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Wikimedia Foundation

wikimediafoundation.orgROR OpenAlex
Research works
105
▼ 30% vs 2018-21
Citations
1.8k
17.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
7.4%
all institutions 10.0%
Open access
72%
world 40%
International
28%
world 18%
Wikimedia Foundation

Not ranked overall: Wikimedia Foundation is under the volume floor below which an excellence rate is noise. Not ranked is not the same as ranked last.

Which fields of science does Wikimedia Foundation work in?

In 2022-now, 59% of research at Wikimedia Foundation is in Social Sciences, 29% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (50%), Computer Science (26%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (5%). It does 2.0× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 18 fractional works · 59.3% of its workSocial Sciences: 15 fractional works · 50.0% of its workCommunication: 10 fractional works · 32.5% of its workSociology and Political Science: 2 fractional works · 6.5% of its workAnthropology: 1 fractional works · 3.8% of its workUrban Studies: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 1 fractional works · 1.9% of its workEducation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSafety Research: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workHealth: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1 fractional works · 3.4% of its workManagement Information Systems: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workManagement of Technology and Innovation: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workStrategy and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workArts and Humanities: 1 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMuseology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workArcheology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHistory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPsychology: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.2% of its workDecision Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.7% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 0 fractional works · 0.3% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workPhysical Sciences: 9 fractional works · 29.4% of its workComputer Science: 8 fractional works · 26.1% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 3 fractional works · 9.8% of its workInformation Systems: 3 fractional works · 9.6% of its workComputer Science Applications: 2 fractional works · 5.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workEngineering: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workMechanical Engineering: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workControl and Systems Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workIndustrial and Manufacturing Engineering: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workEnvironmental Science: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEcological Modeling: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLife Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.9% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workMolecular Biology: 1 fractional works · 4.7% of its workImmunology and Microbiology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workVirology: 0 fractional works · 0.8% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 2 fractional works · 5.4% of its workHealth Professions: 1 fractional works · 3.7% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 1 fractional works · 2.3% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 0 fractional works · 1.5% of its workMedicine: 0 fractional works · 1.7% of its workCardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine: 0 fractional works · 1.1% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 0 fractional works · 0.6% of its workALL ITS WORKWikimediaFoundation30fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences6%Physical Sciences29%Health Sciences5%Social Sciences59%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 14 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences1550.0%
    2. Business, Management and Accounting13.4%
    3. Arts and Humanities13.0%
    4. Psychology01.7%
    5. Decision Sciences00.7%
    6. Economics, Econometrics and Finance00.6%
    1. Computer Science826.1%
    2. Engineering12.3%
    3. Environmental Science01.1%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology14.7%
    2. Immunology and Microbiology00.8%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences00.4%
    1. Health Professions13.7%
    2. Medicine01.7%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.87× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 0.84× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 3.35× its world share, 8 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.15× its world share, 1 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.23× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 1.42× its world share, 1 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 1.02× its world share, 1 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.05× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.73× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.54× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.95× its world share, 15 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Social Sciences, 4.0×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 14 fields, with their numbers
  1. Social Sciences3.95×15 works
  2. Computer Science3.35×8 works
  3. Health Professions1.42×1 works
  4. Business, Management and Accounting1.05×1 works
  5. Arts and Humanities1.02×1 works
  6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.87×1 works
  7. Immunology and Microbiology0.84×0 works
  8. Decision Sciences0.73×0 works
  9. Psychology0.54×0 works
  10. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.26×0 works
  11. Environmental Science0.23×0 works
  12. Engineering0.15×1 works
  13. Medicine0.09×0 works
  14. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.08×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Wikimedia Foundation?

Ranked on the quality score, Aaron Halfaker, Isaac L. Johnson and Dario Taraborelli lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Wikimedia Foundation.

  1. 1 Aaron Halfaker United States · #199,975 worldwide 2.4k citations · 114 works
  2. 2 Isaac L. Johnson United States · #591,410 worldwide 1.9k citations · 79 works
  3. 3 Dario Taraborelli United States · #1,120,098 worldwide 1.3k citations · 100 works
  4. 4 Leila Zia United States · #1,144,714 worldwide 411 citations · 36 works
  5. 5 Мириам Реди United States · #2,546,155 worldwide 1k citations · 103 works
  6. 6 Anna Filippova United States · #3,794,611 worldwide 81 citations · 18 works
All ranked researchers at Wikimedia Foundation

What are the most cited papers from Wikimedia Foundation?

