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An introductory video about how to edit Wikipedia and medicine.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and has a distinct style that may take some time getting used to.
It is important that articles use the best sources and content is given due weight. Different from scientific papers, Wikipedia medical and health content is preferably sourced to secondary sources over primary sources. Citing a review article is preferred over an original trial.
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Top-importance articles at B-class or above as of 30 September 2021: 82.5% complete

Goal: 80 featured articles: 76.3% complete

Goal: 500 good articles: 67% complete

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170 edits	Febrile seizure
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37 edits	Affordable Care Act
35 edits	COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland
35 edits	Michelle Bachelet

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MCOTM

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Each month we select a Medical Collaboration of the Month to focus our efforts on. Topics may either relate to medical basic sciences (such as anatomy or biochemistry), or clinical medicine (such as illnesses and surgical procedures). The project aims to improve medicine articles, and to give editors an opportunity to collaborate. Anyone can nominate an article, or vote on nominees at our project page. The collaboration of the month for June 2022 is Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease! Visit its talk page to help coordinate our efforts.

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About

Research

Wikipedia can be a great resource for getting to know a field — and it can give you an encyclopaedic overview of a subject, acting as a spring-board letting you dive deeper. It should however not be used as your only source when performing research, and you should never blindly trust Wikipedia. Over the years a lot of research has been amassed surrounding the reliability and biases of Wikipedia. To see some of the studies that have been produced on the quality and scope of medical information on Wikipedia take a look at some of the research:

Academic studies of health information on Wikipedia

This is a list of academic articles related to the coverage of medicine on Wikipedia. For general academic articles see Academic studies of Wikipedia. For popular media coverage of Wikipedia's medical content see the popular media list.

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

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.

COVID-19 pandemic and Wikipedia

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:10.1101/2021.03.01.433379. 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. ISSN 2334-0770.
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.
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. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

By year

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:10.1101/2021.03.01.433379. 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: 1–5. doi:10.1159/000521938. PMID 35134804. S2CID 246677682.

2020

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 (ahead-of-print): 696–708. doi:10.1108/JD-03-2021-0049. hdl:11375/26812. ISSN 0022-0418.
Couto L, Lopes CT (2021-04-19). "Assessing the quality of health-related Wikipedia articles with generic and specific metrics". Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021. Ljubljana Slovenia: ACM: 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.
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.
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: 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. 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: e20210099. 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.
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. ISSN 2334-0770.
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

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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.

2019

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.
Calabrese C, Anderton BN, Barnett GA (April 2019). "Online Representations of "Genome Editing" Uncover Opportunities for Encouraging Engagement: A Semantic Network Analysis". Science Communication. 41 (2): 222–242. doi:10.1177/1075547018824709. ISSN 1075-5470. S2CID 150941183.
García GL, Santamaria LP, del Valle EP, Zanin M, Ruiz EM, González AR (2019). "Wikipedia Disease Articles: An Analysis of their Content and Evolution". 2019 IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). IEEE. pp. 664–671. doi:10.1109/cbms.2019.00136. ISBN 978-1-7281-2286-1.
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.
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.
Jemielniak D, Masukume G, Wilamowski M (January 2019). "The Most Influential Medical Journals According to Wikipedia: Quantitative Analysis". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21 (1): e11429. doi:10.2196/11429. PMC 6356187. PMID 30664451.
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.
Watad A, Watad S, Mahroum N, Sharif K, Amital H, Bragazzi NL, Adawi M (February 2019). "Forecasting the West Nile Virus in the United States: An Extensive Novel Data Streams-Based Time Series Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling of Related Digital Searching Behavior". JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 5 (1): e9176. doi:10.2196/publichealth.9176. PMC 6416538. PMID 30601755.
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.
Mittermeier JC, Roll U, Matthews TJ, Grenyer R (March 2019). Jordano P (ed.). "A season for all things: Phenological imprints in Wikipedia usage and their relevance to conservation". PLOS Biology. 17 (3): e3000146. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3000146. PMC 6400330. PMID 30835729.
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.
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.
Yun J, Lee SH, Jeong H (February 2019). "Early onset of structural inequality in the formation of collaborative knowledge in all Wikimedia projects". Nature Human Behaviour. 3 (2): 155–163. arXiv:1610.06006. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0488-z. PMID 30944440. S2CID 12596258.
Joshi M, Verduzco R, Yogi S, Garcia M, Saxena S, Tackett S, et al. (2019). "Wikipedia Editing Courses at Three US Medical Schools in the 2017-2018 Academic Year". MedEdPublish. 8 (2): 146. doi:10.15694/mep.2019.000146.1. S2CID 198762131.
London DA, Andelman SM, Christiano AV, Kim JH, Hausman MR, Kim JM (October 2019). "Is Wikipedia a complete and accurate source for musculoskeletal anatomy?". Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy. 41 (10): 1187–1192. doi:10.1007/s00276-019-02280-1. PMID 31264001. S2CID 195766595.
Tackett S, Gaglani S, Heilman J, Azzam A (May 2019). "The reCAPTCHA of medical education". Medical Teacher. 41 (5): 598–600. doi:10.1080/0142159X.2018.1460463. PMID 29683009. S2CID 5040735.
Brigo F, Lattanzi S (July 2019). "Is it really epilepsy? Accuracy of images and videos conveying epilepsy-related information in Wikipedia". Epilepsy & Behavior. 96: 249–250. doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2019.04.048. PMID 31130497. S2CID 162183633.
Murray H (June 2019). "More than 2 billion pairs of eyeballs: Why aren't you sharing medical knowledge on Wikipedia?". BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 24 (3): 90–91. doi:10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111040. PMID 30108058. S2CID 52004428.
Domingues, Gil; Teixeira Lopes, Carla (2019-05-13). "Characterizing and comparing Portuguese and English Wikipedia medicine-related articles". Companion Proceedings of the 2019 World Wide Web Conference. WWW '19: 1203–1207. doi:10.1145/3308560.3316758. ISBN 978-1-4503-6675-5. S2CID 153313835.

