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 …

Numerous quantitative indicators are currently available for evaluating research productivity.
No single metric is suitable for comprehensive evaluation of the author-level impact. The …

ResearchGate and Academia. edu have been increasingly acknowledged as the most
popular academic social network sites (ASNS) for scholarly communication. Along with their …

Purpose The main purpose of this study is to explore and validate the question “whether
altmetric mentions can predict citations to scholarly articles”. The paper attempts to explore …

ResearchGate has emerged as a popular professional network for scientists and
researchers in a very short span. Similar to Google Scholar, the ResearchGate indexing …

The advent of academic social networking sites (ASNS) has offered an unprecedented
opportunity for scholars to obtain peer support online. However, little is known about the …

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 …

Background: The emergence of web 2.0 and development of social media have strongly
affected sharing, collaborating, connecting, and evaluating in academic setting. This study …

Scholarly articles are considered one of the primary medium for dissemination of inventions
and discoveries. Traditionally, usefulness and popularity of a scholarly article has been …

This study aims to examine how the follower–followee ratio determines user characteristics
on the academic social networking site ResearchGate (RG) and to examine institutional …