The most cited paper from Wikimedia Foundation is "Ex Machina" (Ellery Wulczyn, Nithum Thain, Lucas Dixon, 2017), with 659 citations. Next come "The Altmetrics Collection" (287) and "Value-Sensitive Algorithm Design" (227).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Ex Machina Ellery Wulczyn, Nithum Thain, Lucas Dixon Conference paperOpen access 3 Apr 2017 659
2 The Altmetrics Collection Jason R Priem, Paul Thomas Groth, Dario Taraborelli · PLoS ONE Open access Nov 2012 287
3 Value-Sensitive Algorithm Design Haiyi Zhu, Bowen Yu, Aaron Halfaker et al. · Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction Nov 2018 227
4 Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale Ellery Wulczyn, Nithum Thain, Lucas Dixon · arXiv (Cornell University) PreprintOpen access 27 Oct 2016 206
5 Conversations Gone Awry: Detecting Early Signs of Conversational Failure Justine H. Zhang, Jonathan P. Chang, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil et al. Conference paperOpen access 2018 182
All 61 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Wikimedia Foundation?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Knowledge Management, Information Quality, Online Communities, Wikipedia, Social Media and Educational Technology.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 24 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 24 words, with their numbers
  1. Collaboration10▲ 668×3 topics
  2. Crowdsourcing10▲ 489×2 topics
  3. Knowledge Management10▲ 58×3 topics
  4. Information Quality9▲ 516×2 topics
  5. Online Communities9▲ 1885×1 topic
  6. Wikipedia9▲ 5070×1 topic
  7. Social Media3▲ 7.0×8 topics
  8. Educational Technology2▲ 7.1×6 topics
  9. Innovation2▲ 5.8×5 topics
  10. Technology Integration2▲ 20×2 topics
  11. Online Learning2▲ 6.8×3 topics
  12. Digital Literacy2▲ 9.1×3 topics
  13. Academic Libraries1▲ 214×1 topic
  14. Neural Networks1▲ 3.1×3 topics
  15. Web 2.01▲ 643×1 topic
  16. Information Retrieval1▲ 21×2 topics
  17. Social Determinants of Health1▲ 21×2 topics
  18. Topic Modeling1▲ 29×2 topics
  19. Machine Learning1▲ 1.18×4 topics
  20. Machine Translation1▲ 24×1 topic
  21. Teacher Training1▲ 6.4×2 topics
  22. Word Representation1▲ 32×1 topic
  23. Artificial Intelligence1▲ 2.5×4 topics
  24. Big Data1▲ 3.7×5 topics

Which research topics does Wikimedia Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Wikis in Education and Collaboration, Web and Library Services, Topic Modeling and Open Source Software Innovations.

Wikis in Education and C…9Wikis in Education and Collaboration: 9 fractional worksWeb and Library Services: 1 fractional worksTopic Modeling: 1 fractional worksOpen Source Software Innovations: 1 fractional worksEducation and Digital Technologies: 1 fractional worksCancer-related gene regulation: 1 fractional worksHealthcare Systems and Practices: 1 fractional worksSocial Policies and Family: 1 fractional worksSocial Sciences and Governance: 1 fractional worksKnowledge Management and Sharing: 1 fractional works
CommunicationInformation SystemsArtificial IntelligenceComputer Science Applications4 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Wikis in Education and Collaboration Communication 9 works
  2. 2 Web and Library Services Information Systems 1 works
  3. 3 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  4. 4 Open Source Software Innovations Computer Science Applications 1 works
  5. 5 Education and Digital Technologies Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  6. 6 Cancer-related gene regulation Molecular Biology 1 works
  7. 7 Healthcare Systems and Practices General Health Professions 1 works
  8. 8 Social Policies and Family Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  9. 9 Social Sciences and Governance Urban Studies 1 works
  10. 10 Knowledge Management and Sharing Communication 1 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available72.3%not open27.7%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors28.5%domestic only71.5%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Wikimedia Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% lower than in 2018-2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Wikimedia Foundation as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.000075% in 2024.

still counting0.00010%0.00020%0.00030%Wikimedia Foundation0.00011% in 202520102020

Fractional works of Wikimedia Foundation over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

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