%0 Journal Article %1 samoilenko2014distorted %A Samoilenko, Anna %A Yasseri, Taha %D 2014 %I Springer Berlin Heidelberg %J EPJ Data Science %K academic gaw scientometrics wikipedia %N 1 %R 10.1140/epjds20 %T The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds20 %V 3 %X Activity of modern scholarship creates online footprints galore. Along with traditional metrics of research quality, such as citation counts, online images of researchers and institutions increasingly matter in evaluating academic impact, decisions about grant allocation, and promotion. We examined 400 biographical Wikipedia articles on academics from four scientific fields to test if being featured in the world’s largest online encyclopedia is correlated with higher academic notability (assessed through citation counts). We found no statistically significant correlation between Wikipedia articles metrics (length, number of edits, number of incoming links from other articles,

@article{samoilenko2014distorted, abstract = {Activity of modern scholarship creates online footprints galore. Along with traditional metrics of research quality, such as citation counts, online images of researchers and institutions increasingly matter in evaluating academic impact, decisions about grant allocation, and promotion. We examined 400 biographical Wikipedia articles on academics from four scientific fields to test if being featured in the world’s largest online encyclopedia is correlated with higher academic notability (assessed through citation counts). We found no statistically significant correlation between Wikipedia articles metrics (length, number of edits, number of incoming links from other articles, }, added-at = {2015-02-26T14:13:26.000+0100}, author = {Samoilenko, Anna and Yasseri, Taha}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2c86b8f9a9c07e8a07612f4ff7642023a/jaeschke}, description = {The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics - Springer}, doi = {10.1140/epjds20}, eid = {1}, interhash = {f35803b1b990f3e08a1c7cd740190c2a}, intrahash = {c86b8f9a9c07e8a07612f4ff7642023a}, journal = {EPJ Data Science}, keywords = {academic gaw scientometrics wikipedia}, language = {English}, number = 1, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, timestamp = {2015-02-26T14:13:26.000+0100}, title = {The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjds20}, volume = 3, year = 2014 }