ACADEMICS' USE OF ACADEMIC SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES: THE CASE OF RESEARCHGATE AND ACADEMIA.EDU

摘要

The behaviour of academics in ASNS shows that they recognize the network as a mechanism for the creation of social capital and for an attempt to transform it into professional capital. In a world where academic faculty members are judged by the number of works that they publish and the number of citations that the works receive an instrument that allows them to influence the extent of their exposure and increase the likelihood of citation delivers much power and utility.