Ruth’s Rankings 17: Wikipedia and Google Scholar as Sources for University Rankings – Influence and Popularity and Open Bibliometrics
By Ruth A. Pagell* (5 February 2016) In early December 2015, MIT’s Technology Review provided a summary of a new paper on using data from Wikipedia to rank the world’s most INFLUENTIAL universities. A month later, ACCESS posted the abstract for another paper that introduced Wikiometrics, also using data from Wikipedia to rank universities. In…