Research:Scholarly article citations in Wikipedia

This page documents a research project in progress.
Information may be incomplete and change as the project progresses.
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In this project, we'll be extracting academic citations from the history of Wikipedia and observing their growing usage over time.

Methods

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To identify and disambiguate scholarly works, we'll look for structured identifiers in wiki content. See mwcites for specifics.[1]

  • PubMed (pmid & pmcid)
  • Digital object identifier (doi)
  • International Standard Book Number (isbn)
  • ArXiv Identifier (arxiv)

Sample

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page_id page_title rev_id timestamp type id
1013868 Lost in Translation (novel) 6126865 2004-09-24T13:05:40Z isbn 0385319444
972037 Fireflash 416710586 2011-03-02T09:44:39Z isbn 1576073459
1580650 Plaza Suite 634058414 2014-11-16T09:49:02Z isbn 0297781421
1491136 Coffer 494805514 2012-05-28T17:16:00Z isbn 0471284513
1013899 Valhalla (crater) 268245417 2009-02-03T13:39:07Z doi 10.1016/S0019-1035(02)00048-9
1013899 Valhalla (crater) 220955939 2008-06-22T11:30:41Z doi 10.1016/S0032-0633(00)00050-7
1013899 Valhalla (crater) 268247858 2009-02-03T13:56:51Z doi 10.1029/95JE01855
1215271 For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield song) 471591413 2012-01-16T00:26:33Z isbn 9780815412816
1424230 International Sugar Organization 448845255 2011-09-07T00:44:09Z isbn 079238072X

Summary analysis

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We'll focus on the Dutch and English Wikipedia, but the same descriptive data can be generated for any other wiki using mvcites. A pre-processed dataset for scholarly citations in English Wikipedia is available.[2]

Citations by type

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Monthly citations by type (enwiki). A normalized monthly count of citations to scholarly works is plotted for English Wikipedia.
 
Monthly citations by type (nlwiki). A normalized monthly count of citations to scholarly works is plotted for Dutch Wikipedia.

Historical usage of identifiers

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Monthly citations by type (enwiki). A monthly count of citations to scholarly works is plotted for English Wikipedia.
 
Monthly citations by type (nlwiki). A monthly count of citations to scholarly works is plotted for Dutch Wikipedia.

References

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