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This is a list of academic articles related to the coverage of health and medical topics on Wikipedia. For general academic articles see Academic studies of Wikipedia. For academic studies about the use of Wikipedia in education, see Academic studies of Wikipedia in education. For popular media coverage of Wikipedia's medical content see the popular media list.

Summaries, literature reviews of studies on Wikipedia's medical content[edit]

Smith DA (2020-02-18). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PLOS ONE. 15 (2): e0228786. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1528786S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786. PMC 7028268. PMID 32069322.
Maggio LA, Willinsky JM, Costello JA, Skinner NA, Martin PC, Dawson JE (December 2020). "Integrating Wikipedia editing into health professions education: a curricular inventory and review of the literature". Perspectives on Medical Education. 9 (6): 333–342. doi:10.1007/s40037-020-00620-1. PMC 7718341. PMID 33030643.
Santangelo, Omar Enzo; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Provenzano, Sandro (2022-10-29). "Wikipedia searches and the epidemiology of infectious diseases: A systematic review". Data & Knowledge Engineering. 142: 102093. doi:10.1016/j.datak.2022.102093. S2CID 252945115.
Alibudbud, Rowalt (2023-07-04). "Wikipedia page views for health research: a review". Frontiers in Big Data. 6. doi:10.3389/fdata.2023.1199060. ISSN 2624-909X. PMC 10353851. PMID 37469441.

COVID-19 pandemic and Wikipedia[edit]

Yang, Kunhao; Tanaka, Mikihito (2023-06-29). "Crowdsourcing Knowledge Production of COVID-19 Information on Japanese Wikipedia in the Face of Uncertainty: Empirical Analysis". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25: e45024. doi:10.2196/45024. ISSN 1438-8871. PMC 10365582. PMID 37384371.
Ciechanowski, Kaśmir; Jemielniak, Dariusz; Silczuk, Andrzej (2023-09-14). "Public interests in mental health topics in COVID-19: evidence from Wikipedia searches". Advances in Mental Health: 1–22. doi:10.1080/18387357.2023.2253936. ISSN 1838-7357. S2CID 261921528.
Hu, Bei (2023-11-23). "Negotiation, power and ethics in online collaborative translation: translation of "COVID-19" by Wikipedia translator-editors". The Translator: 1–18. doi:10.1080/13556509.2023.2278224. ISSN 1355-6509. S2CID 265420073.
Avieson, Bunty (2022-11-07). "Editors, sources and the 'go back' button: Wikipedia's framework for beating misinformation". First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v27i11.12754. ISSN 1396-0466.
Benjakob O, Aviram R, Sobel JA (January 2022). "Citation needed? Wikipedia bibliometrics during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic". GigaScience. 11 (1): 2021.03.01.433379. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab095. PMC 8756189. PMID 35022700.
Rasberry L, Mietchen D (2021-07-01). "Wikipedia for multilingual COVID-19 vaccine education at scale". Research Ideas and Outcomes. 7: e70042. doi:10.3897/rio.7.e70042. ISSN 2367-7163. S2CID 240529240.
Rutovic S, Fumagalli AI, Lutsenko I, Corea F (February 2021). "Public Interest in Neurological Diseases on Wikipedia during Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic". Neurology International. 13 (1): 59–63. doi:10.3390/neurolint13010006. PMC 7931017. PMID 33578628.
Ribeiro MH, Gligorić K, Peyrard M, Lemmerich F, Strohmaier M, West R (2021-05-22). "Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 15: 208–219. arXiv:2005.08505. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18054. ISSN 2334-0770. S2CID 222302637.
Roukema BF (2021-08-27). "Anti-clustering in the national SARS-CoV-2 daily infection counts". PeerJ. 9: e11856. arXiv:2007.11779. doi:10.7717/peerj.11856. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8404575. PMID 34532156. Zenodo: 5262698.
Colavizza G (1 December 2020). "COVID-19 research in Wikipedia". Quantitative Science Studies. 1 (4): 1349–1380. doi:10.1162/qss_a_00080. ISSN 2641-3337. S2CID 220667130.
Potapov, A S; Alexandrova, E G; Yudina, E V; Ziganshina, L E (2021-08-08). "Improving the Russian-language Wikipedia articles on medicines using new knowledge Cochrane". Kazan Medical Journal. 102 (4): 459–473. doi:10.17816/KMJ2021-459. ISSN 2587-9359.
Gozzi N, Tizzani M, Starnini M, Ciulla F, Paolotti D, Panisson A, Perra N (October 2020). "Collective Response to Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Reddit and Wikipedia: Mixed-Methods Analysis". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 22 (10): e21597. doi:10.2196/21597. PMC 7553788. PMID 32960775.
Keegan BC, Tan C (2020-06-15). "A Quantitative Portrait of Wikipedia's High-Tempo Collaborations during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic". arXiv:2006.08899 [cs.SI].

By year[edit]

2023[edit]

Smith, Denise (2023-12-01). "Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation". Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada. 44 (3). doi:10.29173/jchla29688. ISSN 1708-6892.
Konieczny, Piotr (2023). "Where experts and amateurs meet: the ideological hobby of medical volunteering on Wikipedia". WikiJournal of Medicine. 10 (1): 5. doi:10.15347/wjm/2023.005.
Ciechanowski, Kaśmir; Jemielniak, Dariusz; Silczuk, Andrzej (2023-09-14). "Public interests in mental health topics in COVID-19: evidence from Wikipedia searches". Advances in Mental Health: 1–22. doi:10.1080/18387357.2023.2253936. ISSN 1838-7357. S2CID 261921528.
Yang, Kunhao; Tanaka, Mikihito (2023-06-29). "Crowdsourcing Knowledge Production of COVID-19 Information on Japanese Wikipedia in the Face of Uncertainty: Empirical Analysis". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 25: e45024. doi:10.2196/45024. ISSN 1438-8871. PMC 10365582. PMID 37384371.
Konieczny, Piotr (2023). "Where experts and amateurs meet: the ideological hobby of medical volunteering on Wikipedia". WikiJournal of Medicine. 10 (1): 5. doi:10.15347/wjm/2023.005.
Smith, Denise A. (2023-08-12). ""I'm comfortable with it": User stories of health information on Wikipedia". First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v28i8.12897. ISSN 1396-0466.
Smith, Denise A. (2023-04-03). "It's Time to Recognize Wikipedia as a Health Information Resource". Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 27 (2): 210–220. doi:10.1080/15398285.2023.2211498. hdl:10464/17862. ISSN 1539-8285. S2CID 258910905.
Azer, Samy A.; Alsharafi, Aya A. (2023-06-01). "Can pharmacy students use Wikipedia as a learning resource? Critical assessment of articles on chemotherapeutic drugs". Advances in Physiology Education. 47 (2): 333–345. doi:10.1152/advan.00212.2022. ISSN 1043-4046. PMID 36951631.
Alibudbud, Rowalt (2023-07-04). "Wikipedia page views for health research: a review". Frontiers in Big Data. 6. doi:10.3389/fdata.2023.1199060. ISSN 2624-909X. PMC 10353851. PMID 37469441.
Montilha, Alexandre; Morata, Thais C.; Flor, Daiana A.; Machado, Maria Aparecida; Menegon, Fabricio A.; Zucki, Fernanda (2023-04-06). "The Promotion of Hearing Health through Wikipedia Campaigns: Article Quality and Reach Assessment". Healthcare. 11 (11): 1572. doi:10.3390/healthcare11111572. ISSN 2078-2489. PMC 10252918. PMID 37297712.
Hu, Bei (2023-11-23). "Negotiation, power and ethics in online collaborative translation: translation of "COVID-19" by Wikipedia translator-editors". The Translator: 1–18. doi:10.1080/13556509.2023.2278224. ISSN 1355-6509. S2CID 265420073.
Masoni, Marco; Di Grazia, Omar; Guelfi, Maria Renza (2023-12-31). "Updating Wikipedia in the School of Dentistry of the University of Florence". Form@re - Open Journal per la Formazione in Rete. 23 (3): 169–185. doi:10.36253/form-14386. ISSN 1825-7321.

