EduWiki Conference 2023/Program/WikiJournal
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Publishing Wikipedia peer-reviewed articles with WikiJournal- Andrew Leung
- Athikhun Suwannakhan
Time: 11:50 - 12:15
Room: Forum Room
Abstract:
While most of the attention and initiatives around various wiki education program are focused on reaching younger audiences, WikiJournal is diversifying the reach by targeting academics with no Wikimedia experience and Wikimedians with no academic publishing experience. This initial began in 2014. It is a set of open-access, peer-reviewed academic journals with no publishing cost to authors. Currently it has 3 journals: medicine (WikiJournal of Medicine), science (WikiJournal of Science) and humanities (WikiJournal of Humanities). Its goal is to provide free, quality-assured knowledge and bridge the Academia-Wikipedia gap by enabling expert contributions in the traditional academic publishing format to improve Wikipedia contents,[1] similar to other education programs. In this session, we showcased the publishing flow of articles from submission, peer review to acceptance. Our data showed that there is a general upward trend of peer reviewers willing to publicly disclose their identities and have them associated with their review comments. As of May 2023, WikiJournal published 53 articles in medicine, 31 articles in science and 8 articles in humanities fields. Even though WikiJournal of Medicine has published more articles, WikiJournal of Science articles received higher readership average from academics based on Digital Object Identifier (DOI) statistics. According to data by Dimensions in November 2022, WikiJournal of Medicine and WikiJournal of Science receive an average of 5.04 and 1.34 citations per published article respectively. Both of these journals are indexed by Scopus. We presented interesting findings such as the high demand for high-quality images with copyleft licensing. We published the first non-English article in 2020, with the article dual-published in Nepali and English. We also demonstrated how the EduWiki Conference audiences could get involved by submitting articles, participating in public peer review or joining the editorial board for one of its journals. In the future, we aim to be included in more indexes such as Web Of Science and contribute to open publishing discussions.
- ↑ WikiJSci editorial board; Shafee, Thomas (2018-06-01). "The aims and scope of WikiJournal of Science". WikiJournal of Science 1 (1): 1. doi:10.15347/wjs/2018.001.