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Wikimedia Foundation

wikimediafoundation.orgROR OpenAlex
Research works
105
▲ 4% vs 2013–17
Citations
1.8k
17.4 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
16.1%
record average 16.5%
Open access
72%
world 28%

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.

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: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.23× its world share, 1 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 1.19× its world share, 0 worksImmunology and Micro…Computer Science: 3.30× its world share, 5 worksComputer ScienceEngineering: 0.11× its world share, 0 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.32× its world share, 0 worksEnvironmental ScienceHealth Professions: 0.20× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 0.62× its world share, 0 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 1.48× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.03× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.37× its world share, 0 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 0.76× its world share, 0 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 3.95× its world share, 10 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.

Who are the top researchers at Wikimedia Foundation?

Ranked on the composite score, Aaron Halfaker and Diego Sáez-Trumper lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Wikimedia Foundation.

  1. 1 Aaron Halfaker United States · #575,675 worldwide 90 citations · 22 works
  2. 2 Diego Sáez-Trumper United States · #1,221,010 worldwide 47 citations · 19 works
All ranked researchers at Wikimedia Foundation

Which keywords describe research at Wikimedia Foundation?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Crowdsourcing, Information Quality, Online Communities, Wikipedia, Educational Technology and Online Learning.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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 12 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 12 words, with their numbers
  1. Collaboration8▲ 754×3 topics
  2. Knowledge Management8▲ 68×3 topics
  3. Crowdsourcing8▲ 562×2 topics
  4. Information Quality7▲ 595×2 topics
  5. Online Communities7▲ 2502×1 topic
  6. Wikipedia7▲ 5889×1 topic
  7. Educational Technology2▲ 10×6 topics
  8. Online Learning2▲ 9.5×3 topics
  9. Digital Literacy2▲ 12×3 topics
  10. Innovation2▲ 6.6×5 topics
  11. Social Media1▲ 4.1×5 topics
  12. Teacher Training1▲ 8.9×2 topics

Which research topics does Wikimedia Foundation publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Wikis in Education and Collaboration, Topic Modeling, Cancer-related gene regulation and Education and Digital Technologies.

Wikis in Education and C…7Wikis in Education and Collaboration: 7 fractional worksTopic Modeling: 1 fractional worksCancer-related gene regulation: 1 fractional worksEducation and Digital Technologies: 1 fractional worksInnovative Educational Technologies: 0 fractional worksOpen Education and E-Learning: 0 fractional worksWeb and Library Services: 0 fractional worksInformation Systems and Technology Applications: 0 fractional worksOpen Source Software Innovations: 0 fractional worksICT in Developing Communities: 0 fractional works
CommunicationArtificial IntelligenceMolecular BiologySociology and Political Science3 others

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

  1. 1 Wikis in Education and Collaboration Communication 7 works
  2. 2 Topic Modeling Artificial Intelligence 1 works
  3. 3 Cancer-related gene regulation Molecular Biology 1 works
  4. 4 Education and Digital Technologies Sociology and Political Science 1 works
  5. 5 Innovative Educational Technologies Information Systems 0 works
  6. 6 Open Education and E-Learning Computer Science Applications 0 works
  7. 7 Web and Library Services Information Systems 0 works
  8. 8 Information Systems and Technology Applications Management Information Systems 0 works
  9. 9 Open Source Software Innovations Computer Science Applications 0 works
  10. 10 ICT in Developing Communities Information Systems 0 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: 28% of research is openly available.

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

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Wikimedia Foundation's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 4% higher than in 2013–2017.

201020152020
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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.

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