2022[edit]

Santangelo, Omar Enzo; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Provenzano, Sandro (2022-10-29). "Wikipedia searches and the epidemiology of infectious diseases: A systematic review". Data & Knowledge Engineering. 142: 102093. doi:10.1016/j.datak.2022.102093. S2CID 252945115.
Avieson, Bunty (2022-11-07). "Editors, sources and the 'go back' button: Wikipedia's framework for beating misinformation". First Monday. doi:10.5210/fm.v27i11.12754. ISSN 1396-0466.
Epstein, Helen-Ann Brown (2022-04-03). "Health Information on Wikipedia: Can You Trust It?". Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 26 (2): 218–224. doi:10.1080/15398285.2022.2069391. ISSN 1539-8285. S2CID 249680137.
Mostafa, Mohamed M. (2022-12-05). "Two decades of Wikipedia research: a PubMed bibliometric network analysis". Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication. 71 (8/9): 947–971. doi:10.1108/GKMC-03-2021-0056. ISSN 2514-9342. S2CID 240489525.
Alibudbud, Rowalt; Cleofas, Jerome V. (2022-11-08). "Global utilization of online information for substance use disorder: An infodemiological study of Google and Wikipedia from 2004 to 2022". Journal of Nursing Scholarship. 55 (3): 665–680. doi:10.1111/jnu.12844. ISSN 1527-6546. PMID 36345730. S2CID 253396785.
Luo, Jianchen; Ma, Jing; Xu, Liangliang; Wang, Peng; Zhang, Ming; Xu, Mingqing (October 2022). "Assessment of the digestive system malignancy information in Wikipedia and Baidu Encyclopedia: a longitudinal study". Annals of Translational Medicine. 10 (20): 1112. doi:10.21037/atm-22-4435. PMC 9652516. PMID 36388827.
Ciechanowski, Kaśmir; Banasik-Jemielniak, Natalia; Jemielniak, Dariusz (2022-10-12). "What's hot and what's not in lay psychology: Wikipedia's most-viewed articles". Current Psychology: 1–13. doi:10.1007/s12144-022-03826-0. ISSN 1936-4733. PMC 9553632. PMID 36248218.
Nainar, S. M. Hashim (2022-06-24). "Dental student editing of Wikipedia articles". Journal of Dental Education. 87: 1834–1835. doi:10.1002/jdd.13032. ISSN 1930-7837. PMID 35748156. S2CID 249988898.
Moscovici, Khen; Arie, Gal Ben; Shelef, Ilan; Kalet, Adina (2022-05-16). "Creating Wikipedia articles on health and technology topics can empower the writers and benefit the community". BMC Medical Education. 22 (1): 373. doi:10.1186/s12909-022-03389-5. ISSN 1472-6920. PMC 9109402. PMID 35578333.
Gordejeva, Jelizaveta; Zowalla, Richard; Pobiruchin, Monika; Wiesner, Martin (2022-05-16). "Readability of English, German, and Russian Disease-Related Wikipedia Pages: Automated Computational Analysis". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 24 (5): e36835. doi:10.2196/36835. PMC 9152717. PMID 35576562.
Mondia, Mark Willy L.; Espiritu, Adrian I.; Jamora, Roland Dominic G. (2022). "Brain Tumor Infodemiology: Worldwide Online Health-Seeking Behavior Using Google Trends and Wikipedia Pageviews". Frontiers in Oncology. 12: 855534. doi:10.3389/fonc.2022.855534. ISSN 2234-943X. PMC 9061992. PMID 35515112.
Döring, Nicola; Lehmann, Stephan; Schumann-Doermer, Claudia (2022-06-01). "Verhütung in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia: Eine Inhalts- und Qualitätsanalyse" [Contraception in the German-language Wikipedia: a content and quality analysis]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz (in German). 65 (6): 706–717. doi:10.1007/s00103-022-03537-8. ISSN 1437-1588. PMC 9132820. PMID 35471607.
Kahili-Heede, Melissa K.; Patil, Uday; Hillgren, K. J.; Hishinuma, Earl; Kasuya, Richard (2022-04-01). "Library instruction and Wikipedia: investigating students' perceived information literacy, lifelong learning, and social responsibility through Wikipedia editing". Journal of the Medical Library Association: JMLA. 110 (2): 174–184. doi:10.5195/jmla.2022.1291. ISSN 1558-9439. PMC 9014945. PMID 35440913.
Okunoye, Babatunde; Ning, Shaoyang; Jemielniak, Dariusz (2022-03-11). "Searching for HIV and AIDS Health Information in South Africa, 2004-2019: Analysis of Google and Wikipedia Search Trends". JMIR Formative Research. 6 (3): e29819. doi:10.2196/29819. ISSN 2561-326X. PMC 8956998. PMID 35275080.
Benjakob O, Aviram R, Sobel JA (January 2022). "Citation needed? Wikipedia bibliometrics during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic". GigaScience. 11 (1): 2021.03.01.433379. doi:10.1093/gigascience/giab095. PMC 8756189. PMID 35022700.
Huang Y, Sundar SS (January 2022). "Do We Trust the Crowd? Effects of Crowdsourcing on Perceived Credibility of Online Health Information". Health Communication. 37 (1): 93–102. doi:10.1080/10410236.2020.1824662. PMID 32962437. S2CID 221864576.
Marquez-Romero JM, Lee Á, Soto-Cabrera E, Hernández-Curiel BC, Prado-Aguilar CA (February 2022). "Content and Quality of Information about Stroke in Wikipedia across Multiple Languages". European Neurology. 85 (4): 308–312. doi:10.1159/000521938. PMID 35134804. S2CID 246677682.

