There's an incentive for scholarly publishers and authors to have their works cited on Wikipedia, since there is a belief (supported by some research [0]) that

There's an incentive for scholarly publishers and authors to have their works cited on Wikipedia, since there is a belief (supported by some research [0]) that citation on Wikipedia increases subsequent scholarly citations to those articles. Such a benefit could be used to increase a Journal Impact Factor & similar metrics [1,2] or the citations to one's own works, which is beneficial to academics competing for promotion, tenure, and research grants which are partially based on citation metrics.[3] I wouldn't be surprised if there was some indiscriminate citation on Wikipedia to bolster the metrics. [0] https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/01/guest-post-wikipedias-citations-are-influencing-scholars-and-publishers/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2022/11/01/guest-post-wi... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_factor [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation_impact [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6668985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6668985/