Analyzing Persian Wikipedia's citations to discover the effectiveness of Persian scientific papers: applied web mining techniques
Performance Measurement and Metrics
ISSN: 1467-8047
Article publication date: 20 July 2023
Issue publication date: 25 July 2023
Abstract
Purpose
The main objective of this study is to evaluate the impact of Persian Scientific Papers (PSPs) on Persian Wikipedia by studying Wikipedia's citations to these papers.
Design/methodology/approach
The present study is applied research, which has been performed by the web-mining method, such as downloading web pages, extracting information (references), identifying papers, detecting peer-review journals and calculating the frequency rates. The statistical population included 10,000 Persian Wikipedia Pages (PWPs) that were analyzed in two rounds with a six-month interval.
Findings
The number of pages containing the Persian references section was 3,994 and 4,063 out of the 10,000 pages extracted in the first and second rounds. The ratio of pages that cited scientific sources (58 and 67 pages) to the pages extracted from the PWP was equal to 0.58 and 0.67%. The ratio of pages that cited scientific sources to pages with Persian references in each round was equal to 1.45 and 1.64%. The number of references extracted from the PWP in each round equaled 30,441 and 35,891. Eight titles from reputable Persian journals had received at least three citations from Wikipedia.
Originality/value
The present study has determined the extent of interaction between science and society (knowledge flow) in the form of citations from Wikipedia articles to articles in peer-reviewed journals. The study of this issue in Persian Wikipedia in more than 2000 Persian peer-reviewed journals shows the originality of the present paper. Studying citation reliability in a collaborative and openly editable platform is another originality of the work.
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Acknowledgements
This article is extracted from a research project entitled “Impact Assessment of Persian scientific papers citations on the web: A citation analysis of Persian Wikipedia references.” The article's authors acknowledge the chancellery of ISC for approving and supporting the current research project.
Citation
Rahimi, F. and Danesh, F. (2023), "Analyzing Persian Wikipedia's citations to discover the effectiveness of Persian scientific papers: applied web mining techniques", Performance Measurement and Metrics, Vol. 24 No. 2, pp. 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1108/PMM-07-2022-0021
Publisher
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