Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has quickly grown to become the largest electronic encyclopedia in the world. The English version alone contains over 4.7 million articles, and as of February 2014 there were nearly 500 million unique users and over 73,000 active editors.

Within those millions of articles exist hundreds of thousands of links to academic research. Publishers, institutions and researchers are increasingly moving to leverage the exposure and traffic that a reference on Wikipedia can generate for their content. 

Adding Wikipedia to the list of sources we track has been a goal of ours for a while, and in the course of working on an exciting new project with Springer, one of our customers (more on that at a later date), we had the chance to spend some time on it. We're really pleased to be able to announce that any mentions of articles or other academic outputs in Wikipedia will now be reflected in a new 'Wikipedia' tab on the Altmetric details page. 









Users can click on the article title to be taken to the original Wikipedia page, on the username of the person who added the reference to see their profile on Wikipedia, and on the date stamp to view the edit record for that article.

Want to find out more about how we track and visualize Wikipedia mentions? Check out our latest blog post for all the details.

Kind regards,
The Altmetric Team