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

Lepori, Benedetto; Thelwall, Mike; Hoorani, Bareerah Hafeez

doi:10.1016/j.joi.2018.07.001

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“…Our data suggest that assessing the number of citations per article or h-indexes for individuals and institutions using ResearcherID or ResearchGate gives overall results that are quite different from those obtained using the Scopus database. This confirms previous findings which have shown that the usefulness of bibliometric indicators derived from ASNs for institutions [41][42][43] or individuals [30,37,44] is not clear (results are controversial depending on the ASNs and parameters studied).…”

Section: Number Of Citations Per Article and H-indexsupporting

confidence: 91%

Use of author identifier services (ORCID, ResearcherID) and academic social networks (Academia.edu, ResearchGate) by the researchers of the University of Caen Normandy (France): A case study

Boudry

Durand-Barthez

2020

PLoS ONE

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The purpose of this paper was to assess the presence of researchers on two author identifier services (ORCID and ResearcherID) and to compare the results with two academic social networks (Academia.edu and ResearchGate) using the categories of discipline, career advancement, and gender in a medium sized multidisciplinary university in France (University of Caen Normandy). Metrics such as number of publications per researcher, h-indexes, and average number of citations were also assessed. Of the 1,047 researchers studied, 673 (64.3%) had at least one profile on the four sites, and the number of researchers having multiple profiles decreased as more sites were studied. Researchers with only one profile numbered 385 (36.8%), while 204 (19.5%) had two, 68 (6.5%) had three, and only 16 (1.5%) had four. ResearchGate had by far the highest number of researchers present, with 569 (54.3%), whereas presence on the other sites was about 15%. We found that, apart from Academia.edu, researchers in Sciences, Technology, and Medicine (STM) were over-represented. Overall, experienced male researchers were over-represented on the sites studied. Our results show that, because of the numerous profiles lacking publication references (particularly on ORCID) and a low presence of researchers on the four sites studied (except for ResearchGate), assessing the number of publications, h-indexes, or average number of citations per article of individuals or institutions remains challenging. Finally, our data showed that French researchers have not adopted the use of the two author identifier sites (i.e. ORCID and ResearcherID). As long as French researchers remain reticent, these sites will not be able to provide the services for which they were created: addressing the problem of author misidentification, consequently providing exhaustive access to scientific production and bibliometric indicators of individual researchers and their institutions.

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Section: Number Of Citations Per Article and H-indexsupporting

confidence: 91%

Use of author identifier services (ORCID, ResearcherID) and academic social networks (Academia.edu, ResearchGate) by the researchers of the University of Caen Normandy (France): A case study

Boudry

Durand-Barthez

2020

PLoS ONE

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“…However, Ali et al (2017) compared the RG score of 350 Higher Education institutions in Pakistan to their positions within the 2015 ranking of Pakistani Higher Education institutions and Quacquarelli Symonds rankings, reporting no correlation. Both findings may be explained by a subsequent study by Lepori et al (2018), which examined the RG scores of 2,258 European and 4,355 US Higher Education institutions. Institutional RG scores were found to be correlated with the number of publications rather than their quality (Lepori et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 94%

“…Both findings may be explained by a subsequent study by Lepori et al (2018), which examined the RG scores of 2,258 European and 4,355 US Higher Education institutions. Institutional RG scores were found to be correlated with the number of publications rather than their quality (Lepori et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 94%

From Social Networks to Publishing Platforms: A Review of the History and Scholarship of Academic Social Network Sites

Jordan

2019

Front. Digit. Humanit.

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Social network sites enable people to easily connect to and communicate with others. Following the success of generic platforms such as Facebook, a variety of online services launched during the mid 2000s in order to bring the benefits of online social networking to an academic audience. However, it is not clear whether these academic social network sites (ASNS) are primarily aligned with social networking or alternative publishing, and functionalities continue to change. Now 10 years since the launch of the three main platforms which currently lead the market (Academia.edu, ResearchGate, and Mendeley), it is timely to review how and why ASNS are used. This paper discusses the history and definition of ASNS, before providing a comprehensive review of the empirical research related to ASNS to-date. Five main themes within the research literature are identified, including: the relationship of the platforms to Open Access publishing; metrics; interactions with others through the platforms; platform demographics and social structure; and user perspectives. Discussing the themes in the research both provides academics with a greater understanding of what ASNS can do and their limitations, and identifies gaps in the literature which would be valuable to explore in future research.

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“…Besides the organizational name (in English and national language), localization information and the website, OrgReg also includes organizational acronyms as experience showed that they are frequently used when referring to the organization. The experience made in matching OrgReg with institutional profiles in ResearchGate (Lepori, Thelwall and Hoorani 2018) showed that this information is sufficient for a precise matching, without having to store in the register name variants, with the exception of (major) changes in the official name.…”

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“…This applies to data derived from administrative sources (Lepori, Bonaccorsi, Daraio, et al 2015), from international databases on publications (Waltman, Calero-Medina, Kosten, et al 2012) and patents (De Rassenfosse, Dernis, Guellec, Picci and de la Potterie, Bruno van Pottelsberghe 2013), therefore overcoming a major limitation of many current studies based solely on output data (Abramo and D'Angelo 2016). Further, the availability of a stable list of public research organizations allows matching with data derived from on-line sources, such as institutional websites and Wikipedia, as well as of social media, such as ResearchGate (Lepori, Thelwall and Hoorani 2018) and Google Scholar, therefore significantly expanding the realm of available information on research organizations.…”

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confidence: 99%

A register of public-sector research organizations as a tool for research policy studies and evaluation

Lepori

2020

Research Evaluation

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This article presents the conceptual and methodological design of a register of public-sector organizations, as well as a preliminary delineation of such organizations in Europe. Conceptual and methodological issues are discussed, as well as the potential usage of the register for interlining datasets and analysis. The significance of the register for research policy and evaluation studies is also discussed, as related with changes associated with New Public Management reforms.

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

Cited by 26 publications

References 43 publications

Use of author identifier services (ORCID, ResearcherID) and academic social networks (Academia.edu, ResearchGate) by the researchers of the University of Caen Normandy (France): A case study

Use of author identifier services (ORCID, ResearcherID) and academic social networks (Academia.edu, ResearchGate) by the researchers of the University of Caen Normandy (France): A case study

From Social Networks to Publishing Platforms: A Review of the History and Scholarship of Academic Social Network Sites

A register of public-sector research organizations as a tool for research policy studies and evaluation

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