Social media has become integrated into the fabric of the scholarly communication system in
fundamental ways, principally through scholarly use of social media platforms and the …

Traditionally, the success of a researcher is assessed by the number of publications he or
she publishes in peer-reviewed, indexed, high impact journals. This essential yardstick …

Systematic reviews, a cornerstone of evidence-based medicine, are not produced quickly
enough to support clinical practice. The cost of production, availability of the requisite …

R esearch G ate is a social network site for academics to create their own profiles, list their
publications, and interact with each other. Like Academia. edu, it provides a new way for …

Academic social-networking sites (ASNS) such as Academia. edu and ResearchGate are
becoming very popular among academics. These sites allow uploading academic articles …

Context Until recently, Web of Science was the only database available to track citation
counts for published articles. Other databases are now available, but their relative …

Academic social network sites A cademia. edu and R esearchGate, and reference sharing
sites M endeley, B ibsonomy, Z otero, and C ite UL ike, give scholars the ability to publicize …

The growing flood of scholarly literature is exposing the weaknesses of current, citation–
based methods of evaluating and filtering articles. A novel and promising approach is to …

In growing numbers, scholars are integrating social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and
Mendeley into their professional communications. The online, public nature of these tools …

Background The soil represents a reservoir that contains at least twice as much carbon as
does the atmosphere, yet (apart from 'root crops') mainly just the above-ground plant …