Wikipedia as a gateway to biomedical research: The relative distribution and use of citations in the English Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is a gateway to knowledge. However, the extent to which this gateway ends at Wikipedia or continues via supporting citations is unknown. Wikipedia's gateway functionality has implications for information design and education, notably in medicine. This study aims to establish benchmark...

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Main Authors: Lauren A Maggio, John M Willinsky, Ryan M Steinberg, Daniel Mietchen, Joseph L Wass, Ting Dong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5739466?pdf=render