ResearchGate (RG) is an academic social networking (ASN) site that used worldwide for scholarly communication. This study examines RG users from 21 top Chinese research universities and 61 U.S. three activity levels to identify the differences in participation, interactions, influences between their affiliated institutions on this ASN platform. The implications communication evaluation using al...

Identifying important scholarly literature at an early stage is vital to the academic research community and other stakeholders such as technology companies government bodies. Due sheer amount of published growth ever-changing interdisciplinary areas, researchers need efficient way identify work. The number citations a given publication has accrued been used for this purpose, but these take tim...