ResearchGate and its scientific academic effect: an analytical exploratory study. | ||||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
| Article 11, Volume 7, المجلد السابع -العدد الأول - Serial Number 1, June 2020, Page 358-386 PDF (1.55 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2020.105233 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Dr.. Reham Asim Ghoneim* | ||||
| Assistant Professor of Information Faculty of Arts - University of Menoufia | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| ResearchGate is one of the most popular academic social networking sites that aims to help researchers collaborate and exchange information in an academic social setting. This study sought to explore ResearchGate by analyzing a set of available and downloaded publications on the site where the study identified (401) publications to conduct a series of statistical analyzes aimed at measuring the nature of the relationships between the age of posts and the percentage of views and electronic attendance to them as well as the thematic areas of publications available on the RG and distribution The categorical nature of these publications, in addition to measuring the temporal, objective and factual correlation of the publications with the size of the observations for those publications, and evaluating the scientific impact of the sample's publications according to the size of the observations that you have on ResearchGate, as well as evaluating the science impact For the publications themselves according to the categorical and thematic distribution of this, with an indication of the size and nature of the association of social standards with the RG with its academic standards, and the measurement of the relationship between ResearchGate indicators and reference citations with Scopus. A Spearman scale is used to measure the strength and nature of a relationship. The results indicate that the year of publication is the most common year for documents to be uploaded, which suggests that RG users rely on them to archive old research along with the availability of recent research. The publications available over the sample years varied between four main subject areas (medical and health sciences - Physical and Natural Sciences - Life Sciences - Social Sciences and Humanities), as well as the qualitative diversity of documents and materials available and loaded on the RG. As the RG publications varied during the sample periods between scientific articles - conference work - presentations - in addition to a variety of other forms, the study also found an average direct correlation between the observations and the reference citations, as well as the recommendations and posts (0.5+ (While we find a complete direct correlation (1.0+) between both the actual readings and downloads of the publication, and the citations, the study also concludes that there is an intermediate direct relationship (+0.5) between (Views, Recommendations and Participation as indicators of RG and reference citations in Scopus as a traditional indicator The scientific value of the publications, with a complete direct relationship (1.0+) between both readings and downloads as indicators for RG and the volume of reference citations for the same publications in Scopus, in addition to that there is a complete direct correlation (1.0+) between both reference citations in RG and reference citations in Scopus This study indicates that the alternative methods and indicators that ResearchGate provides to evaluate scientific publications can be with further study and analysis relied upon to measure the activity and scientific impact of the publications or various thematic sectors. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| ResearchGate | ||||
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