Is There a Weekly Pattern for Health Searches on Wikipedia and Is the Pattern Unique to Health Topics?
Elia GabarronAnnie Y S LauRolf WynnPublished in: Journal of medical Internet research (2015)
Our study supports prior studies finding an increase in health information searching at the beginning of the workweek. However, we also found a similar pattern for 2 randomly chosen nonhealth-related terms, which may suggest that the search pattern is not unique to health-related searches. The results are potentially relevant beyond the field of health and our preliminary findings need to be further explored in future studies involving a broader range of nonhealth-related searches.