2021[edit]

Ju B, Jung Y, Bourgeois JP (2021). "Seeking Health Information in Wikipedia and Readers' Satisfaction". Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 58 (1): 744–746. doi:10.1002/pra2.548. ISSN 2373-9231. S2CID 238748548.
Huisman M, Joye S, Biltereyst D (2021-09-10). "Health on Wikipedia: a qualitative study of the attitudes, perceptions, and use of Wikipedia as a source of health information by middle-aged and older adults". Information, Communication & Society. 24 (12): 1797–1813. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2020.1736125. ISSN 1369-118X. S2CID 216406771.
Tan L, Lai SM, Geres N, Innes NP, Radford JR, Revie G, et al. (July 2021). "Effectiveness of The Wikipedia Collaboration of Dental Schools' Training Programme: a new Paradigm for Teaching and Learning of Evidence-Based Dentistry". Community Dental Health. 39 (1): 22–26. doi:10.1922/CDH_00091Tan05. PMID 34351712. S2CID 236926978.
Mietchen D, Rasberry L, Morata T, Sadowski J, Novakovich J, Heilman J (2021-06-16). "Developing a scalable framework for partnerships between health agencies and the Wikimedia ecosystem". RIO - Research Ideas and Outcomes. 7: e68121. doi:10.3897/rio.7.e68121. ISSN 2367-7163. S2CID 236234158.
Smith DA (2021-01-01). "Wikipedia: an unexplored resource for understanding consumer health information behaviour in library and information science scholarship". Journal of Documentation. 78 (3): 696–708. doi:10.1108/JD-03-2021-0049. hdl:11375/26812. ISSN 0022-0418. S2CID 238688069.
Couto L, Lopes CT (2021-04-19). "Assessing the quality of health-related Wikipedia articles with generic and specific metrics". In Leskovec J, Grobelnik M, Najork M, Tang J, Zia L (eds.). Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021. Ljubljana Slovenia: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 640–647. doi:10.1145/3442442.3452355. ISBN 978-1-4503-8313-4. S2CID 233228008.
Rasberry L, Mietchen D (2021-07-01). "Wikipedia for multilingual COVID-19 vaccine education at scale". Research Ideas and Outcomes. 7: e70042. doi:10.3897/rio.7.e70042. ISSN 2367-7163. S2CID 240529240.
Rasberry L, Mietchen D (2021-03-25). "FAIR and open multilingual clinical trials in Wikidata and Wikipedia". Research Ideas and Outcomes. 7: e66490. doi:10.3897/rio.7.e66490. ISSN 2367-7163. S2CID 233626674.
Kim W, Wolfe SM, Zagona-Prizio C, Dellavalle RP (2021-02-07). "Skin of Color Representation on Wikipedia: Cross-sectional Analysis". JMIR Dermatology. 4 (2): e27802. doi:10.2196/27802. ISSN 2562-0959. PMC 10501522. PMID 37632806.
Aguilar-Morales K, Aguirre-Suarez G, Bowles B, Lee A, Lansingh VC (2021-10-28). Khanna RC (ed.). "Wikipedia, friend or foe regarding information on diabetic retinopathy? A content analysis in the world's leading 19 languages". PLOS ONE. 16 (10): e0258246. Bibcode:2021PLoSO..1658246A. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0258246. PMC 8553146. PMID 34710114.
Nucci, Daniele; Santangelo, Omar Enzo; Nardi, Mariateresa; Provenzano, Sandro; Gianfredi, Vincenza (20 October 2021). "Wikipedia, Google Trends and Diet: Assessment of Temporal Trends in the Internet Users' Searches in Italy before and during COVID-19 Pandemic". Nutrients. 13 (11): 3683. doi:10.3390/nu13113683. ISSN 2072-6643. PMC 8620684. PMID 34835939.
Sun F, Yang F, Zheng S (January 2021). "Evaluation of the Liver Disease Information in Baidu Encyclopedia and Wikipedia: Longitudinal Study". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23 (1): e17680. doi:10.2196/17680. PMC 7850904. PMID 33459597.
Mendes TB, Dawson J, Evenstein Sigalov S, Kleiman N, Hird K, Terenius O, et al. (September 2021). "Wikipedia in Health Professional Schools: from an Opponent to an Ally". Medical Science Educator. 31 (6): 2209–2216. doi:10.1007/s40670-021-01408-6. PMC 8480752. PMID 34608425.
Gianfredi V, Santangelo OE, Provenzano S (February 2021). "Correlation between flu and Wikipedia's pages visualization". Acta Bio-Medica. 92 (1): e2021056. doi:10.23750/abm.v92i1.9790. PMC 7975939. PMID 33682825.
Martin PC, Maggio L, Murray H, Willinsky JM (2021-09-24). "Enculturating a Community of Action (CoA): A qualitative study of health professions educators' perspectives on teaching with Wikipedia". bioRxiv. doi:10.1101/2021.09.22.461409. S2CID 237946021.
Ceballos DM, Herrick RF, Carreón T, Nguyen VT, Chu MT, Sadowski JP, et al. (1 October 2021). "Expanding Reach of Occupational Health Knowledge: Contributing Subject-Matter Expertise to Wikipedia as a Class Assignment". Inquiry. 58: 469580211035735. doi:10.1177/00469580211035735. PMC 8489755. PMID 34595964.
Couto L, Teixera Lopes C (2021-09-15). "Equal opportunities in the access to quality online health information? A multi-lingual study on Wikipedia". 17th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. Online Spain: ACM. pp. 1–13. doi:10.1145/3479986.3480000. ISBN 978-1-4503-8500-8. S2CID 238992827.
Banasik-Jemielniak N, Jemielniak D, Wilamowski M (2021-02-16). "Psychology and Wikipedia: Measuring Psychology Journals' Impact by Wikipedia Citations". Social Science Computer Review. 40 (3): 756–774. doi:10.1177/0894439321993836. ISSN 0894-4393. S2CID 233968639.
Byron MJ, Hughes JR (October 2021). "Wikipedia and Nicotine and Tobacco: Meeting People Where They Are". Nicotine & Tobacco Research. 23 (11): 1977–1979. doi:10.1093/ntr/ntab087. PMID 33955471.
De Toni G, Consonni C, Montresor A (2021-08-31). Rocha LM (ed.). "A general method for estimating the prevalence of influenza-like-symptoms with Wikipedia data". PLOS ONE. 16 (8): e0256858. arXiv:2010.14903. Bibcode:2021PLoSO..1656858D. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0256858. PMC 8407583. PMID 34464416.
Handler SJ, Eckhardt SE, Takashima Y, Jackson AM, Truong C, Yazdany T (December 2021). "Readability and quality of Wikipedia articles on pelvic floor disorders". International Urogynecology Journal. 32 (12): 3249–3258. doi:10.1007/s00192-021-04776-0. PMID 33797592. S2CID 232763492.
Chrzanowski J, Sołek J, Fendler W, Jemielniak D (April 2021). "Assessing Public Interest Based on Wikipedia's Most Visited Medical Articles During the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Search Trends Analysis". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 23 (4): e26331. doi:10.2196/26331. PMC 8049630. PMID 33667176.
Rubin JE (September 2021). "Writing for Wikipedia: An Exercise in Microbiology, Writing, Research, Communication, and Public Service". Journal of Veterinary Medical Education. 49 (6): 705–708. doi:10.3138/jvme-2021-0099. PMID 34570683. S2CID 238203119.
Rutovic S, Fumagalli AI, Lutsenko I, Corea F (February 2021). "Public Interest in Neurological Diseases on Wikipedia during Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic". Neurology International. 13 (1): 59–63. doi:10.3390/neurolint13010006. PMC 7931017. PMID 33578628.
Potapov, A S; Alexandrova, E G; Yudina, E V; Ziganshina, L E (2021-08-08). "Improving the Russian-language Wikipedia articles on medicines using new knowledge Cochrane". Kazan Medical Journal. 102 (4): 459–473. doi:10.17816/KMJ2021-459. ISSN 2587-9359.
Ribeiro MH, Gligorić K, Peyrard M, Lemmerich F, Strohmaier M, West R (2021-05-22). "Sudden Attention Shifts on Wikipedia During the COVID-19 Crisis". Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 15: 208–219. arXiv:2005.08505. doi:10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18054. ISSN 2334-0770. S2CID 222302637.
Provenzano S, Gianfredi V, Santangelo OE (March 2021). "Insight the data: Wikipedia's researches and real cases of arboviruses in Italy". Public Health. 192: 21–29. doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2020.12.010. PMID 33607517. S2CID 231969704.
Roukema BF (2021-08-27). "Anti-clustering in the national SARS-CoV-2 daily infection counts". PeerJ. 9: e11856. arXiv:2007.11779. doi:10.7717/peerj.11856. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8404575. PMID 34532156. Zenodo: 5262698.
Froldi G (2021). "Wikipedia in teaching "Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy" to Pharmacy students". In Gallo V (ed.). Wikipedia in Academia (PDF). Padova University Press. pp. 89–94. ISBN 9788869381980.

2020[edit]

Masukume G (2020-05-03). "Why and how medical schools, peer-reviewed journals, and research funders should promote Wikipedia editing". Studies in Higher Education. 45 (5): 984–989. doi:10.1080/03075079.2020.1749796. ISSN 0307-5079. S2CID 216432153.
Maggio LA, Steinberg RM, Piccardi T, Willinsky JM (March 2020). "Reader engagement with medical content on Wikipedia". eLife. 9: e52426. doi:10.7554/eLife.52426. PMC 7089765. PMID 32142406.
Colavizza G (1 December 2020). "COVID-19 research in Wikipedia". Quantitative Science Studies. 1 (4): 1349–1380. doi:10.1162/qss_a_00080. ISSN 2641-3337. S2CID 220667130.
Wang Y, Zhang J (2020-07-17). "Investigation of Women's Health on Wikipedia—A Temporal Analysis of Women's Health Topic". Informatics. 7 (3): 22. doi:10.3390/informatics7030022. ISSN 2227-9709.
Watson R (2020). "Writing for Wikipedia". Nurse Author & Editor. 30 (3): 12–14. doi:10.1111/nae2.4. ISSN 1750-4910. S2CID 225212448.
Aucar N, Viteri-García A, Simancas-Racines D, Franco JV (March 2020). "Knowledge translation: Cochrane, Wikipedia and students initiatives". Medwave (in Spanish). 20 (2): e7859. doi:10.5867/medwave.2020.02.7859. PMID 32243430. S2CID 214786684.
Smith DA (2020-02-18). "Situating Wikipedia as a health information resource in various contexts: A scoping review". PLOS ONE. 15 (2): e0228786. Bibcode:2020PLoSO..1528786S. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0228786. PMC 7028268. PMID 32069322.

Maggio LA, Willinsky JM, Costello JA, Skinner NA, Martin PC, Dawson JE (December 2020). "Integrating Wikipedia editing into health professions education: a curricular inventory and review of the literature". Perspectives on Medical Education. 9 (6): 333–342. doi:10.1007/s40037-020-00620-1. PMC 7718341. PMID 33030643.
Murray H, Walker M, Dawson J, Simper N, Maggio LA (March 2020). "Teaching Evidence-Based Medicine to Medical Students Using Wikipedia as a Platform". Academic Medicine. 95 (3): 382–386. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000003085. PMID 31725466. S2CID 208041218.
Adams CE, Montgomery AA, Aburrow T, Bloomfield S, Briley PM, Carew E, et al. (February 2020). "Adding evidence of the effects of treatments into relevant Wikipedia pages: a randomised trial". BMJ Open. 10 (2): e033655. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033655. PMC 7045027. PMID 32086355.
Morata TC, Montilha AA, Machado MA, Zucki F (2020). "Free sound knowledge: how you (or your students) can contribute to Wiki4YearOfSound2020". INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings. 261 (5). Seoul, Korea: 990–1987.
Murphy WJ, Morata TC, Montilha AA, Sadowski JP (2019). "Using Wikipedia to promote acoustics knowledge for the International Year of Sound 2020". 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Vol. 39. San Diego, California. p. 025001. doi:10.1121/2.0001211. S2CID 239363761.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Lagunes-García G, Rodríguez-González A, Prieto-Santamaría L, del Valle EP, Zanin M, Menasalvas-Ruiz E (May 2020). "How Wikipedia disease information evolve over time? An analysis of disease-based articles changes". Information Processing & Management. 57 (3): 102225. doi:10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102225. S2CID 213836096.
Tizzoni M, Panisson A, Paolotti D, Cattuto C (March 2020). Ferrari M (ed.). "The impact of news exposure on collective attention in the United States during the 2016 Zika epidemic". PLOS Computational Biology. 16 (3): e1007633. Bibcode:2020PLSCB..16E7633T. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007633. PMC 7067377. PMID 32163409.
Keegan BC, Tan C (2020-06-15). "A Quantitative Portrait of Wikipedia's High-Tempo Collaborations during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic". arXiv:2006.08899. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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Joorabchi A, Doherty C, Dawson J (September 2020). "'WP2Cochrane', a tool linking Wikipedia to the Cochrane Library: Results of a bibliometric analysis evaluating article quality and importance". Health Informatics Journal. 26 (3): 1881–1897. doi:10.1177/1460458219892711. PMID 31868082. S2CID 209447266.
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2019[edit]

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Willinsky JM, Maggio LA (December 2019). "Is Medical Education Ready for Universal Open Access to Research?". Journal of Graduate Medical Education. 11 (6): 621–623. doi:10.4300/JGME-D-19-00699.1. PMC 6919170. PMID 31871557.
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Ngo DH, Truran D, Kemp M, Lawley M, Metke-Jimenez A (August 2019). "Can Wikipedia Be Used to Derive an Open Clinical Terminology?". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 266 (Digital Health: Changing the Way Healthcare is Conceptualised and Delivered): 136–141. doi:10.3233/SHTI190785. PMID 31397314. S2CID 199505336.
Weiner SS, Horbacewicz J, Rasberry L, Bensinger-Brody Y (March 2019). "Improving the Quality of Consumer Health Information on Wikipedia: Case Series". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21 (3): e12450. doi:10.2196/12450. PMC 6441860. PMID 30882357.
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Jabaley CS, Groff RF, O'Reilly-Shah VN (February 2019). "Asthma Information Seeking via Wikipedia between 2015 and 2018: Implications for Awareness Promotion". American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 199 (4): 531–533. doi:10.1164/rccm.201809-1649LE. PMID 30521354. S2CID 54551394.
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Miles RC, Baird GL, Choi P, Falomo E, Dibble EH, Garg M (April 2019). "Readability of Online Patient Educational Materials Related to Breast Lesions Requiring Surgery". Radiology. 291 (1): 112–118. doi:10.1148/radiol.2019182082. PMID 30694156. S2CID 59340664.
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Hutton MO, Dawson JE, Lee KC, Shumaker PR, Doney E, Dellavalle RP (November 2019). "Improving Wikipedia skin disease content". Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 81 (5): 1193–1195. doi:10.1016/j.jaad.2019.03.063. PMID 30928466. S2CID 89618456.
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2018[edit]

