The distorted mirror of wikipedia: A quantitative analysis of wikipedia coverage of academics

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-11

  Samoilenko, Anna ^a   Yasseri, Taha ^b  

^a University of Oxford ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; Bibliometrics; Crowd scouring; H index; Online reputation; Peer production; Scientometrics; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ALTMETRICS; BIBLIOMETRICS; H INDICES; ONLINE REPUTATION; PEER PRODUCTION; SCIENTOMETRICS; WIKIPEDIA;

EID: 84924407716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds20     Document Type: Article

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