Mapping the backbone of the Humanities through the eyes of Wikipedia Torres Salinas, Daniel Romero Frías, Esteban Arroyo Machado, Wenceslao Wikipedia scientific journals network analysis co-citation analysis Scopus Digital Humanities The present study aims to establish a valid method by which to apply the theory of co-citations to Wikipedia article references and, subsequently, to map these relationships between scientific papers. This theory, originally applied to scientific literature, will be transferred to the digital environment of collective knowledge generation. To this end, a dataset containing Wikipedia references collected from Altmetric and Scopus’ Journal Metrics journals has been used. The articles have been categorized according to the disciplines and specialties established in the All Science Journal Classification (ASJC). They have also been grouped by journal of publication. A set of articles in the Humanities, comprising 25 555 Wikipedia articles with 41 655 references to 32 245 resources, has been selected. Finally, a descriptive statistical study has been conducted and co-citations have been mapped using networks and indicators of degree and betweenness centrality 2019-07-30T11:17:37Z 2019-07-30T11:17:37Z 2019-07-22 info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint http://hdl.handle.net/10481/56576 10.1016/j.joi.2019.07.002 10.5281/zenodo.3355224 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España Journal of Informetrics