Scientific contributions and citations

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...

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...

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...

Annotation Guidelines for Citations in Scientific Literature

An ethnic bias in scientific citations

Recent experimental findings of subtle forms of prejudice prompted this search for a similar phenomenon outside the laboratory. In Study 1. with a sample of more than 12 000 citations by North American social scientists. names of both citing and cited authors were classified as Jewish, nonJewish, or other Author’s name category was associated with 41 per cent greater odds of citing an author fr...