Research Citations Building Trust in Wikipedia

arXiv - CS - Digital Libraries Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI:arxiv-2409.11948

Michael Taylor, Carlos Areia, Kath Burton, Charles Watkinson

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The use of Wikipedia citations in scholarly research has been the topic of much inquiry over the past decade. A cross-publisher study (Taylor & Francis and University of Michigan Press) convened by Digital Science was established in late 2022 to explore author sentiment towards Wikipedia as a trusted source of information. A short survey was designed to poll published authors about views and uses of Wikipedia and explore how the increased addition of research citations in Wikipedia might help combat misinformation in the context of increasing public engagement with and access to validated research sources. With 21,854 surveys sent, targeting 40,402 papers mentioned in Wikipedia, a total of 750 complete surveys from 60 countries were included in this analysis. In general, responses revealed a positive sentiment towards research citation in Wikipedia and the researcher engagement practices. However, our sub analysis revealed statistically significant differences when comparison articles vs books and across disciplines, but not open vs closed access. This study will open the door to further research and deepen our understanding of authors perceived trustworthiness of the representation of their research in Wikipedia.

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过去十年来，维基百科在学术研究中的引文使用一直是备受关注的话题。2022 年末，数字科学（Digital Science）召集了一项跨出版商（泰勒-弗朗西斯出版社和密歇根大学出版社）的研究，以探讨作者对维基百科作为可信信息源的看法。我们设计了一项简短的调查，以调查发表论文的作者对维基百科的看法和使用情况，并探讨在维基百科中增加研究引文如何有助于在提高公众参与度和对有效研究来源的访问量的背景下打击错误信息。然而，我们的子分析表明，文章与书籍的比较以及不同学科之间的比较在统计学上存在显著差异，但开放存取与封闭存取之间的比较则不存在显著差异。这项研究将为进一步的研究打开大门，并加深我们对作者认为其研究在维基百科中的可信度的理解。

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