Groups in Academic Social Networking Services--An Exploration of Their Potential as a Platform for Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
Groups in Academic Social Networking Services--An Exploration of Their Potential as a Platform for Multi-disciplinary Collaboration
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学术社交网络服务团体——探索其作为多学科合作平台的潜力
DOI：
10.1109/passat/socialcom.2011.202
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2011
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通讯作者：
Wei Jeng
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作者：
J. Oh;Wei Jeng
跨地域、机构和(或)学科界限的协作的重要性已在研究界得到广泛承认，但这种协作存在一系列障碍。这项研究致力于了解学术社交网络服务(ASN)作为跨学科或多学科协作的媒介或平台的潜力。许多ASNS网站允许学者组成在线小组，并单独建立他们的专业网络。在这项研究中，我们考察了ASNS网站Mendeley的在线群组的用户参与模式，重点是评估来自不同学科背景的人在这些群组中的聚集程度。结果表明，虽然需要更好的手段来促进群体的形成和发展，但门德利的群体在成员构成方面表现出极大的多样性。总体而言，这项研究的结果支持了这样的观点，即在线社交网络，特别是ASN，可以为来自不同背景的研究人员提供一个寻找彼此并就共同感兴趣的问题进行合作的平台，从而促进多学科合作。
The importance of collaborations across geographical, institutional and/or disciplinary boundaries has been widely recognized in research communities, yet there exist a range of obstacles to such collaborations. This study is concerned with understanding the potential of academic social networking services (ASNS) as a medium or platform for cross-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary collaborations. Many ASNS sites allow scholars to form online groups as well as to build up their professional network individually. In this study, we look at the patterns of user participation in online groups in a ASNS site, Mendeley, with an emphasis on assessing the degree to which people from different disciplinary backgrounds gather in these groups. The results show that while there exists a need for better means to facilitate group formation and growth, the groups in Mendeley exhibit a great deal of diversity in their member composition in terms of disciplines. Overall, the findings of this study support the argument that online social networking, especially ASNS, may foster multi-disciplinary collaborations by providing a platform for researchers from diverse backgrounds to find one another and cooperate on issues of common interests.