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> In the months after uploading it, an average new Wikipedia article in Chemistry is read tens of thousands of times and causes changes to hundreds of related s
by nabla9 5y ago
> In the months after uploading it, an average new Wikipedia article in Chemistry is read tens of thousands of times and causes changes to hundreds of related scientific journal articles. ... Patterns in these changes suggest that Wikipedia articles are used as review articles ... we find causal evidence that when scientific articles are added as references to Wikipedia, those articles accrue more academic citations.
- Vanit 5y ago> we find causal evidence that when scientific articles are added as references to Wikipedia, those articles accrue more academic citations. Doesn't surprise me in the slightest. In university I quickly learned that the best assignment hack was to harvest Wikipedia references.
- oefrha 5y ago> we find causal evidence that when scientific articles are added as references to Wikipedia, those articles accrue more academic citations. I also found very casual evidence that some people abuse the shit out of it for self-promotion (which is hardly surprising).