Social networking services have been adapted by the academia and have been aptly termed academic social networking services (ASNS). ASNS, may foster multi-disciplinary collaborations by providing a platform for researchers from diverse backgrounds to find one another and cooperate on issues of common interests.ASNs have for many become the primary way to provide access to one’s research output, outpacing all other types of online locations such as personal websites and repositories.

1. Academic
Networking
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Mahmoud Danaee
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2. Outline
Introduction
The Internet and Social Networks
History of Social Networks
What is 'Networking‘?
Types of networks
Academic social networking services (ASNS)
Popular Academic Networking Services
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3. The Internet and Social Networks
• Nowadays, Social network sites have become an
essential way to communicate and stay connected
with people in the virtual sphere
• Social media has enabled people to engage online
in a different ways and assume multiple
responsibilities and roles.
• It has been gathered that there are more than 200
popular SNSs across the universe; the most
popular among them is Facebook with 1.86 billion
active users on average monthly as at February
2017 (Zephoria, 2017).
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4. History of Social Networks
• The second wave of
Social Networks
Sites (SNSs) started
when Ryze.com was
launched in 2001 to
help people leverage
their business
networks.
• The Myspace begun
in 2003 and said
welcome to bands of
teenagers.
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5. • Subsequently, Facebook was
designed for college networks
and the student’s connection.
Facebook was launched in
early 2004 as Harvard-only
SNSs (Cassidy, 2006),
• After this, comes the Twitter
in 2006 as social networking
and microblogging site
enabling members to send and
receive 140 character
messages called tweets
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Social network sites (SNS)
have not only become a
fundamental part of the
digital age, but also
increasingly offer novel
communicative and
networking possibilities
for academia (Nentwich
&König, 2014).

8. What is 'Networking‘?
• Is a process that fosters the
exchange of information and
ideas among individuals or
groups that share a common
interest.
• Is using your creative talents
to help others achieve their
goals as you cultivate a
network of people
strategically positioned to
support you in your goals…
expecting nothing in return!
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9. Types of networks (Uzzi and Dunlap 2005)
• 1. Personal:
This is the network of individuals whom we trust and share similar
interests with (friends, family and acquaintances). These people are
typically outside of the workplace and provide help and advice when
dealing with professional dilemmas.
• 2. Operational:
This is the network of individuals we need to do get our jobs done
efficiently. These people are typically colleagues who depend on us
• 3. Strategic:
This network is about tomorrow. It helps us define what the
future looks like, and drives us to succeed in that future.
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10. Types of social networks
• Social Connections (Facebook, Twitter, Google +, MySpace)
• Multimedia Sharing (YouTube, Flickr)
• Professional (LinkedIn, Classroom 2.0)
• Informational (Super Green Me,Do-It-Yourself Community)
• Educational (The Student Room,The Math Forum, ePALS School Blog)
• Hobbies (Oh My Bloom,My Place at Scrapbook.com)
• Academic (Academia.edu, Collaborative Research, ResearchGate, Mendely,…..)
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11. Academic social networking services (ASNS)
• SNS have been adapted by the academia and have been aptly termed
academic social networking services (ASNS).
• ASNS, may foster multi-disciplinary collaborations by providing a
platform for researchers from diverse backgrounds to find one another and
cooperate on issues of common interests.(Jung Sun Oh 2011)
• ASNs have for many become the primary way to provide access to one’s
research output, outpacing all other types of online locations such as
personal websites and repositories. (Mikael Laakso, 2017)
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12. • Velestianos & Kimmons (2013) argue that research is
becoming “networked” and “participatory”.
• ASNSs can provide measures of academic impact. While
scholarly publishing has traditionally been evaluated in terms
of citation counts and the quality of the journal in which a
paper was published (Goodyear et al., 2009)
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13. ASNS Applications & Services
The literature discusses different ways
an can support scholarly work.
• Collaboration
• Online persona management
• Research dissemination
• Documents management
• Impact measurement.
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14. • In a recent survey (Association of Research Managers and
Administrators, https://arma.ac.uk/), it was revealed that:
• 80% of researchers said that creating multidisciplinary
relationships was important to their roles
• 71% of them thought this was difficult.
• 59% thought that creating relationships with researchers in
other geographies was important
• 76% of them found this challenging
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15. • Researchers in almost all scientific disciplines
rely heavily on the collaboration of their
colleagues.
• Undeniably, research collaborations are
primary sources of innovative opportunities
aside from the fact that these types of
partnership contributes to an enhanced
framework between academia and the industry
(e.g., McKelvey, Zaring, & Ljungberg, 2015).
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16. Muhammad Yousuf Ali 2018
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17. As indicated in the literature review, two of the
major benefits which are touted for joining an
ASNS are:
• (1) Creating a profile which highlights one’s own
research
• (2) Building meaningful, collaborative research
partnerships
• Increasing citations (upload one’s research
outputs to an ASNS)
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18. Popular Academic Networking Services
• Academia.edu
• Mendeley
• ResearchGate
• LinkedIn
• ORCID
• ResearcherID
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20. Introduce your Skills
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21. Job
From the Jobs page, you can
set career interests for
location, experience,
industry, and company size.
