Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

With the rapid growth of digital publishing, harvesting, managing, and analyzing scholarly
information have become increasingly challenging. The term Big Scholarly Data is coined …

Apesar de terem nascido com caráter pessoal, as Redes Sociais Virtuais-RSV reunem mais
do que usuários, agrupam pessoas em grupos distintos, por afinidades que apresentam …

R esearch G ate is a social network site for academics to create their own profiles, list their
publications, and interact with each other. Like Academia. edu, it provides a new way for …

Academic social-networking sites (ASNS) such as Academia. edu and ResearchGate are
becoming very popular among academics. These sites allow uploading academic articles …

Altmetrics is an emergent research area whereby social media is applied as a source of
metrics to assess scholarly impact. In the last few years, the interest in altmetrics has grown …

Purpose Academic social network site (ASNS) is a new form of academic service in the
social media age, and the study of ASNS user behavior is of great significance to academic …

Little detailed information is known about who reads research articles and the contexts in
which research articles are read. Using data about people who register in M endeley as …

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 …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to detect and describe disciplinary differences in the
users and use of several social networking sites by scientists. Design/methodology …