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Are Wikipedia citations important evidence of the impact of scholarly articles and books? data collection

Collected large samples of recent academic journal articles and publications from a variety of disciplines - a total of 302,328 article citations and 18,735 monographs from 2005 to 2012 from Scopus. Of all these articles, only 5% included references to Wikipedia, but 33% of the monographs, mostly in arts and humanities, contained as least one citation to Wikipedia.

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Updated 2021-01-09

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