Wikipedia references in PLOS corpus

Presentation given by Jennifer Lin at Altmetrics14 conference in Bloomington, IN.

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1. Wikipedia references in
   PLOS corpus
   altmetrics14
   Jennifer Lin & Martin Fenner
   

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2. why Wikipedia matters
   

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3. Proportion of PLOS articles mentioned across data sources
   4,554 articles
   

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4. List of top 10 most Wikipedia-referenced PLOS articles
   ➢ The “Island Rule” and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence
   ➢ The Tree of Life and a New Classification of Bony Fishes
   ➢ New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental
   Dinosaur Endemism
   ➢ Identification of Novel Functional Inhibitors of Acid Sphingomyelinase
   ➢ New Basal Iguanodonts from the Cedar Mountain Formation of Utah and
   the Evolution of Thumb-Spiked Dinosaurs
   ➢ Tyrant Dinosaur Evolution Tracks the Rise and Fall of Late Cretaceous
   Oceans
   ➢ A New Basal Sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del
   Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina
   ➢ Ecological Guild Evolution and the Discovery of the World's Smallest
   Vertebrate
   ➢ New Mid-Cretaceous (Latest Albian) Dinosaurs from Winton, Queensland,
   Australia
   ➢ Multigene Phylogeny of Choanozoa and the Origin of Animals
   1249 references, 541 in Vietnamese pages
   

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5. Subject areas for 25 PLOS papers with highest Wikipedia
   references
   

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6. Proportion of articles with Wikipedia references by Journal
   

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7. Proportion of articles with Wikipedia references by Year in PLOS
   Biology
   

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8. Proportion of Wikipedia pages mentioning PLOS articles in
   largest Wikipedias
   

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9. Correlation between Wikipedia active users and number of
   Wikipedia pages mentioning PLOS articles
   Active Wiki users
   Wiki
   pages
   r2=0.978
   

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10. Proportion of articles covered by source
    Wikipedia Facebook
    Mendeley
    

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11. altmetricsconference.com
    

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