A ResearchGate-way to an international academic community?
A ResearchGate-way to an international academic community?
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DOI：
10.1007/s11192-020-03772-3
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发表时间：
2020-11
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
S. Mason;Yusuke Sakurai
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作者：
S. Mason;Yusuke Sakurai
学术社交网络 (ASN) 正在成为研究人员职业生活中的重要工具，为国际学术讨论提供在线空间。在微观层面，ASN 有助于促进 (a) 知识共享、(b) 网络和 (c) 身份构建。 ResearchGate (RG) 等 ASN 可能会支持那些在现代学术环境中被边缘化的研究人员进入学术社区，现代学术环境优先考虑由大多数西方国家资源丰富的机构中的知名研究人员进行的研究。这项全国性研究遵循最近发表的日本案例研究，调查了全国 500 多名研究人员对 RG 的使用情况。作者调查了参与者使用 RG 3 个微观层面组件的意识和规律性，以及采用它们的好处和挑战。研究发现，虽然 RG 在很大程度上被认为对参与者有价值，但其使用在知识共享方面是不平衡的，知识共享进一步仅限于发布英语输出和获取个人消费的文献。因此，RG 可能被定位为一种工具而不是社区，后者需要与平台进行更平衡的参与，特别是在网络领域。讨论中提出了一些实现这一目标的实用想法。
Academic Social Networks (ASNs) are becoming an important tool in the professional lives of researchers, providing an online space for international academic discourse. At the micro-level, ASNs serve to facilitate, (a) knowledge sharing, (b) networking, and (c) identity-building. ASNs such as ResearchGate (RG) may support entry into scholarly communities by researchers who are otherwise marginalized in a modern academic environment that privileges research conducted by established researchers in well-resourced institutions in mostly western countries. This national study follows a recently published case study of Japan, and surveys the use of RG by more than 500 researchers across the country. The authors investigate participants’ awareness and regularity of use of the 3 micro-level components of RG, and the benefits and challenges of their adoption. The study finds that while RG is largely perceived as valuable for participants, use is unbalanced toward knowledge sharing, which is further limited to posting English-language outputs and accessing literature for personal consumption. Thus, RG may be positioned as a tool rather than a community, the latter requiring a more balanced engagement with the platform, particularly in the networking area. Some practical ideas for achieving this are offered in the discussion.