Survey on opinions and usage patterns for the ResearchGate platform

Meier, Andreas; Tunger, Dirk

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0204945

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“…Further, they were seldom used for discussion or interaction, as evidenced by the fact that only 6 questions were asked or answered among the 81 researchers who have a profile in ResearchGate, which aligns with findings in previous literature. Meier and Tunger (2018) found that only 19% of ResearchGate users in physics, biology, medicine, and neuroscience had asked a question, and 49% had provided an answer. Shrivastava and Mahajan (2017) also found that only 12% of the physics researchers in an Indian university asked or answered a question.…”

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confidence: 99%

Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A Case Study of a Canadian Research University

Zhang

2020

ISTL

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Researchers are increasingly using academic profile websites to organize and showcase their research outputs. Using the faculty at the science departments of the University of Saskatchewan, Canada as the study object, this research explores how science researchers used four academic profile websites: ResearchGate, Google Scholar Citations, Academia.edu, and ORCID. It was found that 78% of the researchers had established at least one academic profile, with ResearchGate being the most popular platform, Google Scholar Citations the second, followed at some distance by ORCID and Academia.edu. A high percentage of ORCID users did not list any of their publications, meaning their presence on ORCID was merely symbolic. We also found that the social interaction functions provided by ResearchGate were not well adopted. Findings from this study call for the improvement of the workflow of adding publications to ORCID profile.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A Case Study of a Canadian Research University

Zhang

2020

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“…There are examples of scientific fraud detection that led to retractions of articles thanks to this resource. 10 Furthermore, certain platforms, the primary purpose of which is other, allow post-publication peer review, among them Researchgate, 11 a social network that is widely used by researchers, where users can comment on articles other authors post on their personal profiles. Publons 12 is a platform designed to build a researcher's profile, where scientific production is incorporated in terms of articles, patents, as well as post-publication reviews of literature generated by other researchers.…”

Section: Journals and Platforms With Post-publication Peer Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-publication peer review: another sort of quality control of the scientific record in biomedicine

Martínez-Saucedo¹,

Téllez-Camacho²,

Aquino‐Jarquín³

et al. 2023

GMM

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Traditional peer review is undergoing increasing questioning, given the increase in scientific fraud detected and the replication crisis biomedical research is currently going through. Researchers, academic institutions, and research funding agencies actively promote scientific record analysis, and multiple tools have been developed to achieve this. Different biomedical journals were founded with post-publication peer review as a feature, and there are several digital platforms that make this process possible. In addition, an increasing number biomedical journals allow commenting on articles published on their websites, which is also possible in preprint repositories. Moreover, publishing houses and researchers are largely using social networks for the dissemination and discussion of articles, which sometimes culminates in refutations and retractions.

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“…Likewise, access to scientific information is undergoing profound transformations due to the emergence of new channels for the dissemination of research papers, such as repositories and social networks such as ResearchGate (Meier;Tunger, 2018). In addition, there are illegal platforms that offer access to millions of publications, such as Sci-Hub (Nicholas et al, 2019).…”

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Evolution of the big deals use in the public universities of the Castile and Leon region, Spain

Fernández-Ramos¹,

Bravo²,

Díez³

et al. 2020

EPI

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The evolution of the use of electronic scientific journals in the 2007-2018 period by the academic communities of the public universities of Castilla and Leon, members of the Bucle consortium, is studied. Downloads of articles distributed by four broad-spectrum providers are analyzed: Emerald, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and Wiley. Unexpectedly, in spite of the new ways of accessing content, this analysis shows that the number of downloads in public universities in Castile and Leon has increased. However, it has been found that despite the growth, a few journals concentrate most of the downloads and that a large number of titles are not used. It has been verified that the universities with a higher number of staff and greater diversity of knowledge areas use a wider range of titles and thus obtain a higher benefit from their contracts. All of the above leads us to question the system of contracting big deals, i.e., bundles of hundreds of multidisciplinary journals and other resources. In a moment of change promoted by Plan S, we consider it more necessary than ever to understand the situation of the provision of serial scientific publications and to find the best strategy to have access to them.

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Survey on opinions and usage patterns for the ResearchGate platform

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A Case Study of a Canadian Research University

Investigating Science Researchers’ Presence on Academic Profile Websites: A Case Study of a Canadian Research University

Post-publication peer review: another sort of quality control of the scientific record in biomedicine

Evolution of the big deals use in the public universities of the Castile and Leon region, Spain

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