Social Network Sites for Scientists: A Quantitative Survey

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Chandos Publishing, 26 jul 2016 - 198 páginas

Social Network Sites for Scientists: A Quantitative Survey explores the newest social network sites (for example, ResearchGate and Academia.edu) and web bibliographic platforms (Mendeley, Zotero) that have recently emerged for the scholarly community to use in the interchange of information and documents.

Chapters describe their main characteristics, what their advantages and limitations are, and the researchers that populate these websites. The surveys included in the book have been conducted following a quantitative approach, and measure the strength of the services provided by the sites in terms of use and activity. In addition, they also discuss the implications of new products in the future of scientific communication and their impact on research activities and evaluation.

  • Analyzes social network sites form scientists using a quantitative approach
  • Introduces the quantitative study of the main characteristic and functionalities of each platform, and the activity that they develop
  • Offers a scientific review of the most relevant and current studies on this issue, discussing their results and commenting on their implications for scientific communication and research evaluation
 

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Índice

1 Introduction
1
2 The First Attempts
19
3 Social Bookmarking Sites
37
4 Reference Management Tools
65
5 Document Sharing Services
101
6 Comparison
149
7 Final Remarks
167
Index
177
Back Cover
183
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Academia.edu academic social networking academic social sites Almetrics annual growth Available average bibliographic database bibliographic references bibliometric BibSonomy BibTex Binned distribution BiomedExperts blog CAGR cent of users citations CiteULike Computer Connotea create DBLP describe distribution of profiles document sharing sites downloads Elsevier environment Evolution extract Figure folksonomy forums full-text copy full-text documents impact indicators Information Science interaction Jeng Journal Kousha log-log plot Mendeley metrics million Nature Network Nature Publishing Group Number of groups Number of profiles number of users open access organizations Ortega papers participation percentage of users possible presents produce Reference management software reference management tool research area research interests ResearchGate RG Score sample scholarly community scholars scientific self-archiving shows social bookmarking sites social networking services social networking sites Social Sciences spaces Table tags Thelwall thematic tion UniPHY United Kingdom University uploaded views WayBack Machine Zotero

Sobre el autor (2016)

José Luis Ortega is a web researcher in the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He achieved a fellowship to the Cybermetrics Lab of the CSIC, where he finished his doctoral studies. In 2005, he was hired by the Virtual Knowledge Studio of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and Arts, and in 2008 he received a full position in the Vice-presidency for Scientific and Technological Research at the CSIC, working in research evaluation. He collaborates with the Cybermetrics Lab in research areas such as Webometrics, Web usage mining, Visualization of Information, Social network analysis and Web bibliometrics.

Información bibliográfica

TítuloSocial Network Sites for Scientists: A Quantitative Survey
AutorJose Luis Ortega
EditorChandos Publishing, 2016
ISBN008100589X, 9780081005897
N.º de páginas198 páginas
  
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