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SciTopics launched by Elsevier
Last fall, Elsevier launched SciTopics. It is a web site devoted to providing research summaries of current topics by experts, allowing for public interaction through comments. Anyone can become a member and post comments, or request to author a page.
In many ways, it resembles iMechanica. Authors pen SciTopic pages in their area of expertise. SciTopics leverages Scirus , which is Elsevier's free, science-specific search engine.
There are more than a few SciTopics pages that iMechanica users will find of interest. For example, take a look at the SciTopics page on hydrophobic interactions or the one on biotribology at the microscale and nanoscale .
I am one of the editors, so if you are interested in penning a SciTopics page, just send me an email and I will be glad to send you a formal invitation.
- John E. Dolbow's blog
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John,
Thanks for the heads-up. SciTopics reminds me the Google Knol (see an example here), which provides similiar functions. I don't have experience with either of them, but it seems SciTopics could be more informative if it leverages Scirus and Scopus better. Google knol should be able to aggregate with Google Scholar for the similiar purpose. All in all, however, community-wide participation is the key to the success of SciTopics, or Knol, or both.