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Rodriguez Gonzalez, AlejandroAuthorDel Valle E.p.g.Corresponding AuthorPrieto Santamaría L.AuthorZanin MAuthorRuíz EmAuthor

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June 27, 2019
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Evaluating Wikipedia as a Source of Information for Disease Understanding

Publicated to: Proceedings Of The Ieee Symposium On Computer-Based Medical Systems. 2018-June 399-404 - 2018-07-20 2018-June(), DOI: 10.1109/CBMS.2018.00076

Authors:

del Valle, EPG; Garcia, GL; Santamaria, LP; Zanin, M; Rodríguez-González, A; Ruiz, EM
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Tecnol Biomed, ETS Ingenieros Informat, Pozuelo De Alarcon, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Tecnol Biomed, Pozuelo De Alarcon, Spain - Author
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
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Abstract

© 2018 IEEE. The increasing availability of biological data is improving our understanding of diseases and providing new insight into their underlying relationships. Thanks to the improvements on both text mining techniques and computational capacity, the combination of biological data with semantic information obtained from medical publications has proven to be a very promising path. However, the limitations in the access to these data and their lack of structure pose challenges to this approach. In this document we propose the use of Wikipedia - the free online encyclopedia - as a source of accessible textual information for disease understanding research. To check its validity, we compare its performance in the determination of relationships between diseases with that of PubMed, one of the most consulted data sources of medical texts. The obtained results suggest that the information extracted from Wikipedia is as relevant as that obtained from PubMed abstracts (i.e. the free access portion of its articles), although further research is proposed to verify its reliability for medical studies.
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Keywords

Disease similarityDisease understandingText miningWikipedia

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Proceedings Of The Ieee Symposium On Computer-Based Medical Systems, Q3 Agency Scopus (SJR), its regional focus and specialization in Computer Science Applications, give it significant recognition in a specific niche of scientific knowledge at an international level.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-12-21:

  • Google Scholar: 23
  • WoS: 13
  • Scopus: 14
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-12-21:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 17.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 17 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 12.
  • The number of mentions on the social network Facebook: 1 (Altmetric).
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 17 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (GARCÍA DEL VALLE, EDUARDO PANTALEÓN) and Last Author (González AR).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been GARCÍA DEL VALLE, EDUARDO PANTALEÓN.

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