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Increasing the Impact of Research Using Web 2.0

AcaWiki is like a "Wikipedia for academic research" designed to increase the impact of scholars, students, and bloggers by enabling them to share summaries and discuss academic papers online. AcaWiki turns research hidden in academic journals into something more dynamic and accessible. All content on the site is licensed under the Commons Attribution license. To learn more about what AcaWiki can do for scholars, students, teachers and the public read the FAQ, or look at a sample summary.

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Post or Browse Summaries of Research

AcaWiki enables you to easily post summaries and literature reviews of peer-reviewed research. Please read our posting guidelines before proceeding. If you want to find summaries or literature reviews of peer-reviewed research, you can either browse summaries or search.

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News: AcaWiki mentioned in InsideHigherEd

AcaWiki was mentioned in Inside Higher Ed this week, in Whither the Wikis?

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Featured Summary: PageRank for Twitter

Paper Title: Nepotistic relationships in Twitter and their impact on rank prestige algorithms

Compared 5 "prestige algorithms": PageRank, HITS, NodeRanking, TunkRank, TwitterRank on a large dataset: 28 million English tweets from 5 million users. TunkRank (description) (implementation) (API) (slides about), which discounts reciprocal follows, is best. Read more...