Wikipedia and medicine: Quantifying readership, editors, and the significance of natural language

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Heilman, James M ^a   West, Andrew G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VeriSign Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer health information; Cooperative behavior; Health information systems; Information networks; Information science; Information sharing; Internet; Web 2.0

Indexed keywords

BOOK; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MEDICINE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; UTILIZATION;

CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; ENCYCLOPEDIAS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MEDICINE;

EID: 84929675519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4069     Document Type: Article

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