Concept
Science is shaped by wikipedia causation
- After being uploaded, each chemistry article had an average of 4,400 views per month and in 2 years, treatment articles together had more than 2 million views
- Control (green) shows rise in low similarity articles; fall in high similarity articles
- Treatment (blue) shows fall in low similarity articles; rise in high similarity articles
- Significant coefficients indicate that one new Wikipedia article leads to a positive shift in scientific literature published
- Concluded that introduction of new chemistry articles in Wikipedia caused an increase in scientific literature on those topics (scientists reading the new Wikipedia articles means impact of treatment articles on scientific literature is strong enough to imply causation)
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Updated 2021-01-21
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