Apollonio DE, Broyde K, Azzam A, De Guia M, Heilman J, Brock T (November 2018). "Pharmacy students can improve access to quality medicines information by editing Wikipedia articles". BMC Medical Education. 18 (1): 265. doi:10.1186/s12909-018-1375-z. PMC 6245851. PMID 30454046.
Simpson A, Le M, Malicka AN (2018-10-02). "The Accuracy and Readability of Wikipedia Articles on Hearing Loss". Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 22 (4): 323–336. doi:10.1080/15398285.2018.1542251. ISSN 1539-8285. S2CID 86725270.
Meka J, Vigliotti A (November 2018). "Should Crowdsourced, Unvetted Content on Wikipedia Be Used in Health Sciences Teaching and Learning?". AMA Journal of Ethics. 20 (11): E1033–E1040. doi:10.1001/amajethics.2018.1033. PMID 30499431. S2CID 54166640.
Hunter JA, Lee T, Persaud N (July 2018). "A comparison of the content and primary literature support for online medication information provided by Lexicomp and Wikipedia". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 106 (3): 352–360. doi:10.5195/jmla.2018.256. PMC 6013145. PMID 29962913.
Mietchen D, Wodak S, Wasik S, Szostak N, Dessimoz C (May 2018). "Submit a Topic Page to PLOS Computational Biology and Wikipedia". PLOS Computational Biology. 14 (5): e1006137. Bibcode:2018PLSCB..14E6137M. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006137. PMC 5978877. PMID 29851950.
Holtz P, Fetahu B, Kimmerle J (May 2018). "Effects of Contributor Experience on the Quality of Health-Related Wikipedia Articles". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 20 (5): e171. doi:10.2196/jmir.9683. PMC 5968213. PMID 29748161.
Antonio Mouriño García M, Pérez Rodríguez R, Anido Rifón L (June 2018). "Leveraging Wikipedia knowledge to classify multilingual biomedical documents". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 88: 37–57. doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2018.04.007. PMID 29730047. S2CID 195667540.
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Brigo F, Lattanzi S, Bragazzi N, Nardone R, Moccia M, Lavorgna L (February 2018). "Why do people search Wikipedia for information on multiple sclerosis?". Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders. 20: 210–214. doi:10.1016/j.msard.2018.02.001. PMID 29428464.
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2017[edit]

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Brigo, Francesco; Otte, Willem M.; Igwe, Stanley C.; Ausserer, Harald; Nardone, Raffaele; Tezzon, Frediano; Trinka, Eugen (December 2015). "Information-seeking behaviour for epilepsy: an infodemiological study of searches for Wikipedia articles". Epileptic Disorders. 17 (4): 460–466. doi:10.1684/epd.2015.0772. ISSN 1294-9361. PMID 26575365.
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Brigo F, Otte WM, Igwe SC, Tezzon F, Nardone R (March 2015). "Clearly written, easily comprehended? The readability of websites providing information on epilepsy". Epilepsy & Behavior. 44: 35–39. doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2014.12.029. PMID 25601720. S2CID 24972881.
Azer SA, AlSwaidan NM, Alshwairikh LA, AlShammari JM (October 2015). "Accuracy and readability of cardiovascular entries on Wikipedia: are they reliable learning resources for medical students?". BMJ Open. 5 (10): e008187. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008187. PMC 4606442. PMID 26443650.
Fairchild G, Del Valle SY, De Silva L, Segre AM (May 2015). "Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles". Proceedings of the ... International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. 2015: 26–33. arXiv:1504.00657. PMC 5511739. PMID 28721308.

2014[edit]

