Knowledge Paths

The process of knowledge generation involves finding links or connections between already existing pieces of knowledge. There are some applications out there, that can help with that:

• PaperCube
• PathWay, see also CNET: New Mac Review: Keep Wikipedia research focused with Pathway

Also helpful would be a Google Scholar API, but it does not exist yet:

• google-ajax-apis: Issue 109: Please add Google Scholar to the API, including # of citations and BibTex reference.
• Google Scholar API and PaperCube

But here is a python receipe, which allows to retrieve results from Google Scholar as dictionary

• ActiveState Code: Recipe 523047: Search Google scholar