Submitted by Emma Bonsall on Thu, 05/02/2015 - 09:46
Wikipedia references to research outputs can now be tracked using Altmetric. The data can be found in a new Wikipedia tab on the Altmetric details pages, and users can click through to see the original wikipedia article, author profile, and associated record. Wikipedia mentions will be represented by a dark grey colour in the Altmetric donut and any mention (or multiple mentions) will add a flat count of 3 to the score.
More information about how the data is tracked and collated can be found on the Altmetric website here www.altmetric.com/blog/new-source-alert-wikipedia/
Initially, only the English language version of Wikipedia is being tracked but Altmetric plan to add all the other language versions over the next few months.
Click here to begin exploring Wikipedia data in Altmetric