Meet your academic neighbours in CiteULike

December 20th, 2006 by shane

One of the good (potentially great) things about on-line reference sites  is that it can put you in touch with those academics who share interests with you. This particulary true with CiteULike, which by design encourages co-operation, for example, it allows you to see who else shares a reference in your library.

The link belows is a tool which works out which users share the most articles in your CiteULike collection, and you can then cherry pick interesting articles from their collections.

I first found this on the shadow blog, who turned out to one of my neighbours!

The link is here:

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About the author: Shane is a post doctoral researcher in Psychology. When not doing things which end in athlon, and running around being busy, he wonders whether if he literally means running when he says he is running around, or if it is just a metaphor.


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One Response to “Meet your academic neighbours in CiteULike”

  1. darioNo Gravatar Says:

    It should be mentioned that Connotea has a built-in feature to identify related users:

    What are related users?
    Related users are those who have been saving similar things to you. You may find it interesting to browse their collections for relevant material.

    Source: http://www.connotea.org/faq

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