TY - DATA T1 - Academic social networking and research impact PY - 2015/12/30 AU - Nader Ale Ebrahim UR - https://figshare.com/articles/presentation/Academic_social_networking_By_Nader_Ale_Ebrahim_pdf/2059254 DO - 10.6084/m9.figshare.2059254.v3 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/3639063 KW - H-index KW - Improve citations KW - Research tools KW - Bibliometrics KW - E-mail marketing KW - Research Visibility KW - Education KW - Higher Education N2 - Academic social networking allows you to connect with other researchers in your field, share your publications and datasets, get feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work, and to stay current with news and events in your field of interest. It gives you another place to establish your name and research and perhaps even collaborate with others. The academic social networking, making your work more widely discoverable and easily available. The two best known academic social networking are ResearchGate and Academia.edu. These two networks are offer roughly the same features. ResearchGate is more closely focused on collaboration and interaction, while Academia.edu often functions more as an academic version of LinkedIn, with an online CV and as a place to share your publications. ER -