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Table 3 Overview of Wikipedia’s accuracy in representing notable scholars

From: The distorted mirror of Wikipedia: a quantitative analysis of Wikipedia coverage of academics

Wikipedia category

Precision

Recall

F-score

Total number of articles in category

Biologists

36%

33%

0.34

81631

Computer Scientists

31%

48%

0.37

13789

Physicists

22%

22%

0.22

4554

Psychologists and Psychiatrists

24%

38%

0.29

4777

  1. Precision is the ratio of researchers on Wikipedia with h-index above field average and recall is the percentage of Highly Cited researchers covered by Wikipedia. F-score is the harmonic mean of these two.
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