ResearchGate: An effective altmetric indicator for active researchers?

Yu, Min; Wu, Yuheng; Alhalabi, Wadee; Kao, Hao Yun; Wu, Wen‐Jeng

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.007

Cited by 120 publications

(98 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Also at the institutional level, RG Scores had low correlations (0.2) with ad-hoc university rankings and small negative correlations (-0.1) with the Leiden citation-based rankings (Thelwall and Kousha, 2015). Stronger correlations were obtained between institutional RG Scores and average research quality for UK universities (Pearson 0.4) (Yu et al, 2016). The stronger correlation may be due to size correlating with quality for UK universities, giving a substantial spurious association, or the use of an inappropriate correlation coefficient for skewed data.…”

Section: The Rg Score For Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG score?

Lepori

Thelwall

Hoorani

2018

Journal of Informetrics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

While ResearchGate has become the most popular academic social networking site in terms of regular users, not all institutions have joined and the scores it assigns to academics and institutions are controversial. This paper assesses the presence in ResearchGate of higher education institutions in Europe and the US in 2017, and the extent to which institutional ResearchGate Scores reflect institutional academic impact. Most of the 2,258 European and 4,355 US higher educational institutions included in the sample had an institutional ResearchGate profile, with near universal coverage for PhD-awarding institutions found in the Web of Science (WoS). For non-PhD awarding institutions that did not publish, size (number of staff members) was most associated with presence in ResearchGate. For PhD-awarding institutions in WoS, presence in RG was strongly related to the number of WoS publications. In conclusion, a) institutional RG scores reflect research volume more than visibility and b) this indicator is highly correlated to the number of WoS publications. Hence, the value of RG Scores for institutional comparisons is limited.

show abstract

Section: The Rg Score For Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 93%

Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG score?

Lepori

Thelwall

Hoorani

2018

Journal of Informetrics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…impact points, number of citations and downloads etc.) can measure researchers', institutions' and countries' academic performance in a more holistic way (Yu et al, 2016). This is probably an indication that some academic SNS are more popular than the others and therefore they can predict academic performance better than the rest.…”

Section: Engagement and Collaboration Within Academia And The Role Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Academic engagement: Differences between intention to adopt Social Networking Sites and other online technologies

Dermentzi

Papagiannidis

Osório³

et al. 2016

Computers in Human Behavior

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Activities on social media have been an emerging approach to evaluate the early impact of scholarly publications, and studies based on Twitter [1–3], Researchgate [4, 5], web CV [6, 7] and so on have been conducted in literature. As a generalization of article level metrics, altmetrics can assess the popularity or social impact of publications based on data collected by social media platforms [8, 9].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bibliographic Analysis of Nature Based on Twitter and Facebook Altmetrics Data

Xia

Wang

et al. 2016

PLoS ONE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper presents a bibliographic analysis of Nature articles based on altmetrics. We assess the concern degree of social users on the Nature articles through the coverage analysis of Twitter and Facebook by publication year and discipline. The social media impact of a Nature article is examined by evaluating the mention rates on Twitter and on Facebook. Moreover, the correlation between tweets and citations is analyzed by publication year, discipline and Twitter user type to explore factors affecting the correlation. The results show that Twitter users have a higher concern degree on Nature articles than Facebook users, and Nature articles have higher and faster-growing impact on Twitter than on Facebook. The results also show that tweets and citations are somewhat related, and they mostly measure different types of impact. In addition, the correlation between tweets and citations highly depends on publication year, discipline and Twitter user type.

show abstract

ResearchGate: An effective altmetric indicator for active researchers?

Cited by 120 publications

References 22 publications

Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG score?

Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG score?

Academic engagement: Differences between intention to adopt Social Networking Sites and other online technologies

Bibliographic Analysis of Nature Based on Twitter and Facebook Altmetrics Data

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About