This is a list of academic articles related to the coverage of health and medical topics on Wikipedia. For general academic articles see Academic studies of Wikipedia . For academic studies about the use of Wikipedia in education, see Academic studies of Wikipedia in education . For popular media coverage of Wikipedia's medical content see the popular media list .
Yang, Kunhao; Tanaka, Mikihito (2023-06-29). "Crowdsourcing Knowledge Production of COVID-19 Information on Japanese Wikipedia in the Face of Uncertainty: Empirical Analysis" . Journal of Medical Internet Research . 25 : e45024. doi :10.2196/45024 ISSN 1438-8871 . PMC 10365582 PMID 37384371 . Ciechanowski, Kaśmir; Jemielniak, Dariusz; Silczuk, Andrzej (2023-09-14). "Public interests in mental health topics in COVID-19: evidence from Wikipedia searches" . Advances in Mental Health : 1–22. doi :10.1080/18387357.2023.2253936 . ISSN 1838-7357 . S2CID 261921528 . Hu, Bei (2023-11-23). "Negotiation, power and ethics in online collaborative translation: translation of "COVID-19" by Wikipedia translator-editors" . The Translator : 1–18. doi :10.1080/13556509.2023.2278224 . ISSN 1355-6509 . S2CID 265420073 . Avieson, Bunty (2022-11-07). "Editors, sources and the 'go back' button: Wikipedia's framework for beating misinformation" . First Monday . doi :10.5210/fm.v27i11.12754 ISSN 1396-0466 . 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 :10.1093/gigascience/giab095 . 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 doi :10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18054 . ISSN 2334-0770 . S2CID 222302637 . 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 . Potapov, A S; Alexandrova, E G; Yudina, E V; Ziganshina, L E (2021-08-08). "Improving the Russian-language Wikipedia articles on medicines using new knowledge Cochrane" . Kazan Medical Journal . 102 (4): 459–473. doi :10.17816/KMJ2021-459 . ISSN 2587-9359 . 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 cs.SI ].
Smith, Denise (2023-12-01). "Leveraging Wikipedia in undergraduate health sciences education: a key tool for information literacy and knowledge translation" . Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada . 44 (3). doi :10.29173/jchla29688 . ISSN 1708-6892 . Konieczny, Piotr (2023). "Where experts and amateurs meet: the ideological hobby of medical volunteering on Wikipedia" . WikiJournal of Medicine . 10 (1): 5. doi :10.15347/wjm/2023.005 Ciechanowski, Kaśmir; Jemielniak, Dariusz; Silczuk, Andrzej (2023-09-14). "Public interests in mental health topics in COVID-19: evidence from Wikipedia searches" . Advances in Mental Health : 1–22. doi :10.1080/18387357.2023.2253936 . ISSN 1838-7357 . S2CID 261921528 . Yang, Kunhao; Tanaka, Mikihito (2023-06-29). "Crowdsourcing Knowledge Production of COVID-19 Information on Japanese Wikipedia in the Face of Uncertainty: Empirical Analysis" . Journal of Medical Internet Research . 25 : e45024. doi :10.2196/45024 ISSN 1438-8871 . PMC 10365582 PMID 37384371 . Konieczny, Piotr (2023). "Where experts and amateurs meet: the ideological hobby of medical volunteering on Wikipedia" . WikiJournal of Medicine . 10 (1): 5. doi :10.15347/wjm/2023.005 Smith, Denise A. (2023-08-12). " . First Monday . doi :10.5210/fm.v28i8.12897 ISSN 1396-0466 . Smith, Denise A. (2023-04-03). "It's Time to Recognize Wikipedia as a Health Information Resource" . Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet . 27 (2): 210–220. doi :10.1080/15398285.2023.2211498 . hdl :10464/17862 . ISSN 1539-8285 . S2CID 258910905 . Azer, Samy A.; Alsharafi, Aya A. (2023-06-01). "Can pharmacy students use Wikipedia as a learning resource? Critical assessment of articles on chemotherapeutic drugs" . Advances in Physiology Education . 47 (2): 333–345. doi :10.1152/advan.00212.2022 . ISSN 1043-4046 . PMID 36951631 . Alibudbud, Rowalt (2023-07-04). "Wikipedia page views for health research: a review" . Frontiers in Big Data . 6 . doi :10.3389/fdata.2023.1199060 ISSN 2624-909X . PMC 10353851 PMID 37469441 . Montilha, Alexandre; Morata, Thais C.; Flor, Daiana A.; Machado, Maria Aparecida; Menegon, Fabricio A.; Zucki, Fernanda (2023-04-06). "The Promotion of Hearing Health through Wikipedia Campaigns: Article Quality and Reach Assessment" . Healthcare . 11 (11): 1572. doi :10.3390/healthcare11111572 ISSN 2078-2489 . PMC 10252918 PMID 37297712 . Hu, Bei (2023-11-23). "Negotiation, power and ethics in online collaborative translation: translation of "COVID-19" by Wikipedia translator-editors" . The Translator : 1–18. doi :10.1080/13556509.2023.2278224 . ISSN 1355-6509 . S2CID 265420073 . Masoni, Marco; Di Grazia, Omar; Guelfi, Maria Renza (2023-12-31). "Updating Wikipedia in the School of Dentistry of the University of Florence" . Form@re - Open Journal per la Formazione in Rete . 23 (3): 169–185. doi :10.36253/form-14386 . ISSN 1825-7321 .
Santangelo, Omar Enzo; Gianfredi, Vincenza; Provenzano, Sandro (2022-10-29). "Wikipedia searches and the epidemiology of infectious diseases: A systematic review" . Data & Knowledge Engineering . 142 : 102093. doi :10.1016/j.datak.2022.102093 . S2CID 252945115 . Avieson, Bunty (2022-11-07). "Editors, sources and the 'go back' button: Wikipedia's framework for beating misinformation" . First Monday . doi :10.5210/fm.v27i11.12754 ISSN 1396-0466 . Epstein, Helen-Ann Brown (2022-04-03). "Health Information on Wikipedia: Can You Trust It?" . Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet . 26 (2): 218–224. doi :10.1080/15398285.2022.2069391 . ISSN 1539-8285 . S2CID 249680137 . Mostafa, Mohamed M. (2022-12-05). "Two decades of Wikipedia research: a PubMed bibliometric network analysis" . Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication . 71 (8/9): 947–971. doi :10.1108/GKMC-03-2021-0056 . ISSN 2514-9342 . S2CID 240489525 . Alibudbud, Rowalt; Cleofas, Jerome V. (2022-11-08). "Global utilization of online information for substance use disorder: An infodemiological study of Google and Wikipedia from 2004 to 2022" . Journal of Nursing Scholarship . 55 (3): 665–680. doi :10.1111/jnu.12844 . ISSN 1527-6546 . PMID 36345730 . S2CID 253396785 . Luo, Jianchen; Ma, Jing; Xu, Liangliang; Wang, Peng; Zhang, Ming; Xu, Mingqing (October 2022). "Assessment of the digestive system malignancy information in Wikipedia and Baidu Encyclopedia: a longitudinal study" . Annals of Translational Medicine . 10 (20): 1112. doi :10.21037/atm-22-4435 PMC 9652516 PMID 36388827 . Ciechanowski, Kaśmir; Banasik-Jemielniak, Natalia; Jemielniak, Dariusz (2022-10-12). "What's hot and what's not in lay psychology: Wikipedia's most-viewed articles" . Current Psychology : 1–13. doi :10.1007/s12144-022-03826-0 . ISSN 1936-4733 . PMC 9553632 PMID 36248218 . Nainar, S. M. Hashim (2022-06-24). "Dental student editing of Wikipedia articles" . Journal of Dental Education . 87 : 1834–1835. doi :10.1002/jdd.13032 . ISSN 1930-7837 . PMID 35748156 . S2CID 249988898 . Moscovici, Khen; Arie, Gal Ben; Shelef, Ilan; Kalet, Adina (2022-05-16). "Creating Wikipedia articles on health and technology topics can empower the writers and benefit the community" . BMC Medical Education . 22 (1): 373. doi :10.1186/s12909-022-03389-5 ISSN 1472-6920 . PMC 9109402 PMID 35578333 . Gordejeva, Jelizaveta; Zowalla, Richard; Pobiruchin, Monika; Wiesner, Martin (2022-05-16). "Readability of English, German, and Russian Disease-Related Wikipedia Pages: Automated Computational Analysis" . Journal of Medical Internet Research . 24 (5): e36835. doi :10.2196/36835 PMC 9152717 PMID 35576562 . Mondia, Mark Willy L.; Espiritu, Adrian I.; Jamora, Roland Dominic G. (2022). "Brain Tumor Infodemiology: Worldwide Online Health-Seeking Behavior Using Google Trends and Wikipedia Pageviews" . Frontiers in Oncology . 12 : 855534. doi :10.3389/fonc.2022.855534 ISSN 2234-943X . PMC 9061992 PMID 35515112 . Döring, Nicola; Lehmann, Stephan; Schumann-Doermer, Claudia (2022-06-01). "Verhütung in der deutschsprachigen Wikipedia: Eine Inhalts- und Qualitätsanalyse" [Contraception in the German-language Wikipedia: a content and quality analysis]. Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz (in German). 65 (6): 706–717. doi :10.1007/s00103-022-03537-8 . ISSN 1437-1588 . PMC 9132820 PMID 35471607 . 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 :10.1093/gigascience/giab095 . 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 . 85 (4): 308–312. 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 (3): 696–708. doi :10.1108/JD-03-2021-0049 . hdl :11375/26812 . ISSN 0022-0418 . S2CID 238688069 . Couto L, Lopes CT (2021-04-19). "Assessing the quality of health-related Wikipedia articles with generic and specific metrics". In Leskovec J, Grobelnik M, Najork M, Tang J, Zia L (eds.). Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2021 . Ljubljana Slovenia: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 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 . PMC 10501522 PMID 37632806 . 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 . Nucci, Daniele; Santangelo, Omar Enzo; Nardi, Mariateresa; Provenzano, Sandro; Gianfredi, Vincenza (20 October 2021). "Wikipedia, Google Trends and Diet: Assessment of Temporal Trends in the Internet Users' Searches in Italy before and during COVID-19 Pandemic" . Nutrients . 13 (11): 3683. doi :10.3390/nu13113683 ISSN 2072-6643 . PMC 8620684 PMID 34835939 . 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. pp. 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. arXiv :2010.14903 Bibcode :2021PLoSO..1656858D . 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 . 49 (6): 705–708. 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 . Potapov, A S; Alexandrova, E G; Yudina, E V; Ziganshina, L E (2021-08-08). "Improving the Russian-language Wikipedia articles on medicines using new knowledge Cochrane" . Kazan Medical Journal . 102 (4): 459–473. doi :10.17816/KMJ2021-459 . ISSN 2587-9359 . 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 doi :10.1609/icwsm.v15i1.18054 . ISSN 2334-0770 . S2CID 222302637 . 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
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