Main studies on the bibliographic references included in Wikipedia pages
| Reference . | Type . | Application . | Data . | Methodological approach . | Language edition . | Topic analyzed . |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mühlhauser and Oser (Mühlhauser & Oser, 2008) | Qualitative | Content and quality analysis | – | Check list | German | Health care |
| Candelario et al. (Candelario et al., 2017) | Content and quality analysis | 33 pages | Scoring system | English | Medication | |
| Kaffee and Elsahar (Kaffee & Elsahar, 2021) | Analyze the editors’ citation process | – | Survey and interviews | Multilingual | Multidisciplinary | |
| Nielsen (Nielsen, 2007) | Quantitative | Analyze citation patterns | 30,368 citations | Descriptive statistics | English | Multidisciplinary |
| Kousha and Thelwall (Kousha & Thelwall, 2017) | Evaluate the impact of references | 36,191 citations | Descriptive statistics | Multilingual | Multidisciplinary | |
| Lewoniewski et al. (Lewoniewski, Węcel, & Abramowicz, 2017) | References coverage across languages | 6.8 million pages 41 million citations | Descriptive statistics | Multilingual | Multidisciplinary | |
| Maggio et al. (Maggio, Willinsky et al., 2017) | Analyze citation patterns | 229,857 pages 1,049,025 citations | Descriptive statistics | English | Medicine | |
| Pooladian and Borrego (Pooladian & Borrego, 2017) | Evaluate the impact of references | 982 citations | Descriptive analysis | Multilingual | Multidisciplinary | |
| Jemielniak et al. (Jemielniak, Masukume, & Wilamowski, 2019) | Rank journals by citations | 11,325 pages 137,889 citations | Citation analysis | English | Medicine | |
| Torres-Salinas et al. (Torres-Salinas, Romero-Frías, & Arroyo-Machado, 2019) | Mapping of knowledge structure | 25,555 pages 41,655 citations | Cocitation analysis | English | Arts & Humanities | |
| Arroyo-Machado et al. (Arroyo-Machado et al., 2020) | Mapping of knowledge structure | 193,802 pages 847,512 citations | Cocitation analysis | English | Multidisciplinary | |
| Colavizza (Colavizza, 2020) | Publications coverage | 3,083 ref. pub. | Topic modeling and regression analysis | English | COVID-19 | |
| Nicholson et al. (Nicholson, Uppala et al., 2021) | Reviewing citation quality | 1,923,575 pages 824,298 ref. pub. | Classification modeling | English | Multidisciplinary | |
| Singh et al. (Singh et al., 2020) | Data set creation | 4 million citations | Text mining | English | Multidisciplinary | |
| Zagorova et al. (Zagorova et al., 2022) | Data set creation | 6,073,708 pages 55 million citations | Text mining | English | Multidisciplinary |
| Reference . | Type . | Application . | Data . | Methodological approach . | Language edition . | Topic analyzed . |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mühlhauser and Oser (Mühlhauser & Oser, 2008) | Qualitative | Content and quality analysis | – | Check list | German | Health care |
| Candelario et al. (Candelario et al., 2017) | Content and quality analysis | 33 pages | Scoring system | English | Medication | |
| Kaffee and Elsahar (Kaffee & Elsahar, 2021) | Analyze the editors’ citation process | – | Survey and interviews | Multilingual | Multidisciplinary | |
| Nielsen (Nielsen, 2007) | Quantitative | Analyze citation patterns | 30,368 citations | Descriptive statistics | English | Multidisciplinary |
| Kousha and Thelwall (Kousha & Thelwall, 2017) | Evaluate the impact of references | 36,191 citations | Descriptive statistics | Multilingual | Multidisciplinary | |
| Lewoniewski et al. (Lewoniewski, Węcel, & Abramowicz, 2017) | References coverage across languages | 6.8 million pages 41 million citations | Descriptive statistics | Multilingual | Multidisciplinary | |
| Maggio et al. (Maggio, Willinsky et al., 2017) | Analyze citation patterns | 229,857 pages 1,049,025 citations | Descriptive statistics | English | Medicine | |
| Pooladian and Borrego (Pooladian & Borrego, 2017) | Evaluate the impact of references | 982 citations | Descriptive analysis | Multilingual | Multidisciplinary | |
| Jemielniak et al. (Jemielniak, Masukume, & Wilamowski, 2019) | Rank journals by citations | 11,325 pages 137,889 citations | Citation analysis | English | Medicine | |
| Torres-Salinas et al. (Torres-Salinas, Romero-Frías, & Arroyo-Machado, 2019) | Mapping of knowledge structure | 25,555 pages 41,655 citations | Cocitation analysis | English | Arts & Humanities | |
| Arroyo-Machado et al. (Arroyo-Machado et al., 2020) | Mapping of knowledge structure | 193,802 pages 847,512 citations | Cocitation analysis | English | Multidisciplinary | |
| Colavizza (Colavizza, 2020) | Publications coverage | 3,083 ref. pub. | Topic modeling and regression analysis | English | COVID-19 | |
| Nicholson et al. (Nicholson, Uppala et al., 2021) | Reviewing citation quality | 1,923,575 pages 824,298 ref. pub. | Classification modeling | English | Multidisciplinary | |
| Singh et al. (Singh et al., 2020) | Data set creation | 4 million citations | Text mining | English | Multidisciplinary | |
| Zagorova et al. (Zagorova et al., 2022) | Data set creation | 6,073,708 pages 55 million citations | Text mining | English | Multidisciplinary |