Open Science is a disruptive phenomenon that is emerging around the world and especially
in Europe. Open Science brings about socio-cultural and technological change, based on …

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

ResearchGate is increasingly used by scholars to upload the full-text of their articles and
make them freely available for everyone. This study aims to investigate the extent to which …

Following in the footsteps of the model of scientific communication, which has recently gone
through a metamorphosis (from the Gutenberg galaxy to the Web galaxy), a change in the …

This article provides the final results of a 3‐year study that sought to discover whether early
career researchers (ECRs) were the harbingers of change with respect to scholarly …

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

ResearchGate (RG) is a scholarly social network that possesses an impressive array of
reputational metrics and has the potential to supplant publishers as the prime deliverer of …

Social networks have become popular among researchers and scientists. Specialized
platforms for researchers offer many metrics and indicators which are used to evaluate …

Research on scholars' use of social media suggests that these sites are increasingly being
used to enhance scholarly communication by strengthening relationships, facilitating …

In this paper we present a first large-scale analysis of the relationship between Mendeley
readership and citation counts with particular documents' bibliographic characteristics. A …