An altmetric analysis of ResearchGate profiles of physics researchers

Shrivastava, Rishabh; Mahajan, Preeti

doi:10.1108/pmm-07-2016-0033

Cited by 22 publications

(25 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Meier and Tunger (2018) found that only 19% of ResearchGate users in physics, biology, medicine, and neuroscience had asked a question, and 49% had provided an answer. Shrivastava and Mahajan (2017) also found that only 12% of the physics researchers in an Indian university asked or answered a question. The evidence from these studies indicates that interactive functions are not well-used by science researchers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A Case Study of a Canadian Research University

Zhang

2020

ISTL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Researchers are increasingly using academic profile websites to organize and showcase their research outputs. Using the faculty at the science departments of the University of Saskatchewan, Canada as the study object, this research explores how science researchers used four academic profile websites: ResearchGate, Google Scholar Citations, Academia.edu, and ORCID. It was found that 78% of the researchers had established at least one academic profile, with ResearchGate being the most popular platform, Google Scholar Citations the second, followed at some distance by ORCID and Academia.edu. A high percentage of ORCID users did not list any of their publications, meaning their presence on ORCID was merely symbolic. We also found that the social interaction functions provided by ResearchGate were not well adopted. Findings from this study call for the improvement of the workflow of adding publications to ORCID profile.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A Case Study of a Canadian Research University

Zhang

2020

ISTL

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Hence, several studies have questioned which kind of activity is responsible for having a high RG score. In this regard, Shrivastava and Mahajan (2017) found that adding publications was the major activity that increases the RG score, whereas stated that the RG score is higher for highly cited authors and researchers who had published in reputed journals. However, Copiello and Bonifaci (2018) found that the main factor that influences the RG score is users' engagement instead of users' publications.…”

Section: Impact Assessment (Theme Ii)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…(3) shift in libraries from buying individual journals to subscribing publishers' electronic databases; and (4) popularization of using academic social networking sites (ASNs) ( Hailu, Mammo, & Ketema, 2016;Nentwich & König, 2014;Shrivastava & Mahajan, 2017). With these changes, scholars and their institutions are expected to adjust themselves.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Use of Academic Social Networking Sites in Scholarly Communication: Scoping Review

Hailu

2021

Data and Information Management

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This research provides a systematic analysis of 115 previous literatures on the use of academic social networking sites (ASNs) in scholarly communication. Previous research on the subject has mainly taken a disciplinary and user perspective. This research conceptualizes the use of ASNs in scholarly communication in the space between social interactions and the technologies themselves. Keyword analysis and scoping review approaches have been used to analyze the comprehensive literature in the field. The study found a geographic variation in what motivates academics to use ASNs. Scholar discovery and sharing are the primary driving factors identified in the literature. Four main themes within the research literature are proposed: motivation and uses, impact assessment, features and services, and scholarly big data. The study found that there has been an increase in scholarly big data research in recent years. The paper also discusses the key findings and concepts stated in each theme. This gives academics a better understanding of what ASNs can do and their weaknesses, and identifies gaps in the literature that are worth addressing in future investigations. We suggest that future studies may also extend the existing theoretical framework and epistemological approaches to better predict and clarify the socio-technical dimensions of ASNs use in scholarly communication. In addition, this study has implications for academic and research institutions, libraries and information literacy programs, and future studies on the topic.

show abstract

“…Shrivastava and Mahajan (2017) provide a case study of a single department (the Department of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Delhi). Of the departments' 173 members, 49 of members of the Department with ResearchGate profiles had no publication information associated with their profiles, while 94 had not uploaded any full-text documents (Shrivastava and Mahajan, 2017). It is not clear to what extent this reflects reluctance of the users to upload their publications, or simply the academic profile of the department (less senior members being less likely to have accrued a substantial publication record, for example).…”

Section: Relationship Of the Platforms To Open Access Publishingmentioning

confidence: 99%

From Social Networks to Publishing Platforms: A Review of the History and Scholarship of Academic Social Network Sites

Jordan

2019

Front. Digit. Humanit.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Social network sites enable people to easily connect to and communicate with others. Following the success of generic platforms such as Facebook, a variety of online services launched during the mid 2000s in order to bring the benefits of online social networking to an academic audience. However, it is not clear whether these academic social network sites (ASNS) are primarily aligned with social networking or alternative publishing, and functionalities continue to change. Now 10 years since the launch of the three main platforms which currently lead the market (Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and Mendeley), it is timely to review how and why ASNS are used. This paper discusses the history and definition of ASNS, before providing a comprehensive review of the empirical research related to ASNS to-date. Five main themes within the research literature are identified, including: the relationship of the platforms to Open Access publishing; metrics; interactions with others through the platforms; platform demographics and social structure; and user perspectives. Discussing the themes in the research both provides academics with a greater understanding of what ASNS can do and their limitations, and identifies gaps in the literature which would be valuable to explore in future research.

show abstract

An altmetric analysis of ResearchGate profiles of physics researchers

Cited by 22 publications

References 19 publications

Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A Case Study of a Canadian Research University

Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A Case Study of a Canadian Research University

The Use of Academic Social Networking Sites in Scholarly Communication: Scoping Review

From Social Networks to Publishing Platforms: A Review of the History and Scholarship of Academic Social Network Sites

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About