[Taxacom] Zootaxa's impact on Wikipedia

[Roderic Page]

Playing with extracting information from Wkipedia I've started to look  
at patterns of citation (i.e., what articles/journals are Wikipedia  
pages citing). Turns out a lot of this has been done by Finn Årup  
Nielsen (see http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/08/scientific-citations-in-wikipedia.html 
  ).

What is fascinating is that Zootaxa (impact factor 0.74)  is the 11th  
most cited journal across all of Wikipedia http://tinyurl.com/lnjfjz ,  
beating journals such as Cell (impact factor 31.3).

In my blog post http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2009/08/scientific-citations-in-wikipedia.html 
  I argue that if taxonomists (and others) contributed well-referenced  
articles to Wikipedia, they'd help improve the quality of that  
resource, as well as making taxonomic literature much more visible.

Regards

Rod



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