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Citation of Wikipedia in research papers has been known to result in a failing grade. [2] [3] [4] This does not mean Wikipedia is not useful: Wikipedia articles contain many links to newspaper articles, books (often with ISBN numbers), radio programming, television shows, Web
These results also yield important knowledge applicable to other open content communities. In addition to driving scholarly knowledge of such systems, this work can also give results that can improve Wikipedia itself. Much valuable research cannot be done without Wikipedia community members who volunteer to participate in studies.
Academic authorship of journal articles, books, and other original works is a means by which academics communicate the results of their scholarly work, establish priority for their discoveries, and build their reputation among their peers.
I'd argue that the paper about the article for climate change deserves to be further discussed (maybe in a "Disinformation report"), given how important the subject is for our planet, and given the impact Wikipedia can have on people's perception of a certain matter, for better or for worse - as the OceanGate disaster taught us.
A 2012 study covering 32 language editions analysed circadian activity of editors and concluded that the shares of contributions to English Wikipedia, from North America and Europe-Far East-Australia are almost equal, whereas this increases to 75% of European-Far Eastern-Australian contributions for the Simple English Wikipedia. The research ...
The need for affiliation (N-Affil) is a term which describes a person's need to feel a sense of involvement and "belonging" within a social group.The term was popularized by David McClelland, whose thinking was strongly influenced by the pioneering work of Henry Murray, who first identified underlying psychological human needs and motivational processes in 1938.
Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-10-05/In the news#Wikipedia graph used in UN climate report Michael R. Nelson, "Building an Open Cloud", Science 324(5935):1656-1657 cites Browser wars Richard Hartley and Fredrik Kahl, "Global Optimization through Rotation Space Search", International Journal of Computer Vision cites Quaternion , Sphere and ...
Meta-research is the study of research through the use of research methods. Also known as "research on research", it aims to reduce waste and increase the quality of research in all fields. Meta-research concerns itself with the detection of bias, methodological flaws, and other errors and inefficiencies.