Vrandečić D, Krötzsch M (2014). "Wikidata: A free collaborative knowledgebase". Communications of the ACM. 57 (10): 78–85. doi:10.1145/2629489. S2CID 229377193.
Egle JP, Smeenge DM, Kassem KM, Mittal VK (December 2014). "The Internet School of Medicine: use of electronic resources by medical trainees and the reliability of those resources". Journal of Surgical Education. 72 (2): 316–320. doi:10.1016/j.jsurg.2014.08.005. PMID 25487347.
Vydiswaran VG, Mei Q, Hanauer DA, Zheng K (2014). "Mining consumer health vocabulary from community-generated text". AMIA ... Annual Symposium Proceedings. AMIA Symposium. 2014: 1150–1159. PMC 4419967. PMID 25954426.
Antivalle M, Battellino M, Ditto MC, Varisco V, Chevallard M, Rigamonti F, et al. (June 2014). "SAT0585 Evaluation of Wikipedia Rheumatology Articles as A Learning Resource for Medical Students". Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 73 (Suppl 2): 801.3–802. doi:10.1136/annrheumdis-2014-eular.5610. ISSN 0003-4967. S2CID 75765442.
Farič N, Potts HW (December 2014). "Motivations for contributing to health-related articles on Wikipedia: an interview study". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 16 (12): e260. doi:10.2196/jmir.3569. PMC 4275502. PMID 25498308.
Jetty P, Yacob MM, Lotfi S (November 2014). "The Wikipedia Medical Student: Comparing the Quality of Vascular Surgery Topics Across Two Commonly Used Educational Resources". Journal of Vascular Surgery. 60 (5): 1404. doi:10.1016/j.jvs.2014.08.030.
Messner M, DiStaso MW, Jin Y, Meganck S, Sherman S, Norton S (2014). "Influencing public opinion from corn syrup to obesity: A longitudinal analysis of the references for nutritional entries on Wikipedia". First Monday. 19 (11). doi:10.5210/fm.v19i11.4823.
Kräenbring J, Monzon Penza T, Gutmann J, Muehlich S, Zolk O, Wojnowski L, et al. (2014). "Accuracy and completeness of drug information in Wikipedia: a comparison with standard textbooks of pharmacology". PLOS ONE. 9 (9): e106930. Bibcode:2014PLoSO...9j6930K. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106930. PMC 4174509. PMID 25250889.
Norman J. Temple, Joy Fraser (Mar 2014). "How Accurate Are Wikipedia Articles in Health, Nutrition, and Medicine? / Les articles de Wikipédia dans les domaines de la santé, de la nutrition et de la médecine sont-ils exacts ?". Canadian Journal of Information and Library Science. 38 (1): 37–52. doi:10.1353/ils.2014.0000. S2CID 60695239.
Hwang TJ, Bourgeois FT, Seeger JD (June 2014). "Drug safety in the digital age". The New England Journal of Medicine. 370 (26): 2460–2462. doi:10.1056/NEJMp1401767. PMID 24963564.
Schmidt HG, Mamede S, van den Berge K, van Gog T, van Saase JL, Rikers RM (February 2014). "Exposure to media information about a disease can cause doctors to misdiagnose similar-looking clinical cases". Academic Medicine. 89 (2): 285–291. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000000107. PMID 24362387. S2CID 42441863.
Hasty RT, Garbalosa RC, Barbato VA, Valdes PJ, Powers DW, Hernandez E, et al. (May 2014). "Wikipedia vs peer-reviewed medical literature for information about the 10 most costly medical conditions". The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association. 114 (5): 368–373. doi:10.7556/jaoa.2014.035. PMID 24778001. S2CID 40519767.
McIver DJ, Brownstein JS (April 2014). "Wikipedia usage estimates prevalence of influenza-like illness in the United States in near real-time". PLOS Computational Biology. 10 (4): e1003581. Bibcode:2014PLSCB..10E3581M. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003581. PMC 3990502. PMID 24743682.
Rasberry L (April 2014). "Wikipedia: what it is and why it matters for healthcare". BMJ. 348 (apr08 3): g2478. doi:10.1136/bmj.g2478. PMID 24714406. S2CID 11470667.
Rasberry L (March 2014). "Citing wikipedia". BMJ. 348 (mar05 4): g1819. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1819. PMID 24603566. S2CID 39609957.
"Wikipedia is the single leading source of medical information for patients and healthcare professionals" IMS Health (21 January 2014). "IMS Health: Pharma Should Make Better Use of Social Media To Engage Patients and Improve the Use of Medicines". imshealth.com. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
Bould MD, Hladkowicz ES, Pigford AA, Ufholz LA, Postonogova T, Shin E, Boet S (March 2014). "References that anyone can edit: review of Wikipedia citations in peer reviewed health science literature". BMJ. 348 (mar05 4): g1585. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1585. PMC 3944683. PMID 24603564.
Chitu Okoli, Mohamad Mehdi, Mostafa Mesgari, Finn Årup Nielsen, Arto Lanamäki, "Wikipedia in the eyes of its beholders: A systematic review of scholarly research on Wikipedia readers and readership", Publication date 2014/4/30, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, PDF, Sections on Medicine are pp 7–8, 12–13. The paper only covers research published up to June 2011.
Mostafa Mesgari, Chitu Okoli, Mohamad Mehdi, Finn Årup Nielsen, Arto Lanamäki, "The sum of all human knowledge": A systematic review of scholarly research on the content of Wikipedia", Publication date 2014/4/30, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, PDF, This covers research on content quality etc. – medical section at pp. 6–7, readability at 9–11. Also only covers research published up to mid-2011.
Phillips J, Lam C, Palmisano L (2014). "Analysis of the accuracy and readability of herbal supplement information on Wikipedia". Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 54 (4): 406–414. doi:10.1331/JAPhA.2014.13181. PMID 25063262.
Conti R, Marzini E, Spognardi A, Matteucci I, Mori P, Petrocchi M (2014). "Maturity Assessment of Wikipedia Medical Articles". 2014 IEEE 27th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems. pp. 281–286. doi:10.1109/CBMS.2014.69. ISBN 978-1-4799-4435-4. S2CID 24596157.
Maskalyk J (2014-10-02). "Modern medicine comes online: How putting Wikipedia articles through a medical journal's traditional process can put free, reliable information into as many hands as possible". Open Medicine. 8 (4): e116–e119. PMC 4242788. PMID 25426179.
Generous N, Fairchild G, Deshpande A, Del Valle SY, Priedhorsky R (November 2014). Salathé M (ed.). "Global disease monitoring and forecasting with Wikipedia". PLOS Computational Biology. 10 (11): e1003892. arXiv:1405.3612. Bibcode:2014PLSCB..10E3892G. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003892. PMC 4231164. PMID 25392913.
Adomi EE, Adigwe SE (April 2014). "Use and Perception of Wikipedia among Medical Students in a Nigerian University". International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence. 5 (2): 1–11. doi:10.4018/ijdldc.2014040101. ISSN 1947-3494.
Fitterling L (1 May 2014). "Wikipedia: Proceed With Caution". Journal of Osteopathic Medicine. 114 (5): 334–335. doi:10.7556/jaoa.2014.066. ISSN 2702-3648. PMID 24777995. S2CID 8684499.
Harshaw C, Marcinowski E, Campbell J (November 2014). "Communicating Developmental Psychobiology to the masses: Why psychobiologists should contribute to Wikipedia: Commentary". Developmental Psychobiology. 56 (7): 1439–1441. doi:10.1002/dev.21239. PMID 25132415.

2013[edit]

Mathew ME, Joseph A, Heilman JM, Tharyan P, et al. (The Cochrane Collaboration) (October 2013). Tovey D (ed.). "Cochrane and Wikipedia: the collaborative potential for a quantum leap in the dissemination and uptake of trusted evidence". The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (10). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: ED000069. doi:10.1002/14651858.ed000069. PMID 24475488.
90% of Wikipedia articles have "equivalent or better quality than their Britannica counterparts" in blind expert review
Archambault PM, van de Belt TH, Grajales FJ, Faber MJ, Kuziemsky CE, Gagnon S, et al. (October 2013). "Wikis and collaborative writing applications in health care: a scoping review". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 15 (10): e210. doi:10.2196/jmir.2787. PMC 3929050. PMID 24103318.
Teunis T (March 2013). "The Wikipedia Guide to Medicine Could the Online Encyclopaedia Provide the Basis for a New Medical School Curriculum?". Student BMJ. 21: 16–17. doi:10.1136/sbmj.f1091. S2CID 164238600.
Allahwala UK, Nadkarni A, Sebaratnam DF (April 2013). "Wikipedia use amongst medical students - new insights into the digital revolution". Medical Teacher. 35 (4): 337. doi:10.3109/0142159X.2012.737064. PMID 23137251. S2CID 39910202.
Azer SA (February 2014). "Evaluation of gastroenterology and hepatology articles on Wikipedia: are they suitable as learning resources for medical students?". European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 26 (2): 155–163. doi:10.1097/MEG.0000000000000003. PMID 24276492. S2CID 7760287.
Makovsky Integrated Communications (9 September 2013). "Online Health Research Eclipsing Patient-Doctor Conversations". makovsky.com. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
Thomas GR, Eng L, de Wolff JF, Grover SC (2013). "An evaluation of Wikipedia as a resource for patient education in nephrology". Seminars in Dialysis. 26 (2): 159–163. doi:10.1111/sdi.12059. PMID 23432369. S2CID 23361618.
Schultz DS, Brabender VM (2013). "More challenges since Wikipedia: the effects of exposure to internet information about the Rorschach on selected comprehensive system variables". Journal of Personality Assessment. 95 (2): 149–158. doi:10.1080/00223891.2012.725438. PMID 23030722. S2CID 21422063.
Kolski D, Arlt S, Birk S, Heuwieser W (2013). "Use and acceptance of Wiki systems for students of veterinary medicine". GMS Zeitschrift Fur Medizinische Ausbildung. 30 (1): Doc10. doi:10.3205/zma000853. PMC 3589678. PMID 23467415.
Heilman J (January 2013). "Online encyclopedia provides free health info for all. Interview by Fiona Fleck". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 91 (1): 8–9. doi:10.2471/BLT.13.030113. PMC 3537258. PMID 23397345.
McVey RM, Clarke E, Joyce P, Turner M, Gannon MJ (March 2013). "Toward a wiki guide for obstetrics and gynecology trainees in Ireland". International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. 120 (3): 301–306. doi:10.1016/j.ijgo.2012.10.017. PMID 23305728. S2CID 23314263.
Archambault PM, van de Belt TH, Grajales FJ, Faber MJ, Kuziemsky CE, Gagnon S, et al. (October 2013). "Wikis and collaborative writing applications in health care: a scoping review". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 15 (10): e210. doi:10.2196/jmir.2787. PMC 3929050. PMID 24103318.
Roessing T (2013). "The Dispute over Filtering "indecent" Images in Wikipedia" (PDF). Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology. 7 (2): 303–317. - includes, per The Signpost: "the results of a small web-based experiment where 163 participants were randomly shown one of three versions of the article de:Furunkel (boil): Either without images, or with a "neutral image", or "with a somewhat disgusting image of an infected boil." The author states that "The most interesting results for the Wikipedia community is that the disgusting image enhances the perceived quality of the article: It is perceived to be more fascinating (p=.023) and more worth reading (p=.032) than an article without any image."
Maggi E, Magistrelli L, Zavattaro M, Beggiato M, Maiello F, Naturale C, Ragliani M, Varalda M, Viola MS, Concina D, Allara E (July 2013). "Risk factors and control of hospital acquired infections: a comparison between Wikipedia and scientific literature". Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Public Health. 10 (ONLINE FIRST). doi:10.2427/8744. S2CID 57844723.
Liu F, Moosavinasab S, Agarwal S, Bennett AS, Yu H (2013). "Automatically identifying health- and clinical-related content in wikipedia". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 192: 637–641. doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-637. PMID 23920634.
Sanz-Lorente M, Guardiola-Wanden-Berghe R, Wanden-Berghe C, Sanz-Valero J (October 2013). "[Presence and characteristics of nursing terminology in Wikipedia]". Revista de Enfermeria. 36 (10): 22–26. PMID 24354129.