2018

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.
Modiri O, Guha D, Alotaibi NM, Ibrahim GM, Lipsman N, Fallah A (March 2018). "Readability and quality of wikipedia pages on neurosurgical topics". Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery. 166: 66–70. doi:10.1016/j.clineuro.2018.01.021. PMID 29408776. S2CID 3544057.
Al Tamime R, Giordano R, Hall W (2018-05-15). "Observing Burstiness in Wikipedia Articles during New Disease Outbreaks". Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science. Amsterdam Netherlands: ACM: 117–126. doi:10.1145/3201064.3201080. ISBN 978-1-4503-5563-6. S2CID 21698638.
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.
Brigo F, Lattanzi S, Giussani G, Tassi L, Pietrafusa N, Galimberti CA, et al. (April 2018). "Italian Wikipedia and epilepsy: An infodemiological study of online information-seeking behavior". Epilepsy & Behavior. 81: 119–122. doi:10.1016/j.yebeh.2018.01.037. hdl:11573/1076675. PMID 29454607. S2CID 205760404.
Mahroum N, Bragazzi NL, Sharif K, Gianfredi V, Nucci D, Rosselli R, et al. (June 2018). "Leveraging Google Trends, Twitter, and Wikipedia to Investigate the Impact of a Celebrity's Death From Rheumatoid Arthritis". Journal of Clinical Rheumatology. 24 (4): 188–192. doi:10.1097/RHU.0000000000000692. PMID 29461342. S2CID 3442166.
Morata T, Lum M (April 2018). "1682f Partnerships to expand occupational safety and health content in wikipedia". Communications in Occupational Health. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd: A71.3–A72. doi:10.1136/oemed-2018-ICOHabstracts.205.
del Valle EP, García GL, Santamaria LP, Zanin M, Ruiz EM, González AR (June 2018). "Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding". 2018 IEEE 31st International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS). Karlstad: IEEE: 399–404. arXiv:1808.01459. doi:10.1109/CBMS.2018.00076. ISBN 978-1-5386-6060-7. S2CID 50776638.
Dehdarirad T, Didegah F, Sotudeh H (2018-09-11). "Which Type of Research is Cited More Often in Wikipedia? A Case Study of PubMed Research". STI 2018 Conference Proceedings: 604–611. hdl:1887/65240.
Lum M, Morata T, Burnett G (2018-04-01). "1674a Using wikipedia to build our osh community of practice: an general overview". Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 75 (Suppl 2): A74. doi:10.1136/oemed-2018-ICOHabstracts.213. ISSN 1351-0711.
Walker M, Murray H, Dawson J, Maggio L (2018-06-01). "50 Wikipedia culture and usage: a survey of first year medical students to determine barriers and facilitators". BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. 23 (Suppl 1): A25. doi:10.1136/bmjebm-2018-111024.50. ISSN 2515-446X. S2CID 158991359.

