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Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications

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Explore related works, citations, authors, and publications

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The world's largest professional network:300 million strong

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The world's largest professional network:300 million strong

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Started 2003

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Stand on the shoulders of giants

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Search across a wide variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions.

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Facebook hjälper dig att hålla kontakten med vänner och familj

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track the research of academics they follow

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track the research of academics they follow

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monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research,

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monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research,

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ResearchGate was built by scientists, for scientists

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ResearchGate was built by scientists, for scientists

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started 2008

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Get stats about views, downloads, and citations of your research

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Mendeley - Reference Management Software

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Add papers directly from your browser with a few clicks or import any documents from your desktop. Access your library from anywhere. Windows, Mac, Linux and all browsers. Learn about the library > Generate references, citations and bibliographies in a whole range of journal styles with just a few clicks.

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Join 20,413,036 Researchers

With 30 million monthly visitors, Academia.edu is the best way to share research.

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"I go through all the articles in the bulk download, save the ones that are clearly going to be useful and discard the remainder. This saves loads of time but also points me in directions I might not otherwise have thought of looking."

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Academia.edu is a place to share and follow research.

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As university professor, with great pressure to publish in academic journals, I find academic generalist networks essential, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu or Mendeley, which help me to:

Disseminate on the web my published articles to try to obtain citations and name among the scientific community in my field of expertise

Find research papers quickly and easily

Search for collaboration and international research projects

Share ideas and find solutions

I wonder if you can do the same on Facebook or . Facebook don't clearly do it because it's very focused on leisure and personal life but, what about Linkedin? With millions of professors and professionals connected interested in science/research?

But no, it seems that we need a specific one to ourselves that differentiate researchers, with specific functionalities on usability and sociability (mainly source credibility), two main factors for evaluating online communities ( Chinthakalaya, 2013).

I don't intend to make a thorough analysis of the technical and functional characteristics of these platforms, but rather from the point of view of the user or scientist, offer an outline of their main features, to make the most of our time and know what you can expect from each. And although this is a blog and not a scientific research project, I have also taken into account the views of other users in the academic networks, such as those expressed in ResearchGate in this forum.

Obviously, I have created profiles on all platforms, so one important point is that you are forced to be on all of them, but if not constantly updated (profile and papers), the effort will be useless.

I'd highlight its:

Interactivity: Collaboration and discovery through its discussions/questions and publication repository,

Intelligence: The statistics and the scoring about your work are a great invitation / encouragement to participate and interact, though its administrators are very aware of all that is posted in the network, manipulating content, as if we were small children.

And source credibility: only researchers are accepted, and they use it a lot because of the scoring mentioned above.

But ResearchGate still has to improve its repository: I find it difficult to upload all my publications, not just papers, and it sometimes doesn't find the links to get data when uploading them.

Its strength point is the repository of publications: Allows you to post the link on your paper, so other researchers can download your papers directly from the original source (SSRN, RepEc, arXiv.org, CiteCeerX or SSOAR), which increase your score on these repositories, if that is important for anyone.

But I find it less democratic so at the end less interactive: It's very restrictive when disclosing your ideas to exchange views with other researchers. For example Academia.edu has deleted almost all of my new discussions, and they even closed my first profile there and I had to open another, which gives me the creepy feeling of censorship and guarded by a big brother with the excuse of spam.

It works more as a reference management system (organize and search bibliographies, add papers from the web to your library, etc.) with both online and desktop versions, sometimes difficult to understand. So it isn't an academic network, but it has "a social network integrated", which can give you an idea of its limited social and sharing capabilities.

It also has strong corporate and lucrative connotations: Mendeley was acquired in 2013 by Elsevier, the publishing house; yes, the one that is requesting scientific social-networking sites and authors to remove the papers posted online without their permission.

In conclusion, ResearchGate and Academia.edu are very similar social networks for scientists, each with their particular strengths/software, but I foresee a better future for ResearchGate because of its commitment to sociability, though not as much as Linkedin, my favorite generalist academic network.
Too bad they aren't specialized in socializing the process of publishing in scholarly journals, both to editors and authors.

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Academic networks contest: ResearchGate vs. Academia vs. Mendeley

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As university professor, with great pressure to publish in academic journals, I find academic generalist networks essential, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu or Mendeley, which help me to: Disseminate on the web my published articles to try to obtain citations and name among the scientific community in my field of expertise Find research papers quickly and easily...

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