Published research that has cited Wrong Planet

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It's interesting to see published academic research on autism that refers to Wrong Planet, and sometimes uses information from the site. It might be worthwhile to compile a list of such works. I recently came across this, for example:

Giles, David C. 2013. ‘DSM-V is taking away our identity’: The reaction of the online community to the proposed changes in the diagnosis of Asperger’s disorder.

You may be quoted in it -- it quotes quite a few threads. It's available here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Da ... 000000.pdf

"In total, 19 threads were analysed, several of which stretched to well over 100 posts. Twelve of these were found on the forum Wrong Planet (http://www.wrongplanet.net).... Each post in these threads was coded according to its author’s position on the DSM-5 proposals, and the data were reduced by grouping together posts that advanced similar rhetorical arguments. Altogether, six discrete categories of posts were identified, and these are described in the following section along with illustrative quotation. The first category, acceptance, consists of posts that broadly supported the DSM-5 proposals. The following four categories – fear, rejection, defiance and suspicion – contained posts arguing against the proposals. The final category, reassurance, consists of posts that supported the proposals but whose function is largely to pacify fellow community members who feared negative outcomes...."

Thanks. I think I recognise one of mine :O

You should receive at least a portion of the royalties

Hmm, I've searched for a few of the WP snippets quoted in the paper, and they aren't turning up here.

I thought they would be pretty hard to find, other than scrolling through all your past posts for a match, given that the WP search function is unhelpful.

It looks like going directly to Google works. Here is the author's WP thread #8, quoted on his p. 8:

https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... 3&start=45

The WP poster is "anbuend". Find it this way:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22even ... e&ie=UTF-8

Thanks. Here is another of those threads:

https://wrongplanet.net/forums/viewtopi ... &p=6545804

If memory serves me well, I think there were quite a few under differing titles.

OK, if you search Google Scholar for "wrongplant.net" you can find 189 academic papers* that refer to WP in some way, either as an information source, or just in passing as an example of an online community:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=e ... sdt=1%2C22

We appear to have been used quite a bit.

*Google Scholar indexes academic works in an automated manner, of course, so a few of the citations and the works included may be spurious.

Here's another one:

Chloe J. Jordan (2010) Evolution of Autism Support and Understanding Via the World Wide Web. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: June 2010, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 220-227.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1352/1934-9556-48.3.220

"WrongPlanet is one such public online forum for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. WrongPlanet has been open since 2004 and claims over 25,000 members who have made over 2 million posts (Plank, 2004), indicating a very active community. WrongPlanet users are from around the world, living primarily in the United States, Europe, and Australia. Most WrongPlanet users are diagnosed with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism, though some have pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) or are self-diagnosed, and neurotypical individuals who are friends or family members of people with autism often participate in discussion. Discussion boards on WrongPlanet are numerous, including a general discussion, a “Getting to Know Each Other” section, love and dating topics, and sophisticated debates about politics, philosophy, and religion.

"The social support that the WrongPlanet community offers is a frequent subject of discussion. Many users feel that conversing online is a way to socialize without experiencing the demands associated with real-life conversations. One person with autism spectrum disorder wrote, “I find that my conversational skills and general ability to cope with socializing do far better while communicating over the Internet.” Contrary to the awkwardness that is sometimes perceived in a face-to-face interaction with a person with autism (Frith, 1991), the conversations found on WrongPlanet and other forums reveal eloquent, empathetic individuals. Conversing online does not require interpretation of a conversational partner's emotions from social cues, and conversations do not require an immediate reply. These benefits are illustrated in one WrongPlanet user, who wrote, “I am better online because I can think of things to say [first].”"