2012[edit]

Wodak SJ, Mietchen D, Collings AM, Russell RB, Bourne PE (2012). "Topic pages: PLoS Computational Biology meets Wikipedia". PLOS Computational Biology. 8 (3): e1002446. Bibcode:2012PLSCB...8E2446W. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002446. PMC 3315447. PMID 22479174.
Schultz DS, Loving JL (Jan 2012). "Challenges since Wikipedia: the availability of Rorschach information online and internet users' reactions to online media coverage of the Rorschach-Wikipedia debate". Journal of Personality Assessment. 94 (1): 73–81. doi:10.1080/00223891.2011.627963. PMID 22176268. S2CID 26869906.
von Muhlen M, Ohno-Machado L (2012). "Reviewing social media use by clinicians". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 19 (5): 777–781. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000990. PMC 3422846. PMID 22759618.
Volsky PG, Baldassari CM, Mushti S, Derkay CS (September 2012). "Quality of Internet information in pediatric otolaryngology: a comparison of three most referenced websites". International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology. 76 (9): 1312–1316. doi:10.1016/j.ijporl.2012.05.026. PMID 22770592.
Chiang CD, Lewis CL, Wright MD, Agapova S, Akers B, Azad TD, et al. (August 2012). "Learning chronobiology by improving Wikipedia". Journal of Biological Rhythms. 27 (4): 333–336. doi:10.1177/0748730412449578. PMID 22855578. S2CID 206545353.
van Velsen L, van Gemert-Pijnen JE, Beaujean DJ, Wentzel J, van Steenbergen JE (December 2012). "Should health organizations use web 2.0 media in times of an infectious disease crisis? An in-depth qualitative study of citizens' information behavior during an EHEC outbreak". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 14 (6): e181. doi:10.2196/jmir.2123. PMC 3799610. PMID 23257066.
López Marcos P, Sanz-Valero J (February 2013). "[Presence and adequacy of pharmaceutical preparations in the Spanish edition of Wikipedia]". Atencion Primaria. 45 (2): 101–106. doi:10.1016/j.aprim.2012.09.012. PMC 6985508. PMID 23159792.
Allahwala UK, Nadkarni A, Sebaratnam DF (April 2013). "Wikipedia use amongst medical students - new insights into the digital revolution". Medical Teacher. 35 (4): 337. doi:10.3109/0142159X.2012.737064. PMID 23137251. S2CID 39910202.
Naftel RP, Safiano NA, Falola MI, Shannon CN, Wellons JC, Johnston JM (January 2013). "Technology preferences among caregivers of children with hydrocephalus". Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics. 11 (1): 26–36. doi:10.3171/2012.9.PEDS12208. PMID 23092227. S2CID 207685390.
Auvin S, Dupont S (March 2013). "[Quality of health information about epilepsy on the Internet: Evaluation of French websites]". Revue Neurologique. 169 (3): 234–239. doi:10.1016/j.neurol.2012.08.008. PMID 23067876.
Nattestad A (October 2012). "Knowledge management systems for oral health in developing and developed countries". Periodontology 2000. 60 (1): 156–161. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0757.2011.00403.x. PMID 22909113.
Gallagher J, Kenwright D, Abels P, Gallagher P (August 2012). "Is obstetrics and gynaecology going the distance?". The Clinical Teacher. 9 (4): 243–247. doi:10.1111/j.1743-498X.2012.00540.x. PMID 22783857. S2CID 6977069.
Kint M, Hart DP (July 2012). "Should clinicians edit Wikipedia to engage a wider world web?". BMJ. 345: e4275. doi:10.1136/bmj.e4275. PMID 22761090. S2CID 34019528.
Wicks P, Bell V (April 2012). "Letter to the editor: quality of mental health information on Wikipedia". Psychological Medicine. 42 (4): 891. doi:10.1017/S0033291712000086. PMID 22313634. S2CID 33334520.
Reavley NJ, Mackinnon AJ, Morgan AJ, Alvarez-Jimenez M, Hetrick SE, Killackey E, et al. (August 2012). "Quality of information sources about mental disorders: a comparison of Wikipedia with centrally controlled web and printed sources". Psychological Medicine. 42 (8): 1753–1762. doi:10.1017/S003329171100287X. hdl:11343/59260. PMID 22166182. S2CID 13329595.
von Muhlen M, Ohno-Machado L (Sep–Oct 2012). "Reviewing social media use by clinicians". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 19 (5): 777–781. doi:10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000990. PMC 3422846. PMID 22759618.
Natarajan A, Racherla S (May 2012). "Wikipedia: encyclopaedia cardiologica". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 105 (5): 191. doi:10.1258/jrsm.2012.120012. PMC 3360528. PMID 22637767.
Pusz MD, Brietzke SE (September 2012). "How good is Google? The quality of otolaryngology information on the internet". Otolaryngology--Head and Neck Surgery. 147 (3): 462–465. doi:10.1177/0194599812447733. PMID 22597577. S2CID 8542051.
Sanz-Valero J, Guardiola-Wanden-Berghe R, Castiel LD (November 2012). "[Presence and adequacy of the nutritional and eating disorders terminology in the Spanish and English editions of the Wikipedia]". Nutricion Hospitalaria. 27 (Suppl 2): 54–58. doi:10.4321/S0212-16112012000800008 (inactive 31 January 2024). PMID 23568398.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
Chiang CD, Lewis CL, Wright MD, Agapova S, Akers B, Azad TD, et al. (August 2012). "Learning chronobiology by improving Wikipedia". Journal of Biological Rhythms. 27 (4): 333–336. doi:10.1177/0748730412449578. PMID 22855578. S2CID 206545353.

