Information Exchange on an Academic Social Networking Site: A Multi-discipline Comparison on ResearchGate Q&A
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The increasing popularity of academic social networking sites (ASNSs) requires studies on the usage of ASNSs among scholars, and evaluations of the effectiveness of these ASNSs. However, it is unclear whether current ASNSs have fulfilled their design goal, as scholars’ actual online interactions on these platforms remain unexplored. To fill the gap, this paper presents a study based on data collected from ResearchGate. Adopting a mixed-method
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عنوان ژورنال:
- JASIST
دوره 68 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2017