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Wikipedia – challenges and new horizons in enhancing medical education

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medical Education, March 2015
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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28 tweeters
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3 Wikipedia pages

Citations

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Title
Wikipedia – challenges and new horizons in enhancing medical education
Published in
BMC Medical Education, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12909-015-0309-2
Pubmed ID
25879421
Authors

Verena G Herbert, Andreas Frings, Herwig Rehatschek, Gisbert Richard, Andreas Leithner

Abstract

Wikipedia gains growing attention as a provider of health information. This study aimed to investigate the use, relevance and challenges of Wikipedia among medical students. An online questionnaire was made accessible to students at five medical universities in Germany, Austria, and Norway. Besides demographical data, the questions covered the role of Wikipedia in the academic life of medical students. The questionnaire investigated if the students had ever found erroneous medical entries and whether they corrected these. A frequent use of Wikipedia in general is statistically significant correlated with a frequent use in medical studies (p < 0.001). Information retrieved from Wikipedia is predominantly critically appraised either by comparing it to profound knowledge (79%) and/or to specific literature (75%). Despite most (97%) respondents disclosed that they already had found false information in Wikipedia, recognized errors were seldomly corrected (~20%). The information retrieved from Wikipedia is critically appraised. However, we found shortcomings in handling erroneous entries. We argue for professional responsibility among medical students in dealing with this dynamic resource. Moreover, we encourage medical schools to supplement information to Wikipedia to further benefit from the vast possibilities of this platform.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 58 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 10 17%
Student > Master 10 17%
Student > Bachelor 8 14%
Student > Postgraduate 6 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 7%
Other 14 24%
Unknown 7 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 21 36%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 8%
Computer Science 5 8%
Social Sciences 4 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 5%
Other 12 20%
Unknown 9 15%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 21. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 May 2021.
All research outputs
#1,566,020
of 23,208,901 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Education
#181
of 3,414 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#21,138
of 259,319 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Education
#7
of 62 outputs
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