This paper reviews selected research papers dealing with the practices and attitudes of higher education students and professors in relation to their use of Wikipedia. The paper also reviews research papers related to Wikipedia editors, to their way of working and their opinions about the site. The aim of the paper is to gain a better understanding of the opinions and uses of Wikipedia in the academic community, and this was done by reviewing eighteen papers dealing with these topics. The results show that students and teachers start to use Wikipedia as support for writing academic papers, that is, for the preparation of teaching and research, more often from the year 2010 onwards. Both students and teachers use Wikipedia primarily to get an idea about a topic and then accompany this research with other sources of information. Students trust Wikipedia more then teachers and use it very much when writing academic papers. Some teachers prohibit the use of Wikipedia to their students even though they use it themselves. The most commonly cited reasons for using Wikipedia are good coverage of various topics, and accessibility of this encyclopedia. The most commonly cited reason for avoiding it, is its lack of credibility. Wikipedia editors mostly edit articles that deal with topics they are familiar with, but avoid using Wikipedia if they need to have accurate information. Authors of most of reviewed papers agree that there is no point in banning students from using Wikipedia and that the solution is to find a way to integrate Wikipedia into academic education.