The Most Influential Medical Journals According to Wikipedia: Quantitative Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Wikipedia, the multilingual encyclopedia, was founded in 2001 and is the world's largest and most visited online general reference website. It is widely used by health care professionals and students. The inclusion of journal articles in Wikipedia is of scholarly interest, but the time taken for a journal article to be included in Wikipedia, from the moment of its publication to its incorporation into Wikipedia, is unclear.

Objective

We aimed to determine the ranking of the most cited journals by their representation in the English-language medical pages of Wikipedia. In addition, we evaluated the number of days between publication of journal articles and their citation in Wikipedia medical pages, treating this measure as a proxy for the information-diffusion rate

SUBMITTER: Jemielniak D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6356187 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature