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Wikis in Education and Collaboration

Wikis in Education and Collaboration is a research topic within Communication. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1954. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the collaboration, dynamics, and information quality within the context of Wikipedia. It explores topics such as knowledge management, online communities, peer production, and social dynamics in the context of open collaboration and crowdsourcing on Wikipedia.

  • Wikipedia
  • collaboration
  • knowledge management
  • online communities
  • information quality
  • peer production
  • social dynamics
  • wikis
  • open collaboration
  • crowdsourcing
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1954
In the world top 10%
1k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-22%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
41% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Wikis in Education and Collaboration

Which countries lead Wikis in Education and Collaboration research?

By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (378 and 109 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 378 works
  2. 2 Germany 109 works
  3. 3 China 97 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 65 works
  5. 5 India 59 works
  6. 6 Canada 52 works
  7. 7 Spain 51 works
  8. 8 France 45 works
  9. 9 Türkiye 36 works
  10. 10 Australia 36 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 40.7%Germany: 11.8%China: 10.5%United Kingdom: 7.0%6 others listed: 30.1%41%largest
United States378 · 40.7%Germany109 · 11.8%China97 · 10.5%United Kingdom65 · 7.0%6 others listed279 · 30.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Wikis in Education and Collaboration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Wikis in Education and Collaboration research, followed by Leibniz Association and Wikimedia Foundation.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 12 works
  2. 2 Leibniz AssociationGermany 10 works
  3. 3 Wikimedia FoundationUnited States 9 works
  4. 4 Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 8 works
  5. 5 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 8 works
  6. 6 Częstochowa University of TechnologyPoland 7 works
  7. 7 University of WashingtonUnited States 6 works
  8. 8 University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States 6 works
  9. 9 University of British ColumbiaCanada 6 works
  10. 10 Stanford UniversityUnited States 5 works

Who are the leading researchers in Wikis in Education and Collaboration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Wikis in Education and Collaboration include Alex Bateman and Mark Damian Griffiths.

  1. 1 Alex Bateman United Kingdom 149k citations
  2. 2 Mark Damian Griffiths United Kingdom 133k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Wikis in Education and Collaboration?

The most cited paper in Wikis in Education and Collaboration is "DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data" (Sören Auer, Christian Bizer, Georgi Kobilarov et al., 2007), with 4,804 citations. Next come "Wikidata" (3,414) and "DBpedia – A large-scale, multilingual knowledge base extracted from Wikipedia" (3,239).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 DBpedia: A Nucleus for a Web of Open Data Sören Auer, Christian Bizer, Georgi Kobilarov et al. · Lecture notes in computer science Conference paperOpen access 2007 4,804
2 Wikidata Denny Vrandečić, Markus Krötzsch · Communications of the ACM Open access 23 Sep 2014 3,414
3 DBpedia – A large-scale, multilingual knowledge base extracted from Wikipedia Jens Lehmann, Robert Isele, Max Jakob et al. · Semantic Web Open access 2015 3,239
4 Social Ties and Word-of-Mouth Referral Behavior Jacqueline Johnson Brown, Peter H. Reingen · Journal of Consumer Research Dec 1987 2,406
5 Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia Melanie Remy · Reference Reviews Jun 2002 2,370
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Where is Wikis in Education and Collaboration research done?

The largest centres of Wikis in Education and Collaboration research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Berlin (Germany).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 18 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 16 works
  3. 3 New YorkUnited States 14 works
  4. 4 BerlinGermany 14 works
  5. 5 ParisFrance 14 works
  6. 6 MelbourneAustralia 12 works
  7. 7 San FranciscoUnited States 11 works
  8. 8 PittsburghUnited States 11 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 10 works
  10. 10 ViennaAustria 10 works
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Where is the best place to study Wikis in Education and Collaboration?

Among universities, judged by research, Universidad de Zaragoza score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Universidad de ZaragozaSpain 10.022.8%15.0×8 +77.7%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Wikis in Education and Collaboration, country by country

Is Wikis in Education and Collaboration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 22% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Wikis in Education and Collaboration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0058% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%Wikis in Education and Collaboration0.0057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Wikis in Education and Collaboration over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Wikis in Education and Collaboration9.8% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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