Use, knowledge and assessment of the scientific digital social networks in the Galician universities
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https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2018.sep.13Keywords:
Scientific social networks (SSN), Academic social networks, Science 2.0, Researchers, Universities, Galician universities, Surveys, ResearchGate.Abstract
Scientific social networks (SSN) have been an important advance in the dissemination of knowledge in the scientific community. There are more and more researchers who agree on the need to join some SSN on account of the many advantages of visibility and impact they offer. This research paper studies the knowledge and use of SSN in the three Galician universities in 2017. Surveys of 552 professor/researchers from A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela and Vigo universities show that the knowledge and use of SSN have a growing trend, and that its management and usefulness assessment is positive, although their access frequency is still low.
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