Kousha, K., & Thelwall, M. (2017). Are Wikipedia citations important evidence of the impact of scholarly articles and books?. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(3), 762-779. https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/asi.23694. 

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There is a correlation between Wikipedia articles and citations in scientific journals, as seen in the evident increase in Wikipedia citations found in Scopus publications. Furthermore, Wikipedia citations can vary depending on the subject of interest. Wikipedia articles are cited more in book-based fields compared to scholarly publications. On the other hand, Wikipedia articles can be found citing recent scientific publications in disciplines such as information and computer science. 

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

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

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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