Wiki-index of authors popularity
D.V. Lande, V.B. Andrushchenko, I.V. Balagura

TL;DR
This paper introduces the Wikipedia Index (WI), a new popularity measure for authors based on Wikipedia analysis, offering a broader perspective on influence beyond traditional citation metrics.
Contribution
The paper proposes a novel Wikipedia-based index for author popularity, including algorithms and methods for its calculation and application within subject domains.
Findings
The Wikipedia Index effectively measures author popularity within specific knowledge areas.
Algorithms for calculating WI are demonstrated with examples for prominent researchers.
The method helps avoid homonym confusion and captures the entire subject domain influence.
Abstract
The new index of the author's popularity estimation is represented in the paper. The index is calculated on the basis of Wikipedia encyclopedia analysis (Wikipedia Index - WI). Unlike the conventional existed citation indices, the suggested mark allows to evaluate not only the popularity of the author, as it can be done by means of calculating the general citation number or by the Hirsch index, which is often used to measure the author's research rate. The index gives an opportunity to estimate the author's popularity, his/her influence within the sought-after area "knowledge area" in the Internet - in the Wikipedia. The suggested index is supposed to be calculated in frames of the subject domain, and it, on the one hand, avoids the mistaken computation of the homonyms, and on the other hand - provides the entirety of the subject area. There are proposed algorithms and the technique of…
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TopicsWikis in Education and Collaboration
