Wiktionary Popularity from a Citation Analysis Point of View

Noruzi, Alireza Wiktionary Popularity from a Citation Analysis Point of View. Informology, 2023, vol. 2, n. 1, pp. 1-6. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Wiktionary is a collaborative web-based project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary of terms in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages. This study aims to provide an overview of the citation rate of Wiktionary. The primary source of data utilized in this study was the Scopus database. A REFERENCE search was conducted for indexed citations in the Scopus citation index, to find citations to Wiktionary in June 2023. Bibliometrix was used to design the keyword co-occurrence network of author-supplied keywords of documents citing Wiktionary. This study determines to what extent the Wiktionary is used and cited by papers indexed in Scopus. The total number of citations to Wiktionary from 2006 was 1,766 of which the highest number of citations is 161 in the year 2017 and the lowest number of citations is five in the year 2006. Wiktionary is highly cited by the subject areas of computer science, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The analysis of the language distribution of citations to Wiktionary indicates that the authors of citing papers used Wiktionary in different languages. However, the English language was the most dominant language of citing documents with 1,642 citations (i.e., 93%). Wiktionary was cited 1,766 times in Scopus by different languages (especially English, German, and French) in different countries (especially the U.S. with 335 citations, Germany with 295 citations, and France with 122 citations) mainly by the subject areas of computer science, social sciences, and arts and humanities. The significance of Wiktionary from a citation analysis point of view goes well beyond open access and enhanced opportunities for citation in linguistics, natural language processing systems, computational linguistics, semantics, and ontology.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	Wiktionary, Citation analysis, Bibliometric
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW.
Depositing user:	Dr. Alireza Noruzi
Date deposited:	27 Jul 2023 04:36
Last modified:	27 Jul 2023 04:36
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44590

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Noruzi, A. (2009). Editorial: Wikipedia popularity from a citation analysis point of view. Webology, 6(2), editorial 20, 1-3. http://www.webology.org/2009/v6n2/editorial20.html

Perianes-Rodriguez, A., Waltman, L., and van Eck, N. J. (2016). Constructing bibliometric networks: A comparison between full and fractional counting. Journal of Informetrics, 10(4), 1178-1195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2016.10.006

Wiktionary (2023). Wiktionary, the free dictionary. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page

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