Improving wikipedia's credibility: References and citations in a sample of history articles

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 715-722

  Luyt, Brendan ^a   Tan, Daniel ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC JOURNAL; NEWS MEDIA; SOCIAL CONTEXT; TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM; US GOVERNMENT; VERIFIABILITY; WIKIPEDIA;

WEBSITES;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 77949836763     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21304     Document Type: Article

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