Gender and country biases in Wikipedia citations to scholarly publications
研究利用Web of Science和维基百科引用数据，通过精确匹配发现女性作者和非英语国家作者的学术出版物在维基百科中被引用的概率较低，且这种不平等在数学密集型STEM领域尤为突出。
Abstract Ensuring Wikipedia cites scholarly publications based on quality and relevancy without biases is critical to credible and fair knowledge dissemination. We investigate gender‐ and country‐based biases in Wikipedia citation practices using linked data from the Web of Science and a Wikipedia citation dataset. Using coarsened exact matching, we show that publications by women are cited less by Wikipedia than expected, and publications by women are less likely to be cited than those by men. Scholarly publications by authors affiliated with non‐Anglosphere countries are also disadvantaged in getting cited by Wikipedia, compared with those by authors affiliated with Anglosphere countries. The level of gender‐ or country‐based inequalities varies by research field, and the gender‐country intersectional bias is prominent in math‐intensive STEM fields. To ensure the credibility and equality of knowledge presentation, Wikipedia should consider strategies and guidelines to cite scholarly publications independent of the gender and country of authors.