Scientific citations in Wikipedia

Scientific citations in Wikipedia

The Internet-based encyclopædia Wikipedia has grown to become one of the most visited web-sites on the Internet. However, critics have questioned the quality of entries, and an empirical study has shown Wikipedia to contain errors in a 2005 sample of science entries. Biased coverage and lack of sources are among the “Wikipedia risks”. The present work describes a simple assessment of these aspe...

Clustering of scientific citations in Wikipedia

The instances of templates in Wikipedia form an interesting data set of structured information. Here I focus on the cite journal template that is primarily used for citation to articles in scientific journals. These citations can be extracted and analyzed: Non-negative matrix factorization is performed on a (article × journal) matrix resulting in a soft clustering of Wikipedia articles and scie...

Participation and Scientific Collaboration in Persian Wikipedia

Background and Aim: This research studies the effective participation and scientific collaboration in Persian Wikipedia, from 2003-2012.  Method: The library method has been used. Also, considering the objectives and the nature of subject, the research method is a descriptive-applied and during its implementation scientometric technique has been used. Excel and SPSS softwares have been used for...

Sentiment analysis of scientific citations

Some figures in this document are best viewed in colour. If you received a black-and-white copy, please consult the online version if necessary. Summary While there has been growing interest in the field of sentiment analysis for different text genres in the past few years, relatively less emphasis has been placed on extraction of opinions from scientific literature, more specifically, citation...

Annotation Guidelines for Citations in Scientific Literature