2017

Matheson D, Matheson-Monnet C (2017-09-30). "Wikipedia as Informal Self-Education for Clinical Decision-Making in Medical Practice". Open Medicine Journal. 4 (1): 15–25. doi:10.2174/1874220301704010015. ISSN 1874-2203.
Watad A, Bragazzi NL, Brigo F, Sharif K, Amital H, McGonagle D, et al. (July 2017). "Readability of Wikipedia Pages on Autoimmune Disorders: Systematic Quantitative Assessment". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 19 (7): e260. doi:10.2196/jmir.8225. PMC 5539385. PMID 28720555.
Maggio LA, Willinsky JM, Steinberg RM, Mietchen D, Wass JL, Dong T (2017). "Wikipedia as a gateway to biomedical research: The relative distribution and use of citations in the English Wikipedia". PLOS ONE. 12 (12): e0190046. Bibcode:2017PLoSO..1290046M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190046. PMC 5739466. PMID 29267345.
Church D, Feinstein D (August 2017). "The Manual Stimulation of Acupuncture Points in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Review of Clinical Emotional Freedom Techniques". Medical Acupuncture. 29 (4): 194–205. doi:10.1089/acu.2017.1213. PMC 5580368. PMID 28874920.
Shafee T, Das D, Masukume G, Häggström M (2017-01-15). "WikiJournal of Medicine, the first Wikipedia-integrated academic journal". WikiJournal of Medicine. 4 (1). doi:10.15347/wjm/2017.001.
Mandler MD (26 January 2017). "Glaring Chemical Errors Persist for Years on Wikipedia". Journal of Chemical Education. 94 (3): 271–272. Bibcode:2017JChEd..94..271M. doi:10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00478.
Shafee T, Mietchen D, Su AI (August 2017). "Academics can help shape Wikipedia". Science. 357 (6351): 557–558. Bibcode:2017Sci...357..557S. doi:10.1126/science.aao0462. PMID 28798122. S2CID 19075849. Archived from the original on 2017-10-29.
Shafee T, Masukume G, Kipersztok L, Das D, Häggström M, Heilman J (November 2017). "Evolution of Wikipedia's medical content: past, present and future". Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 71 (11): 1122–1129. doi:10.1136/jech-2016-208601. PMC 5847101. PMID 28847845.
Reilly T, Jackson W, Berger V, Candelario D (March 2017). "Accuracy and completeness of drug information in Wikipedia medication monographs". Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 57 (2): 193–196.e1. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2016.10.007. PMID 27866956.
Candelario DM, Vazquez V, Jackson W, Reilly T (28 January 2017). "Completeness, accuracy, and readability of Wikipedia as a reference for patient medication information". Journal of the American Pharmacists Association. 57 (2): 197–200.e1. doi:10.1016/j.japh.2016.12.063. PMID 28139458.
Azzam A (2017-06-22). "Embracing Wikipedia as a teaching and learning tool benefits health professional schools and the populations they serve". Innovations in Global Health Professions Education. doi:10.20421/ighpe2017.01. ISSN 2414-4398.
Al Tamime R (2017-05-06). "Behind The Wikipedia Medical Knowledge Factory: Understanding the Knowledge Dynamic Over Time". Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Chi Ea '17. Denver Colorado USA: ACM: 238–243. doi:10.1145/3027063.3027119. ISBN 978-1-4503-4656-6.
Schmidt L, Friedel J, Adams CE (17 October 2017). "SEED: a tool for disseminating systematic review data into Wikipedia". Systematic Reviews. 6 (1): 206. doi:10.1186/s13643-017-0607-3. ISSN 2046-4053. PMC 5645829. PMID 29041959.
Ledger, Thomas Stephen (September 2017). "Introduction to anatomy on Wikipedia". Journal of Anatomy. 231 (3): 430–432. doi:10.1111/joa.12640. PMC 5554820. PMID 28703298.

