Dataset of first appearances of the scholarly bibliographic references on Wikipedia articles.

ABSTRACT: Referencing scholarly documents as information sources on Wikipedia is important because it supports or improves the quality of Wikipedia content. Several studies have been conducted regarding scholarly references on Wikipedia; however, little is known of the editors and their edits contributing to add the scholarly references on Wikipedia. In this study, we develop a methodology to detect the oldest scholarly reference added to Wikipedia articles by which a certain paper is uniquely identifiable as the "first appearance of the scholarly reference." We identified the first appearances of 923,894 scholarly references (611,119 unique DOIs) in 180,795 unique pages on English Wikipedia as of March 1, 2017 and stored them in the dataset. Moreover, we assessed the precision of the dataset, which

SUBMITTER: Kikkawa J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8921307 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature