The spin-offs from adding citations to blog posts.

I started adding citations to my blog posts around 2012 using the Kcite plugin.^‡Rogue Scholar is a service that monitors registered blog sources and adds all sorts of value to the original post, including identifying such citations and creating a list of them.

I show the results for the previous blog[1] here.

Martin Fenner has just added some interesting new features[2] which I thought would be useful to share with you here.

1. If you go to the Rogue Scholar archive of the post and scroll down to the References list, then click on the title of any of the references, you will get a list of all Rogue Scholar posts citing that reference:
2. If you click on the author name in any of the entries from the previous search, you get a list of all the posts published by that person.
   

I think this idea of adding citations to a blog post can result in a considerably enhanced discovery process – if only you could do this with journals themselves!

^‡ This is temporarily not functional due to a php update on the site. I hope to get it working again soon. Update. Thanks to Martin Fenner, the Kcite plugin is working again at version 1.7.11 and upwards.

References

1. H. Rzepa, “More on rescuing articles from a now defunct early pioneering example of an Internet journal.”, 2025.
2. M. Fenner, “Rogue Scholar links records via ORCID and DOI”, 2025.