular biology and medicine.
Wikipedia's biographies play an important role in connecting STEM fields with the humanities, especially history.
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- Abstract: In recent decades, the rapid growth of Internet adoption is offering
opportunities for convenient and inexpensive access to scientific information.
Wikipedia, one of the largest encyclopedias worldwide, has become a reference
in this respect, and has attracted widespread attention from scholars. However,
a clear understanding of the scientific sources underpinning Wikipedia's
contents remains elusive. In this work, we rely on an open dataset of citations
from Wikipedia to map the relationship between Wikipedia articles and
scientific journal articles. We find that most journal articles cited from
Wikipedia belong to STEM fields, in particular biology and medicine ($47.6$\%
of citations; $46.1$\% of cited articles). Furthermore, Wikipedia's biographies
play an important role in connecting STEM fields with the humanities,
especially history. These results contribute to our understanding of
Wikipedia's reliance on scientific sources, and its role as knowledge broker to
the public.
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