Tomaszewski, R., & MacDonald, K. I. (2016). A study of citations to Wikipedia in scholarly publications. Science & Technology Libraries, 35(3), 246-261. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0194262X.2016.1206052?casa_token=Qlt-f7gvINEAAAAA%3AMR-70hHTkDlX5TGB2lQCFD5YO9ZcbT7QjIrUC3oJSZQczch8HP8RhH7EK6K2ZrfoAIXM4OKXnXmcFQ. 

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The use of Wikipedia citations in scholarly sources, specifically scholarly journal publications, has been continuously increasing. One of the main reasons research tends to cite Wikipedia is for purposes of background information and introduction.  

A study of citations to Wikipedia in scholarly publications

- Used the “Cited Reference Search” tool in WoS to look up “Wikipedia” in three different indexes from 2002 to 2015 – Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. (Among the 16.6 million peer-reviewed articles in all three indexes, 1,551 citations or 0.0099% of scholarly articles were found to have at least one reference to Wikipedia). 
- Used the “Analyze Results” tool to further determine the research topics and institutional affiliations of such publications. 

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