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I started adding citations to my blog posts around 2012 using the Kcite plugin.\u2021<\/sup> Rogue Scholar<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

I show the results for the previous blog[1]<\/a><\/span> here.<\/p>\n

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Martin Fenner has just added some interesting new features[2]<\/a><\/span> which I thought would be useful to share with you here.<\/p>\n

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  1. If you go to the Rogue Scholar archive of the post<\/a> and scroll down to the References list, then click on the title<\/strong> of any of the references, you will get a list of all Rogue Scholar posts citing that reference: https:\/\/rogue-scholar.org\/search?q=doi:10.1038\/sdata.2016.18+references:10.1038\/sdata.2016.18+citations:10.1038\/sdata.2016.18<\/small><\/a><\/li>\n
  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.
    \n\"\"    https:\/\/rogue-scholar.org\/search?q=orcid:0000-0002-8635-8390&sort=newest<\/small><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    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!<\/p>\n

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    \u2021<\/sup> This is temporarily not functional due to a php update on the site. I hope to get it working again soon. Update<\/b>. Thanks to Martin Fenner, the Kcite plugin is working again at version 1.7.11 and upwards.[3]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    References<\/h2>\n
    1. H. Rzepa, \"More on rescuing articles from a now defunct early pioneering example of an Internet journal.\", 2025. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.59350\/rzepa.29523<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
    2. M. Fenner, \"Rogue Scholar links records via ORCID and DOI\", 2025. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53731\/yjq4w-5yr32<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n
    3. M. Fenner, \"Adding references to Wordpress posts: updated kcite plugin\", 2025. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.53731\/326tr-95k32<\/a>\n\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I started adding citations to my blog posts around 2012 using the Kcite plugin.\u2021 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 here. 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