%0 Conference Paper %1 Shuai:2013:CSA:2467696.2467746 %A Shuai, Xin %A Jiang, Zhuoren %A Liu, Xiaozhong %A Bollen, Johan %B Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries %C New York, NY, USA %D 2013 %I ACM %K altmetrics phd phdproposal scieRank scientometric wikipedia %P 25--28 %R 10.1145/2467696.2467746 %T A Comparative Study of Academic and Wikipedia Ranking %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2467696.2467746 %X In addition to its broad popularity Wikipedia is also widely used for scholarly purposes. Many Wikipedia pages pertain to academic papers, scholars and topics providing a rich ecology for scholarly uses. Scholarly references and mentions on Wikipedia may thus shape the "societal impact" of a certain scholarly communication item, but it is not clear whether they shape actual äcademic impact". In this paper we compare the impact of papers, scholars, and topics according to two different measures, namely scholarly citations and Wikipedia mentions. Our results show that academic and Wikipedia impact are positively correlated. Papers, authors, and topics that are mentioned on Wikipedia have higher academic impact than those are not mentioned. Our findings validate the hypothesis that Wikipedia can help assess the impact of scholarly publications and underpin relevance indicators for scholarly retrieval or recommendation systems. %@ 978-1-4503-2077-1

@inproceedings{Shuai:2013:CSA:2467696.2467746, abstract = {In addition to its broad popularity Wikipedia is also widely used for scholarly purposes. Many Wikipedia pages pertain to academic papers, scholars and topics providing a rich ecology for scholarly uses. Scholarly references and mentions on Wikipedia may thus shape the "societal impact" of a certain scholarly communication item, but it is not clear whether they shape actual "academic impact". In this paper we compare the impact of papers, scholars, and topics according to two different measures, namely scholarly citations and Wikipedia mentions. Our results show that academic and Wikipedia impact are positively correlated. Papers, authors, and topics that are mentioned on Wikipedia have higher academic impact than those are not mentioned. Our findings validate the hypothesis that Wikipedia can help assess the impact of scholarly publications and underpin relevance indicators for scholarly retrieval or recommendation systems.}, acmid = {2467746}, added-at = {2014-12-01T22:02:44.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Shuai, Xin and Jiang, Zhuoren and Liu, Xiaozhong and Bollen, Johan}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2a6d98eb2871df4d13c7e692ccca01292/asmelash}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries}, description = {A comparative study of academic and Wikipedia ranking}, doi = {10.1145/2467696.2467746}, interhash = {fa23c5f9cd23f8d6ea81b5b4ac763852}, intrahash = {a6d98eb2871df4d13c7e692ccca01292}, isbn = {978-1-4503-2077-1}, keywords = {altmetrics phd phdproposal scieRank scientometric wikipedia}, location = {Indianapolis, Indiana, USA}, numpages = {4}, pages = {25--28}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {JCDL '13}, timestamp = {2015-11-19T23:05:01.000+0100}, title = {A Comparative Study of Academic and Wikipedia Ranking}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2467696.2467746}, year = 2013 }