Ale Ebrahim, Nader ResearchGate & Academia: Networks for Researchers to Improve Research Impact Researchers needs to remove many traditional obstacles to reach the general public. Academic social networking allows you to connect with other researchers in your field, share your publications, and get feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work. 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 sites offer an instant technique to monitor what other people are looking at in your field of research. Both 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. Research visibility;Research tools;Improve Citations;Increase research impact;Bibliometrics;H-index;academic social networks;Higher Education;Education;Education systems not elsewhere classified;Education Policy;Economics of Education 2017-01-24
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