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Metadata
- Authors
- Giles, J.
- Corresponding author
- Giles, Jim
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2005-12-14
- Volume
- 438
- Issue
- 7070
- Pages
- 900-901
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W1972644898
- Cited by
- 1,978
- References
- 6
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- Type
- other
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Wikis in Education and Collaboration
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Expert finding and Q&A systems
- Keywords
- Wikipedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica, online encyclopedias, comparative analysis, Jimmy Wales, crowdsourced knowledge
- MeSH terms
- Authorship, Encyclopedias as Topic, Publishing, Research Personnel, Internet
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