Seeking health information online: does Wikipedia matter?
OBJECTIVE To determine the significance of the English Wikipedia as a source of online health information. DESIGN The authors measured Wikipedia's ranking on general Internet search engines by entering keywords from MedlinePlus, NHS Direct Online, and the National Organization of Rare Diseases as queries into search engine optimization software. We assessed whether article quality influenced this ranking. The authors tested whether traffic to Wikipedia coincided with epidemiological trends and news [...]
Author(s): Laurent, Michaël R, Vickers, Tim J
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3059