Job recommendations will be
based on information listed
on your profile, but will also
factor in these interests.
If you'd like to do a more
extensive or customized
search for jobs, you can use
the filters we provide when
searching for a job
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22. How to Improve Our Network ?
1. Curate Your Groups
2. Update Your Current
Responsibilities
3. Filter Through Your Skills and
Endorsements
4. Customize Your LinkedIn URL
5. Ask for a Recommendation
6. Update Your Photo
7. Follow the Right People
8. Rewrite Your Headline
9. Connect With Your Team
Members
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23. 8 ways to increase your ranking on LinkedIn
• 1. Schedule posts
• 2. Re-connect with old connections
• 3. Welcome new connections
• 4. Follow up from events
• 5. Interact with relevant posts
• 6. Talk/connect to those who view your profile
• 7. Update your profile
• 8. Publish articles
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25. https://www.researchgate.net
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26. • Skills describe the expertise,
methods, and techniques you
use in your research and help
identify specialists in specific
fields.
• Skills are used for
recommendation of content
relevant to your work, so it’s
important to keep your skills up to
date.
• You can also endorse
researchers in your network to
recommend them for their skills
and expertise
What are skills?
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27. Make your work visible faster and get early
feedback
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32. RG Score
• The RG Score is a metric that
measures scientific reputation
based on how all of your work
is received by your peers.
• The algorithm looks at how
your peers receive and
evaluate your contributions
and who these peers are. This
means that the higher the
scores of those who interact
with your research,
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33. Questions
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34. https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Creating+and+editing+
projects
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35. Google Scholar Citations
• Google Scholar Citations provide a
simple way for authors to keep track
of citations to their articles.
• You can check who is citing your
publications, graph citations over
time, and compute several citation
metrics.
• You can also make your profile
public, so that it may appear in Google
Scholar results when people search for
your name,
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39. Edit your profile
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40. Academia.edu
• Academia.edu is a for-
profit American social
networking website for
academics.
• The platform can be
used to share papers,
monitor their impact,
and follow the research
in a particular field.
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43. ORCID
• ORCID was first organized as the "Open Researcher Contributor
Identification Initiative".
• A prototype was developed on software adapted from that used by
Thomson Reuters for its ResearcherID system.
• The registry is now an independent nonprofit organization, ORCID, Inc
• The aim of ORCID is to aid "the transition from science to e-Science.
• ORCID is a subset of the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)
• An ORCID identifier (ORCID iD) is a unique, personal, persistent
identifier for researchers that distinguishes them from every other
researcher and enables
them to link their publications to their unique record, ensuring their work is
recognized.
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44. ORCID
https://orcid.org/my-orcid
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45. Get
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47. Scopus - Elsevier
Import your Identifier, profile and publications. The wizard helps you find the correct
Scopus profile and to confirm your publications. You can then import the identifier and
list of publications into ORCID. Any changes you make will be submitted to the
Feedback team to update your Scopus profile.
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48. ResearcherID ->
• ResearcherID is an identifying system for
scientific authors. The system was introduced
in January 2008 by Thomson Reuters.
• Each member is assigned a unique identifier to
enable researchers to manage their publication
lists, track their times cited counts and h-index,
identify potential collaborators and avoid
author misidentification.
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51. Mendely
• Mendeley is a free reference manager and an academic social
network.
• Manage your research,
• showcase your work,
• onnect and collaborate with over six million researchers
worldwide.
• Mendeley requires the user to store all basic citation data on its
servers—storing copies of documents is at the user's discretion
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53. • Mendeley Desktop, based on Qt, runs on Windows, Mac (macOS Sierra and High
Sierra not officially supported[2]) and Linux.
• Automatic extraction of metadata from PDF papers.
• Back-up and synchronization across multiple computers and with a private online
account.
• PDF viewer with sticky notes, text highlighting and full-screen reading.
• Full-text search across papers.
• Smart filtering, tagging and automatic PDF file renaming.
• Citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org, and LibreOffice.
• Import of documents and research papers from external websites (e.g., PubMed,
Google Scholar, Arxiv) via browser bookmarklet.
• BibTeX export/file sync.
• Private groups to collaboratively tag and annotate research papers.
• Public groups to share reading lists.
• Social networking features (newsfeeds, comments, profile pages, etc.).
• Usage-based readership statistics about papers, authors and publications.
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57. Comparison of tools across ASNSs
Espinoza Vasquez, F.K., Caicedo Bastidas, C.E. (2015).
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58. Share your work with some of your
colleagues (preferably from various
disciplines), who are not afraid of
truly criticizing you
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59. Thank you
• Dr. Mahmoud Danaee
• mdanaee@um.edu.my
Visiting Senior Research Fellow
• Department of Social and Preventive Medicine,
• Faculty of Medicine,University of Malaya,50603 Kuala Lumpur,
• MALAYSIA.
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