Patient-Oriented Cancer Information on the Internet: A Comparison of Wikipedia and a Professionally Maintained Database

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Oncology Practice, August 2011

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news: 6 news outlets
blogs: 1 blog
twitter: 14 X users

wikipedia: 8 Wikipedia pages
reddit: 9 Redditors

Readers on

mendeley: 66 Mendeley

So far, Altmetric has seen 15 X posts from 14 X users, with an upper bound of 54,871 followers.

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@windriderz49 @TatcoinNews @XRayHutch @carljackmiller @WIRED It’s not hard to verify information on Wikipedia. It’s a *great* starting point and when used appropriately in an academic setting, a very powerful research tool. Teach your students critical th…

RT @IamMrJ: (Wikipedia is rated as being as valid as other ~expert curated~ knowledge sources eg https://t.co/FBGsy8gs1n)

RT @ralanshirley: Wikipedia is actually quite a good quality medical info source e.g. for Oncology http://t.co/CxPlxvdHNC

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