Jim Giles (reporter)

Jim Giles is reporter in the San Francisco bureau of "New Scientist". He writes about science, politics and the environment.

Until April 2007, Giles wrote for the journal "Nature". In December 2005, he and colleagues published a story that compared the accuracy of science articles in "Wikipedia" to those in "Encyclopaedia Britannica". Peer reviewers recruited by Nature identified an average of four inaccuracies in the Wikipedia articles they examined and an average of around three in articles on the same topics in Britannica.Cite journal
author = Jim Giles
title = Internet encyclopedias go head to head
journal = Nature
volume = 438
pages = 900–901
month = December
year = 2005
url = http://npg.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html] Britannica subsequently criticized the story [http://corporate.britannica.com/britannica_nature_response.pdf] , prompting Nature to clarify the methodology used [http://www.nature.com/nature/britannica/index.html] to compile the results.

Giles studied physics at the University of Bristol. He received a master's degree in computational neuroscience from the University of Oxford. Giles initially developed exihibitions at the Science Museum in London, joining Nature in 2001 as a news and features editor and becoming a reporter for the journal in 2003.

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