User profiles for Omer Benjakob

Omer Benjakob

Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires (CRI), Université de Paris
Verified email at cri-paris.org
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Citation needed? Wikipedia bibliometrics during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

O Benjakob, R Aviram, JA Sobel - GigaScience, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background With the COVID-19 pandemic’s outbreak, millions flocked to Wikipedia for
updated information. Amid growing concerns regarding an “infodemic,” ensuring the quality of …

A Clockwork Wikipedia: from a broad perspective to a case study

O Benjakob, R Aviram - Journal of biological rhythms, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
While research has shown that scientists use Wikipedia and that scientific content on
Wikipedia ramifies back into scientific literature, many questions remain on how the two sides …

[HTML][HTML] Wikipedia as a tool for contemporary history of science: A case study on CRISPR

O Benjakob, O Guley, JM Sevin, L Blondel… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Rapid developments and methodological divides hinder the study of how scientific knowledge
accumulates, consolidates and transfers to the public sphere. Our work proposes using …

[PDF][PDF] From anarchy to wikiality, glaring bias to good cop: Press coverage of Wikipedia's first two decades

O Benjakob, S Harrison - Wikipedia@ 20, 2020 - assets.pubpub.org
Media coverage of Wikipedia has radically shifted over the past two decades: once cast as
an intellectual frivolity, it is now lauded as the “last bastion of shared reality” online. To …

[PDF][PDF] Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic

O Benjakob, R Aviram, J Sobel - BioRxiv, 2021 - scholar.archive.org
Wikipedia has over 130,000 different articles relating to health and medicine (1). The website
as a whole, and specifically its medical and health articles, like those about disease or …

High Impact: Wikipedia sources and edit history document two decades of the climate change field

O Benjakob, L Jouveshomme, M Collet, A Augustoni… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Since being founded in 2001, Wikipedia has grown into a trusted source of knowledge online,
feeding Google search results and serving as training data for ChatGPT. Understanding …

What Happened to Urban Heat Island Mitigation? A Diachronic Analysis of Wikipedia Articles Reveals Knowledge Circulation Gaps

R Aviram, O Benjakob, O Aleksandrowicz - A Diachronic Analysis of … - papers.ssrn.com
The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon has become a leading cause for concern, yet
effective mitigation action remains limited. A knowledge circulation failure has long been …

Meta-Research: Citation needed? Wikipedia and the COVID-19 pandemic (preprint)

O Benjakob, R Aviram, JA Sobel - 2021 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
With the COVID-19 pandemic's outbreak at the beginning of 2020, millions across the world
flocked to Wikipedia to read about the virus. Our study offers an in-depth analysis of the …

[PDF][PDF] Department of Philosophy

O Benjakob - 2014 - academia.edu
In my paper I will attempt to present a ‘pragmatic’reading of computermediated communication
by offering the concept of the ‘text act’and analyzing its manifestation in Facebook …

[PDF][PDF] The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas

O Benjakob, M Elhanati - 2016 - academia.edu
The following is an attempt to present and analyze the myth of the internet’s self-proclaimed
encyclopedia, Wikipedia, as told through the text and hypertext of the Wikipedia article for …