Scholarly Reputation Building: How does ResearchGate Fare?
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Emerging reputational platforms, scholarly reputation, scholarly social networksAbstract
ResearchGate, with its 8 million members, is the talk of the scholarly world and this is mainly because it is muscling in on traditional scholarly publishers’ territory, most notably, by delivering scholarly reputation in a big way. Using a conceptual framework of the tasks and activities that comprise today’s digital scholarly undertaking and their potentially reputation building, maintaining and enhancing components ResearchGate’s efforts in supporting scholars’ reputation building endeavours are comprehensively assessed. Not unexpectedly, RG performs well in regard to the scholarships of research and integration. Clearly, too, RG is in a league of its own when it comes to monitoring individual and institutional reputation. Where RG falls down is in informing members as to the nature and changes to its service and embracing new actors, such as citizen scientists and amateur experts.
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