"The Sum of All Human Knowledge": A Systematic Review of Scholarly Research on the Content of Wikipedia

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 219-245

  Mesgari, Mostafa ^a   Okoli, Chitu ^a   Mehdi, Mohamad ^b   Nielsen, Finn Årup ^c   Lanamäki, Arto ^d  

^a John Molson School of Business   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

encyclopedias; quality; reliability

Indexed keywords

IMAGE QUALITY; RELIABILITY;

DATA-GATHERING METHODS; DATA-SOURCE; ENCYCLOPEDIAS; HUMAN KNOWLEDGE; RESEARCH DESIGNS; RESEARCH TRENDS; SCHOLARLY RESEARCH; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84929677305     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23172     Document Type: Review

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