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Social networks formed by follower–followee relationships on academic social networking sites: an examination of corporation users
Scientometrics ( IF 3.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-17 , DOI: 10.1007/s11192-020-03553-y
Weiwei Yan , Qian Liu , Ruoyu Chen , Shengwei Yi

As academic social networking sites become important platforms for researchers to carry out research activities, more and more corporation researchers begin to use them. This paper explores the academic interactive behaviors of corporation users on academic social networking sites based on their social networks formed by follower–followee relationships. We take ResearchGate (RG), one of the largest popular academic social networking sites, as the research object, and obtain users’ follower–followee data from top 100 research corporations to reveal their interactive characteristics from perspectives of regional distribution, institutional type and research area using social network analysis. Results demonstrate that corporation users tend to connect with institutional users in regions with high research impact, and that they interact most significantly with universities among types of institutions. Very few interdisciplinary interactions are observed in academic social networks of corporation users, with technology being the only field where such interactions are likely to happen. We discuss users’ social networks on academic social networking sites from the perspective of corporations. Our findings target top research corporations for setting standards for others to utilize academic social networking sites, guide corporation users to conduct scientific communication across regions and research areas, and encourage corporations to carry out industry–university–research cooperations on academic social networking sites.

中文翻译:

学术社交网站上由追随者-追随者关系形成的社交网络:对企业用户的考察

随着学术社交网站成为研究人员开展研究活动的重要平台,越来越多的企业研究人员开始使用它们。本文基于企业用户在学术社交网站上的学术互动行为,基于他们的追随者-追随者关系形成的社交网络。我们以最大的热门学术社交网站之一的ResearchGate(RG)为研究对象,从排名前100的研究公司中获取用户的follower-followee数据,从区域分布、机构类型和研究的角度揭示它们的交互特征。区域使用社交网络分析。结果表明,企业用户倾向于与研究影响较大的地区的机构用户建立联系,并且他们在各类机构中与大学的互动最为显着。在公司用户的学术社交网络中观察到的跨学科互动很少,技术是唯一可能发生这种互动的领域。我们从企业的角度讨论学术社交网站上用户的社交网络。我们的研究结果针对顶级研究公司为他人使用学术社交网站制定标准,引导企业用户跨地区和研究领域进行科学交流,并鼓励企业在学术社交网站上开展产学研合作。在公司用户的学术社交网络中观察到的跨学科互动很少,技术是唯一可能发生这种互动的领域。我们从企业的角度讨论学术社交网站上用户的社交网络。我们的研究结果针对顶级研究公司为他人使用学术社交网站制定标准,引导企业用户跨地区和研究领域进行科学交流,并鼓励企业在学术社交网站上开展产学研合作。在公司用户的学术社交网络中观察到的跨学科互动很少,技术是唯一可能发生这种互动的领域。我们从企业的角度讨论学术社交网站上用户的社交网络。我们的研究结果针对顶级研究公司为他人使用学术社交网站制定标准,引导企业用户跨地区和研究领域进行科学交流,并鼓励企业在学术社交网站上开展产学研合作。
更新日期:2020-06-17
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