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“Recent peer review tests of the Wikipedia on-line encyclopedia suggests that its accuracy is comparable to its most prestigious IP-supported counterpart, Encyclopedia Britannica .”
From Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm (2006) · cites this paper as Giles (2005)
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“Like those earlier 'big science' projects, the quality of at least some on-line resources seems to be high.”
From Open Source Software: The New Intellectual Property Paradigm (2006) · cites this paper as Giles (2005)
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“Concentrations were higher in rural households, with an average of 514 µg/m3 (95% CI 446–582), 3·4 times the urban household average (149 µg/m3, 95% CI 126–173; figure 8).277,278”
From The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action (2024) · cites this paper as [277]
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Giles, J. (2005) · Nature · doi:10.1038/438554a · Cited by 61
Self-citationButler, D. (2005) · Nature · doi:10.1038/438548a · Cited by 42
von Bubnoff, A. (2005) · Nature · doi:10.1038/438550a · Cited by 11
The expanding electronic universe
Tomlin, S. (2005) · Nature · doi:10.1038/438547a · Cited by 11
(2005) · Nature · doi:10.1038/434941a · Cited by 5
Khamsi, R. (2005) · Nature · doi:10.1038/news050314-17 · Cited by 1
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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
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 62 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 101 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 124 · 2018: 78 · 2017: 71 · 2016: 102 · 2015: 99 · 2014: 118 · 2013: 137 · 2012: 132
- 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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