Social network sites enable people to easily connect to and communicate with others.
Following the success of generic platforms such as Facebook, a variety of online services …

The changing world of scholarly communication and the emerging new wave of 'Open
Science'or 'Open Research'has brought to light a number of controversial and hotly debated …

Despite growing interest in Open Access (OA) to scholarly literature, there is an unmet need
for large-scale, up-to-date, and reproducible studies assessing the prevalence and …

Abstract This article uses Google Scholar (GS) as a source of data to analyse Open Access
(OA) levels across all countries and fields of research. All articles and reviews with a DOI …

Nowadays, to protect and secure interest of innovators and research information in
decentralized ledger-based echo system using blockchain technology to minimize the …

ResearchGate has launched its own citation index by extracting citations from documents
uploaded to the site and reporting citation counts on article profile pages. Since authors may …

The purpose of this paper was to assess the presence of researchers on two author identifier
services (ORCID and ResearcherID) and to compare the results with two academic social …

ResearchGate and Academia. edu have been increasingly acknowledged as the most
popular academic social network sites (ASNS) for scholarly communication. Along with their …

Currently available online profiling platforms offer various services for researchers and
authors. Opening an individual account and filling it with scholarly contents increase visibility …

Progress to open access (OA) has stalled, with perhaps 20% of new papers 'born‐free', and
half of all versions of record pay‐walled; why? In this paper, I review the last 12 months …