2016

Shane-Simpson C, Che E, Brooks PJ (31 July 2016). "Giving Psychology Away: Implementation of Wikipedia Editing in an Introductory Human Development Course". Psychology Learning & Teaching. 15 (3): 268–293. doi:10.1177/1475725716653081. S2CID 183084766.
James R (2016). "WikiProject Medicine: Creating Credibility in Consumer Health". Journal of Hospital Librarianship. 16 (4): 344–351. doi:10.1080/15323269.2016.1221284. S2CID 79020792.
Azzam A, Bresler D, Leon A, Maggio L, Whitaker E, Heilman J, et al. (February 2017). "Why Medical Schools Should Embrace Wikipedia: Final-Year Medical Student Contributions to Wikipedia Articles for Academic Credit at One School". Academic Medicine. 92 (2): 194–200. doi:10.1097/ACM.0000000000001381. PMC 5265689. PMID 27627633.
Masukume G, Kipersztok L, Das D, Shafee TM, Laurent MR, Heilman JM (November 2016). "Medical journals and Wikipedia: a global health matter". The Lancet. Global Health. 4 (11): e791. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30254-6. PMID 27765289.
Conell J, Bauer R, Glenn T, Alda M, Ardau R, Baune BT, et al. (December 2016). "Online information seeking by patients with bipolar disorder: results from an international multisite survey". International Journal of Bipolar Disorders. 4 (1): 17. doi:10.1186/s40345-016-0058-0. PMC 4995194. PMID 27552813. 33% preferred Wikipedia
Back DA, Behringer F, Haberstroh N, Ehlers JP, Sostmann K, Peters H (August 2016). "Learning management system and e-learning tools: an experience of medical students' usage and expectations". International Journal of Medical Education. 7: 267–273. doi:10.5116/ijme.57a5.f0f5. PMC 5018353. PMID 27544782. The participants valued lecture notes (73.7%) and Wikipedia (74%) as their most important online sources for knowledge acquisition.
Sebelefsky C, Voitl J, Karner D, Klein F, Voitl P, Böck A (August 2016). "Internet use of parents before attending a general pediatric outpatient clinic: does it change their information level and assessment of acute diseases?". BMC Pediatrics. 16: 129. doi:10.1186/s12887-016-0677-8. PMC 4991080. PMID 27538782. Most common online resources utilized for this purpose are websites run by doctors (61.3 %), the outpatient clinic's homepage (56.3 %), Google (40 %), Wikipedia (32.5 %)
Saparova D, Nolan NS (January 2016). "Evaluating the appropriateness of electronic information resources for learning". Journal of the Medical Library Association. 104 (1): 24–32. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.104.1.004. PMC 4722638. PMID 26807049. Judging by the learning outcomes, all three information resources were found appropriate for learning. (Wikipedia, AccessMedicine, UpToDate)
Torous J, Franzan J, O'Connor R, Mathew I, Keshavan M, Kitts R, Boland R (December 2015). "Psychiatry Residents' Use of Educational Websites: A Pilot Survey Study". Academic Psychiatry. 39 (6): 630–633. doi:10.1007/s40596-015-0335-8. PMID 26077007. S2CID 207500506. Residents reported utilizing online resources on average 68 % of the time, in comparison to 32 % on average for printed materials. Residents reported UpToDate, PubMed, and Wikipedia as the most visited websites and ranked each highly but for different purposes.
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Choi-Lundberg DL, Low TF, Patman P, Turner P, Sinha SN (2016). "Medical student preferences for self-directed study resources in gross anatomy". Anatomical Sciences Education. 9 (2): 150–160. doi:10.1002/ase.1549. PMID 26033851. S2CID 23191.
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2015

Putman TE, Burgstaller-Muehlbacher S, Waagmeester A, Wu C, Su AI, Good BM (2015). "Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes". Database. 2016: baw028. doi:10.1093/database/baw028. PMC 4822648. PMID 27022157.
Mitraka E, Waagmeester A, Burgstaller-Muehlbacher S, Schriml LM, Su AI, Good BM (2015). "Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond". bioRxiv 10.1101/031971.
Pfundner A, Schönberg T, Horn J, Boyce RD, Samwald M (May 2015). "Utilizing the Wikidata system to improve the quality of medical content in Wikipedia in diverse languages: a pilot study". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17 (5): e110. doi:10.2196/jmir.4163. PMC 4468594. PMID 25944105.
Nowrouzi B, Gohar B, Nowrouzi-Kia B, Garbaczewska M, Brewster K (April 2015). "An Examination of Scope, Completeness, Credibility, and Readability of Health, Medical, and Nutritional Information on the Internet: A Comparative Study of Wikipedia, WebMD, and the Mayo Clinic Websites". Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 39: S71. doi:10.1016/j.jcjd.2015.01.267. (conference abstract in journal supplement)
Herbert VG, Frings A, Rehatschek H, Richard G, Leithner A (March 2015). "Wikipedia--challenges and new horizons in enhancing medical education". BMC Medical Education. 15 (1): 32. doi:10.1186/s12909-015-0309-2. PMC 4384304. PMID 25879421.
Azer SA (March 2015). "Is Wikipedia a reliable learning resource for medical students? Evaluating respiratory topics". Advances in Physiology Education. 39 (1): 5–14. doi:10.1152/advan.00110.2014. PMID 25727464.
Heilman JM, West AG (March 2015). "Wikipedia and medicine: quantifying readership, editors, and the significance of natural language". Journal of Medical Internet Research. 17 (3): e62. doi:10.2196/jmir.4069. PMC 4376174. PMID 25739399.
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Murray T (March 2015). "WikiProject Medicine making progress". CMAJ. 187 (4): 245. doi:10.1503/cmaj.109-4982. PMC 4347770. PMID 25646285.
Brigo F, Erro R (June 2015). "The readability of the English Wikipedia article on Parkinson's disease". Neurological Sciences. 36 (6): 1045–1046. doi:10.1007/s10072-015-2077-5. PMID 25596713. S2CID 23254630.
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.

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