Use of Academic Social Network Sites for Research Trending

1. Research Network
Joan Wee, NTU Libraries
5 Feb 2014

2. Uses of network
 Circulate working papers for comments by the scholarly
community
 Search for collaborators
 Reputation building

3. Research Trending

4. Tenure Application

5. Readability

6. Academic Social Network Sites
 Profiles sites and repositories
 Network and find collaborators
 For Peer-reviewed
General
Subject Specific
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Menedeley
SAGE Research Methods
ResearcherID
SSRN
RePEc
MCRN
BioMedExperts.com
Epernicus

7. Comparison
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Mendeley
SSRN
Coverage
All
All
All
Specific subjects
Network size
7.1 million
3 million
1.6 million
239,102
Full-text
1.6 million
17.6 million
200 million
420,454
Analytics
Profiles
Doc views
Download
Countries
Followers
Following
Profiles
Doc views,
Download
Request for fulltext
Countries
Followers
Following
Q&A
RG index
Doc views
Readership
stats
Doc views
Download stats
Citation
Ranking
Eigenfactor
Collaborators
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Job
Yes. Via job
board. Can load
CV.
Yes. List skills and
Expertise.
Yes. Can load
CV.
No
Share files
Papers, data,
Github
Papers, data,
patents
Papers
Papers

8. Comparison
Academia.edu
ResearchGate
Mendeley
SSRN
Link to OA or external
URL
Yes
No. Except if you
have load the fulltext.
Yes.
Yes
Track versions
No
No
No
Yes (private
papers)
Login
FB, Google
FB
FB
Sign up with email
Sign-up with
institution email only
Sign-up with
email
Sign-up with
email
Free
Free
Free
Free
Fee for
premium /
institutional ac
Fee for access to
e-journals
Access

9. Academia.edu
 Go to http://www.academia.edu
 Login with your Google or Facebook account
 Go to http://nanyang.academia.edu
 Search for your professor

11. ResearchGate
 Go to
www.researchgate.net
 Login with your Facebook account

18. Mendeley
 Login using facebook
account
 More than a online
reference tool
 Follow or join groups
 Statistics on who is
reading your paper

22. SSRN
(Prebble, Caldwell, & Keene, 2013)
 As of Nov 2013, SSRN contains 514,008 abstracts and
420,454 full-text papers contributed by 239,102 authors
 Papers upload to SSRN : tracks number of downloads,
number of citations, edited paper receives a fresh date of
submission
 Subject areas : Accounting, Anthropology & Archaeology, Corporate
Governance, Cognitive Science, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance,
Health Economics, Hebew, Humanities: Classics, Humanities: Literature,
Humanities: Music & Composition, Humanities: Philosophy, Humanities:
Rhetoric & Communication, Information Systems & eBusiness, Innovation,
Law, Leadership, Management, Marketing, Negotiation, Political Science,
Social Insurance, Sustainability

24. Author Page

26. Role of Librarians
…Librarians might help colleagues prepare their careers for a
more social-media-driven environment by explaining basic
social networking best practices, which might include
something as basic as a profile on a site like Academia.edu, or
any other publicly available site that allows users to list their
publications. For example, Google Scholar has a component
that allows users to claim articles and build a profile, with the
option of keeping the profile private, although that would seem
to defeat the purpose of these new analytic tools, that seek to
measure public engagement.
(Ovadia, 2013)

27. Activities
 Which Research Network(s) are your professors using?
(Look for 2-3 faculty from your school)
 Where can you locate “experts” in your subject area?
 Share your findings and experience as a blog posting

28. Reference
 Kelly, B. (2013, February 6) Why I’m evaluating ResearchGate. [Web log post]
Retrieved from http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/why-im-evaluatingresearchgate/
 Ovadia, S. (2013). When Social Media Meets Scholarly Publishing. Behavioral & Social
Sciences Librarian,32(3), 194-198.
 Prebble, J., Caldwell, J., & Keene, A. (2013). Using the Social Science Research
Network to aid and to promote research. Victoria University Of Wellington Law Review,
44(3/4), 631-652.