Archiving with The Rogue Scholar

Since 2009, I have published over 125 articles on this blog, creating a space where my work intersects with the rigor of academic research and the applied challenges of industry. This platform has grown beyond a personal archive. It has become a resource for researchers, industry practitioners, and students alike. It currently attracts more than 18k monthly visitor from across the globe. My articles have been frequently cited in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, technical standards, patents, and academic theses.

For example, A Sidecar for Your Service Mesh has garnered attention from prestigious sources, including the IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering and the NIST Special Publication. The article has been cited more than 11 times by peer-reviewed academic publications and patents, demonstrating its importance across academic research, government standards, and industry implementations.

Preserving Knowledge, Amplifying Impact

However, ensuring their accessibility and scholarly recognition in a sustainable way has always been a challenge. This is why I am thrilled to announce that my blog is now archived and indexed with The Rogue Scholar, a platform dedicated to elevating the visibility and impact of scholarly blogs.

The Rogue Scholar ensures that blogs like mine are preserved, discoverable, and easily citable. Front Matter, the organisation behind The Rogue Scholar, founded by Martin Fenner. Martin has been a long term champion of making research more transparent and accessible.

The Rogue Scholar offers full-text search capabilities. Articles archived in the platform are assigned Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and enriched with metadata, turning each blog post into a scholarly artifact. The Rogue Scholar is free for blog authors, provided their content is shared under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license and meets scholarly or science blog requirements.

Call to action

If you are a researcher or science communicator with a blog, I suggest you to consider submitting your content to The Rogue Scholar. Your blog is more than a collection of posts; it is a reflection of your intellectual journey, and it deserves the recognition and discoverability that The Rogue Scholar provides.