Scholars are increasingly using the microblogging service Twitter as a communication platform. Since citing is a central practice of scholarly communication, we investigated whether and how scholars cite on Twitter. We conducted interviews and harvested 46,515 tweets from a sample of 28 scholars and found that they do cite on Twitter, though often indirectly. Twitter citations are part of a fas...

nack, M.D., with an introduction by Sir Lauder Brunton. London: P. S. King and Son, 1910. Pp. xvi. + 434. This hook presents a resume of the progress made in the medical examination of school children in England. It contains outlines by specialists of high standing, describing the best methods for conducting the examinations, These are followed by a rather brief account of what has been done an...

Why authors cite particular documents has been the subject of both speculation and empirical investigation for decades.This article provides a short history of attempts to understand citation motivations and reports a replication of earlier surveys measuring reasons for citations. Comparisons are made among various types of scholars. The present study identified six highly cited articles in the...

T interest in social networks among marketing scholars and practitioners has sharply increased in the last decade. One social network of which network scholars increasingly recognize the unique value is the academic collaboration (coauthor) network. We offer a comprehensive database of the collaboration network among marketing scholars over the last 40 years (available at http://mktsci.pubs.inf...

Human is the only species on earth that has mastered the technologies in writing and printing to capture ephemeral thoughts and scientific discoveries. The capabilities to pass along knowledge, not only geographically but also generationally, have formed the bedrock of our civilizations. We are in the midst of a silent revolution driven by the technological advancements: no longer are computers...

Scholars participate in online social networks for professional purposes. In such networks, learning takes the form of participation and identity formation through engagement in and contribution to networked practices. While current literature describes the possible benefits of online participation, empirical research on scholars’ use of online social networks in the educational technology lite...

Collaboration patterns of scholars have been the subject of many studies. This paper investigates the collaboration patterns of the Turkish scholars’ publications within the citation indexes. Turkey’s contribution to the world’s scientifi c literature has increased signifi cantly during the recent years. It is important to understand the collaboration types in scholarly communication in order t...

In this paper we present Talia, a novel implementation of a semantic digital web library system, which is part of the Discovery project. Talia deploys Semantic Web technologies and uses computational ontologies for the organisation of knowledge, which can help the de nition of a state-of-the-art research and publishing environment for philosophy. Talia will provide an innovative and exible syst...