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Studies on the use of academic social networking sites by academics and researchers: a review

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Title Studies on the use of academic social networking sites by academics and researchers: a review
 
Creator Majumdar, Sandip
 
Subject Social Networking sites
Academic social networking
Network structure analysis
 
Description 158-168
The present review is an endeavour to understand the use of Academic Social Networking (ASN) sites by academics and
researchers during the 2001-2020. The literature indicates existence of disciplinary differences in choice of ASN platforms
as well as frequency of use of a particular platform by users belonging to a particular discipline. The strong disciplinary
influence could be attributed to variations in social and cultural practices of a particular discipline. The review finds
professional visibility as one of the outstanding motivating factors for academics and researchers to join ASN sites. Seeking
scholarly answer, accruing citations, seeking expert, sharing research literature by availing self-archiving facilities of ASN
sites, exploring collaborative research avenues and job seeking are some other important motivators. The review noticed that
alternative metrics have become a strong contender for measuring research impact. The review also found age and gender
discrimination, snooping, academic cyber bullying, flooding of ASN sites with substandard literature as some concerns
which need concerted attention and suggests more research in these fronts and accordingly modification of ASN interfaces
to make them more responsive to user’s needs.
 
Date 2022-06-24T10:39:07Z
2022-06-24T10:39:07Z
2022-06
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-2404 (Online); 0972-5423 (Print)
http://nopr.niscpr.res.in/handle/123456789/59899
 
Language en
 
Publisher NIScPR-CSIR, India
 
Source ALIS Vol.69(2) [June 2022]