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      Science through Wikipedia: A novel representation of open knowledge through co-citation networks

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          This study provides an overview of science from the Wikipedia perspective. A methodology has been established for the analysis of how Wikipedia editors regard science through their references to scientific papers. The method of co-citation has been adapted to this context in order to generate Pathfinder networks (PFNET) that highlight the most relevant scientific journals and categories, and their interactions in order to find out how scientific literature is consumed through this open encyclopaedia. In addition to this, their obsolescence has been studied through Price index. A total of 1 433 457 references available at Altmetric.com have been initially taken into account. After pre-processing and linking them to the data from Elsevier's CiteScore Metrics the sample was reduced to 847 512 references made by 193 802 Wikipedia articles to 598 746 scientific articles belonging to 14 149 journals indexed in Scopus. As highlighted results we found a significative presence of “Medicine” and “Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology” papers and that the most important journals are multidisciplinary in nature, suggesting also that high-impact factor journals were more likely to be cited. Furthermore, only 13.44% of Wikipedia citations are to Open Access journals.

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                Contributors
                Role: Data curationRole: SoftwareRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – original draft
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Supervision
                Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: Project administrationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
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                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
                plos
                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                10 February 2020
                2020
                : 15
                : 2
                : e0228713
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Medialab UGR, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
                [2 ] Department of Information and Communication, University of Granada, Faculty of Communication and Documentation, Granada, Spain
                [3 ] EC3metrics spin off, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
                [4 ] Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
                [5 ] Department of Accountancy and Finance, University of Granada, Faculty of Economics and Business, Granada, Spain
                Universitat de Barcelona, SPAIN
                Author notes

                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

                ‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9437-8757
                http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8790-3314
                Article
                PONE-D-19-25486
                10.1371/journal.pone.0228713
                7010282
                32040488
                2d866b85-57a1-4296-b79b-e97af4cc46f4
                © 2020 Arroyo-Machado et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 10 September 2019
                : 21 January 2020
                Page count
                Figures: 11, Tables: 0, Pages: 20
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100007406, Fundación BBVA;
                Award ID: Knowmetrics: knowledge evaluation in digital society
                Award Recipient :
                This study has been possible thanks to financial support from “Knowmetrics: knowledge evaluation in digital society", a project funded by scientific research team grants from the BBVA Foundation, 2016, and the grant TIN2016-75850-R from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness with FEDER funds.
                Categories
                Research Article
                Social Sciences
                Sociology
                Communications
                Mass Media
                Encyclopedias
                Online Encyclopedias
                Research and Analysis Methods
                Research Assessment
                Citation Analysis
                Medicine and Health Sciences
                Research and Analysis Methods
                Scientific Publishing
                Research and Analysis Methods
                Research Assessment
                Altmetrics
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Biochemistry
                Social Sciences
                Biology and Life Sciences
                Molecular Biology
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                The data underlying the results presented in the study are available from Altmetric.com and Elsevier's CiteScore Metrics.

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