The use of academic social networks by the academy
Keywords:
doctors, doctoral degrees, academic social networks, Universidad Central de Venezuela, socialization of knowledgeAbstract
The objective of this paper is to investigate the practices and preferences of the Central University of Venezuela doctoral graduates in disseminating and extending the results of their research to society as a whole through their publications on academic social networks, on the basis that this diffusion varies in each discipline. The graduates who were taken are those registered and with their doctoral theses in the
institutional repository of the Universidad Central de Venezuela: SaberUCV. The presence of this group of doctors is described in the academic social networks Academica.edu, ResearchGate and the search engine Google Scholar. There is a weak presence of this group of doctors in the academic networks Academia.edu and ResearchGate, and they have in greater visibility in Google Scholar, consequently, hey miss opportunities to publicize their research and exchange with peers or citizens interested in academic issues.
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https://www.thescientist.com/.../majorpublishersfilesecondlawsuitagainstresearch...
Lepori, Benedetto; Thelwall, Mike & Hafeez Hoorani, Bareerah. (2018). Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in Research Gate and what affects their RG score? Journal of Informetrics. 12 (3) 80618.
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Mercury News & Eats Bay Times Editorial Boards (2019, March 6). Editorial: UC open access fight exposes publishing ripoff.
Recuperado de:https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/03/06/editorialucopenaccessfightexposespublishingripoff/
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Published
2020-01-05
How to Cite
Jiménez, E. (2020). The use of academic social networks by the academy. Mayéutica Revista Científica De Humanidades Y Artes, 8, 13-33. Retrieved from https://revistas.uclave.org/index.php/mayeutica/article/view/2425
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