Chapter 3 – Knowledge Management

Citation tracking is a process that helps researchers focus better by knowing the direction that their research field is moving toward. This in turn is how a university is able to make decisions relating to scholarship and research. The most successful institutions are those that have built up enough of a name to essentially dictate what direction research should go. In an ideal knowledge management environment, all academic environments would readily find, cite, and access all existing data and other digital objects (such as software). That way, the impact of researchers and their products could conceivably be much more easily universally accounted for. Analysis of the impact of scholars and their works is constrained by any unreliable practices in cross-referencing, citation discovering, and citation indexing and analysis. Technological advances are happening in knowledge management, and the use of its tools and practices can help in all the mentioned areas, resulting in more meaningful readings.