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Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
FEBS J. 2021 Jul;288(14):4242-4248. doi: 10.1111/febs.15608. Epub 2020 Nov 19.
Wikipedia is a widely used online reference work which cites hundreds of thousands of scientific articles across its entries. The quality of these citations has not been previously measured, and such measurements have a bearing on the reliability and quality of the scientific portions of this reference work. Using a novel technique, a massive database of qualitatively described citations, and machine learning algorithms, we analyzed 1 923 575 Wikipedia articles which cited a total of 824 298 scientific articles in our database and found that most scientific articles cited by Wikipedia articles are uncited or untested by subsequent studies, and the remainder show a wide variability in contradicting or supporting evidence. Additionally, we analyzed 51 804 643 scientific articles from journals indexed in the Web of Science and found that similarly most were uncited or untested by subsequent studies, while the remainder show a wide variability in contradicting or supporting evidence.
维基百科是一个广泛使用的在线参考作品，其条目引用了数十万篇科学文章。这些引文的质量以前没有被测量过，而这些测量结果对这个参考作品的科学部分的可靠性和质量有影响。使用一种新的技术、一个大量定性描述引文的数据库和机器学习算法，我们分析了 1923575 篇引用了我们数据库中 824298 篇科学文章的维基百科文章，发现大多数被维基百科文章引用的科学文章没有被后来的研究引用或验证，其余的则显示出相互矛盾或支持证据的广泛变化。此外，我们还分析了来自 Web of Science 索引的期刊中的 51804643 篇科学文章，发现类似地，大多数文章没有被后来的研究引用或验证，而其余的则显示出相互矛盾或支持证据的广泛变化。