2011[edit]

Metcalfe D, Powell J (December 2011). "Should doctors spurn Wikipedia?". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 104 (12): 488–489. doi:10.1258/jrsm.2011.110227. PMC 3241521. PMID 22179287.
Badgett RG, Moore M (2011). "Are Medical Students Able and Willing to Edit Wikipedia to Learn Components of Evidence-Based Practice?". Kansas Journal of Medicine. 4 (3): 62–69. doi:10.17161/kjm.v4i3.11341. - see User:Badgettrg
Lavsa SM, Corman SL, Culley CM, Pummer TL (2011). "Reliability of Wikipedia as a medication information source for pharmacy students". Currents in Pharmacy Teaching and Learning. 3 (2): 154–158. doi:10.1016/j.cptl.2011.01.007.
Law MR, Mintzes B, Morgan SG (March 2011). "The sources and popularity of online drug information: an analysis of top search engine results and web page views". The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 45 (3): 350–356. doi:10.1345/aph.1P572. PMID 21343404. S2CID 13506242.
Tulbert BH, Snyder CW, Brodell RT (March 2011). "Readability of Patient-oriented Online Dermatology Resources". The Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology. 4 (3): 27–33. PMC 3070466. PMID 21464884.
Tausczik Y, Faasse K, Pennebaker JW, Petrie KJ (Feb 2012). "Public anxiety and information seeking following the H1N1 outbreak: blogs, newspaper articles, and Wikipedia visits". Health Communication. 27 (2): 179–185. doi:10.1080/10410236.2011.571759. PMID 21827326. S2CID 3783651.
Ozdoba C (September 2011). "Wikipedia: A good address for neuroradiologists?". Clinical Neuroradiology. 21 (3): 181–182. doi:10.1007/s00062-011-0098-x. PMID 21853303. S2CID 8966428.
Kupferberg N, Protus BM (October 2011). "Accuracy and completeness of drug information in Wikipedia: an assessment". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 99 (4): 310–313. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.99.4.010. PMC 3193353. PMID 22022226.
Reavley NJ, Mackinnon AJ, Morgan AJ, Alvarez-Jimenez M, Hetrick SE, Killackey E, et al. (August 2012). "Quality of information sources about mental disorders: a comparison of Wikipedia with centrally controlled web and printed sources". Psychological Medicine. 42 (8): 1753–1762. doi:10.1017/S003329171100287X. hdl:11343/59260. PMID 22166182. S2CID 13329595.
Rajagopalan MS, Khanna VK, Leiter Y, Stott M, Showalter TN, Dicker AP, Lawrence YR (September 2011). "Patient-oriented cancer information on the internet: a comparison of wikipedia and a professionally maintained database". Journal of Oncology Practice. 7 (5): 319–323. doi:10.1200/JOP.2010.000209. PMC 3170066. PMID 22211130.
Haigh CA (February 2011). "Wikipedia as an evidence source for nursing and healthcare students". Nurse Education Today. 31 (2): 135–139. doi:10.1016/j.nedt.2010.05.004. PMID 20646799.
Heilman JM, Kemmann E, Bonert M, Chatterjee A, Ragar B, Beards GM, et al. (January 2011). "Wikipedia: a key tool for global public health promotion". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 13 (1): e14. doi:10.2196/jmir.1589. PMC 3221335. PMID 21282098.
Trevena L (June 2011). "WikiProject medicine". BMJ. 342: d3387. doi:10.1136/bmj.d3387. PMID 21653617. S2CID 206893220.
McInnes N, Haglund BJ (December 2011). "Readability of online health information: implications for health literacy". Informatics for Health & Social Care. 36 (4): 173–189. doi:10.3109/17538157.2010.542529. PMID 21332302. S2CID 12709135.
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2010[edit]

Logan DW, Sandal M, Gardner PP, Manske M, Bateman A (September 2010). "Ten simple rules for editing Wikipedia". PLOS Computational Biology. 6 (9): e1000941. Bibcode:2010PLSCB...6E0941L. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000941. PMC 2947980. PMID 20941386.
Friedlin J, McDonald CJ (May 2010). "An evaluation of medical knowledge contained in Wikipedia and its use in the LOINC database". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 17 (3): 283–287. doi:10.1136/jamia.2009.001180. PMC 2974620. PMID 20442145.
Kim JY, Gudewicz TM, Dighe AS, Gilbertson JR (July 2010). "The pathology informatics curriculum wiki: Harnessing the power of user-generated content". Journal of Pathology Informatics. 1 (1): 10. doi:10.4103/2153-3539.65428. PMC 2929539. PMID 20805963.
Greysen SR, Kind T, Chretien KC (November 2010). "Online professionalism and the mirror of social media". Journal of General Internal Medicine. 25 (11): 1227–1229. doi:10.1007/s11606-010-1447-1. PMC 2947638. PMID 20632121.
Younger P (January 2010). "IngentaConnect Beyond Wikipedia: how good a reference source are medical wikis?". Reference Reviews Incorporating ASLIB Book Guide. 24 (1): 7–9. doi:10.1108/09504121011019899.
Rajagopalan MS, Khanna V, Stott M, Leiter Y, Showalter TN, Dicker A, Lawrence YR (May 2010). "Accuracy of cancer information on the Internet: A comparison of a Wiki with a professionally maintained database". Journal of Clinical Oncology. 28 (15 Suppl): 6058. doi:10.1200/jco.2010.28.15_suppl.6058.
Leithner A, Maurer-Ertl W, Glehr M, Friesenbichler J, Leithner K, Windhager R (2010). "Wikipedia and osteosarcoma: a trustworthy patients' information?". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 17 (4): 373–374. doi:10.1136/jamia.2010.004507. PMC 2995655. PMID 20595302.
Younger P (2010). "Using wikis as an online health information resource". Nursing Standard. 24 (36): 49–56, quiz 58. doi:10.7748/ns2010.05.24.36.49.c7772. PMID 20527486.
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Lorenz A, Türp JC (2010). "[Dentistry in Wikipedia: A quantitative and qualitative analysis]". Schweizer Monatsschrift Fur Zahnmedizin = Revue Mensuelle Suisse d'Odonto-Stomatologie = Rivista Mensile Svizzera di Odontologia e Stomatologia. 120 (12): 1117–1126. PMID 21261123.

2009[edit]

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Brokowski L, Sheehan AH (November 2009). "Evaluation of pharmacist use and perception of Wikipedia as a drug information resource". The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 43 (11): 1912–1913. doi:10.1345/aph.1M340. PMID 19843833. S2CID 207263686.
Hughes B, Joshi I, Lemonde H, Wareham J (October 2009). "Junior physician's use of Web 2.0 for information seeking and medical education: a qualitative study". International Journal of Medical Informatics. 78 (10): 645–655. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2009.04.008. PMID 19501017.
Laurent MR, Vickers TJ (2009). "Seeking health information online: does Wikipedia matter?". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 16 (4): 471–479. doi:10.1197/jamia.M3059. PMC 2705249. PMID 19390105.
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"A Reader and Author Respond to "The End of Peer Review and Traditional Publishing as We Know It"". 2009.
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