Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in Wikipedia

Clauson, Kevin A.; Polen, Hyla H; Boulos, Maged N. Kamel; Dzenowagis, Joan

doi:10.1345/aph.1l474

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“…Wikipedia is apparently less credible than some other online reference resources (Kubiszewski et al 2011;Rector 2008) and seems to provide inaccurate, incomplete and poorly referenced information for some topics (Clauson et al 2008;Lavsa et al 2011). Its quality also seems to vary between language editions (see, for instance, Cabrera-Hernández 2013).…”

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Can alternative indicators overcome language biases in citation counts? A comparison of Spanish and UK research

Mas-Bleda

2016

Scientometrics

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This study compares Spanish and UK research in eight subject fields using a range of bibliometric and social media indicators. For each field, lists of Spanish and UK journal articles published in the year 2012 and their citation counts were extracted from Scopus. The software Webometric Analyst was then used to extract a range of altmetrics for these articles, including patent citations, online presentation mentions, online course syllabus mentions, Wikipedia mentions and Mendeley reader counts and Altmetric.com was used to extract Twitter mentions. Results show that Mendeley is the altmetric source with the highest coverage, with 80% of sampled articles having one or more Mendeley readers, followed by Twitter (34%). The coverage of the remaining sources was lower than 3%. All of the indicators checked either have too little data or increase the overall difference between Spain and the UK and so none can be suggested as alternatives to reduce the bias against Spain in traditional citation indexes.

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Section: Wikipedia Mentionsmentioning

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Can alternative indicators overcome language biases in citation counts? A comparison of Spanish and UK research

Mas-Bleda

2016

Scientometrics

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“…11 Another of the most obvious concerns is that someone may vandalize a wiki by posting inaccurate information (either intentionally or unintentionally). An example is the deletion of important information by employees of drug companies in order to minimize the perceived risk of their drugs.…”

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Web 2.0 and Pharmacy Education

Cain¹,

Fox²

2009

Am J Pharm Educ

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New types of social Internet applications (often referred to as Web 2.0) are becoming increasingly popular within higher education environments. Although developed primarily for entertainment and social communication within the general population, applications such as blogs, social video sites, and virtual worlds are being adopted by higher education institutions. These newer applications differ from standard Web sites in that they involve the users in creating and distributing information, hence effectively changing how the Web is used for knowledge generation and dispersion. Although Web 2.0 applications offer exciting new ways to teach, they should not be the core of instructional planning, but rather selected only after learning objectives and instructional strategies have been identified. This paper provides an overview of prominent Web 2.0 applications, explains how they are being used within education environments, and elaborates on some of the potential opportunities and challenges that these applications present.

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“…Similarly, in [11] a research team analyzed 80 Wikipedia articles on drugs. They found that the articles often missed important information and a small number of factual errors.…”

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“…In most prior work, the "golden standard" for information quality is the evaluations of experts [31,7,5,11]. This standard has a clear advantage: it is as objective, as it gets.…”

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On measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles

Calzada

Dekhtyar

2010

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Information Credibility

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This paper discusses an approach to modeling and measuring information quality of Wikipedia articles. The approach is based on the idea that the quality of Wikipedia articles with distinctly different profiles needs to be measured using different information quality models. We report on our initial study, which involved two categories of Wikipedia articles: "stabilized" (those, whose content has not undergone major changes for a significant period of time) and "controversial" (the articles, which have undergone vandalism, revert wars, or whose content is subject to internal discussions between Wikipedia editors). We present simple information quality models and compare their performance on a subset of Wikipedia articles with the information quality evaluations provided by human users. Our experiment shows, that using special-purpose models for information quality captures user sentiment about Wikipedia articles better than using a single model for both categories of articles.

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Scope, Completeness, and Accuracy of Drug Information in Wikipedia

Abstract: Wikipedia has a more narrow scope, is less complete, and has more errors of omission than the comparator database. Wikipedia may be a useful point of engagement for consumers, but is not authoritative and should only be a supplemental source of drug information.

Cited by 170 publications

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Can alternative indicators overcome language biases in citation counts? A comparison of Spanish and UK research

Can alternative indicators overcome language biases in citation counts? A comparison of Spanish and UK research

Web 2.0 and Pharmacy Education

On measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles

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