What is the importance of knowledge management in scientific research ?
Knowledge management can help scientific research in the following manners (not exhaustive list):
performing rigorous literature review so that existing scientific research is not reinventing the wheel.
enable inspiration & discovery of new ideas for scientific research through searching capabilities or big data analytics capabilities embedded within a knowledge management system.
Knowledge management system can be source of input for plagiarism software to check for plagiarism.
Knowledge management system / repository can store & catalog various artifacts generated from scientific research.
Knowledge management system equipped with AI / big data analytics can be used to verify / validate citations applied in manuscripts more efficiently instead of depending on manual validation or the reviewers' knowledge / experience.
Knowledge management helps to preserve scientific knowledge inherent in research. This will keep hope for reproducibility and continuity of research for future development.
Knowledge management focused on the organization, and it can also be used by Teacher in the classroom ( with his students) In other words, the KM is applicable for any group of individuals, it is a process of 4C: Communication, Conversation, Collaboration and Creativity.