Wikis

The production and usage of Wiki Websites is quite easy. Attention please, this post is still under construction. More information will follow soon.
In the meantime the following video, a commoncraft product, describes how it works.

Twitter

Twitter provides a service for friends, family and co-workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of FAQs to one simple question: What are you doing?

The following video, a commoncraft product, describes how it works.



View Twitter Blog for more information.

Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge

The Eigenfactor site is a good source for ranking and mapping science journals. It ranks journals as much as Google ranks websites. It is completely free and completely searchable.

CitationRank

"Citations are the currency of research", argues Erik Duval in his post on citations in the field of Technology Enhanced Learning.

In this respect he raises the following questions:

• which of your papers has been cited most often?
• who has cited you most often?
• which papers cited a particular publication of yours?
• whether more and more or less and less people are citing you over the years?
• whose citing behavior is close to yours?
• which conference or journal contains most citations of your papers?
• which conference or journal contains your cites most often?

Moreover he discusses some Searching Tools for scientists:

• PubMed


• arXiv


• Web of Science


• DBLP


• Google Scholar


• Bibisonomy


• Citeseer

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a service provided by Google.

It offers a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources. One can identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Concerning the ranking of articles Google Scholar aims to sort articles the way researchers do.

Features for ranking articles:

• weighing full text of each article
• author
• publication of appearance of article
• number of citations
  

The most relevant results will appear on the first page.

More on Google Scholar.

I consider Google Scholar as a highly effective searching tool for scientists. But what about scientists who are still prioritizing on non-digital forms of publication? Which "page" will they appear on? Do they have to turn into what I'd call "digital natives" rather than "digital immigrants" in order to keep or gain reputation in the scholarly world?