TY - JOUR
T1 - Academic social networking
T2 - From individual acts to institutional, disciplinary, national, and social phenomena
AU - Zhang, Yin
AU - Yan, Weiwei
AU - Oh, Sanghee
AU - Lee, Jongwook
AU - Kurata, Keiko
AU - Matsubayashi, Mamiko
N1 - Funding Information:
Keiko Kurata is Professor at the Department of Library and Information Science, Keio University, Japan. Her research interest is on the ecosystem of scholarly communication in the digital age, and now her research project, with funding from The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, investigates the relationship among the social contexts of collaborative research such as the norm of the discipline, research practices, data practices, and scholarly communication such as articles. Her monograph The System of Scholarly Communication and Open Access received the Award for the best work of the year from Japan Society of Library and Information Science. She has also published articles on digital reading. Her research information can be accessible from https://keio.pure.elsevier.com/ja/persons/keiko-kurata . Jongwook Lee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at Kyungpook National University, South Korea. He earned a bachelor's degree in Library and Information Science from Kyungpook National University, South Korea, a master's degree in Information Science from Indiana University Bloomington, and a PhD in Information Studies from Florida State University. He is interested in conducting research on different aspects of scholarly communications, including creation, distribution, evaluation, and use of research. He studies researchers' information and collaboration practices using quantitative and qualitative research methods in cooperation with other researchers. Sanghee Oh is Associate Professor in the Department of Library and Information Science, Chungnam National University, South Korea. She obtained her PhD in Information & Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. Prior to joining the faculty in March 2017, she served as Assistant Professor in the School of Information, Florida State University. Her areas of research interest are human information behaviors, social informatics, and health informatics. Sanghee has studied people's motivations, evaluations, and use of social media, utilizing the mixed methods of content analysis, data/text mining, and online surveys. Her research and teaching information is available on her website: http://shoh.cnu.ac.kr . Mamiko Matsubayashi is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, the University of Tsukuba, Japan. She earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in Library and Information Science from Keio University, Japan. She has been particularly interested in information practices among scientists and has studied information practices among scientists, students, and the general public using qualitative methods. Weiwei Yan is Associate Professor in the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, China. He also obtained his PhD there. In August 2016 – August 2017, he came to Kent State University as a visiting scholar. His research interests include user information behavior and scientific collaboration. His research project, “Collaborative information behavior in scientific cooperation”, has received a Chinese National Funding of Social Science. He has studied scientific cooperation motivations, collaboration behavior characteristics, collaboration networks, and is specifically interested in user behavior and scientific collaboration in ASNSs such as ResearchGate. Yin Zhang is Professor at the School of Information, Kent State University. She received her PhD in Library and Information Science from University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign, and her B.S. and M.S. in Information Science from Wuhan University, China. Her research and teaching areas include user information‐seeking behavior, information uses and services, informetrics, scientometrics, and information technology applications. More information is available at: http://yinzhang.ischool.kent.edu/ .
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PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Academic social networking sites (ASNSs) are widely being adopted by individual academics. There has been an increasing research interest in this new phenomenon. This panel brings a group of researchers to share and discuss their recent research to address the research gaps in the following areas: (1) the institutional and disciplinary user structures and their behavior characteristics in ASNSs; and (2) how academics from non-English speaking countries use ASNSs and how the use may differ from their counterparts in U.S. Collectively, various studies presented in the panel will help achieve a better understanding of scholarly use of ASNSs in a broader scale.
AB - Academic social networking sites (ASNSs) are widely being adopted by individual academics. There has been an increasing research interest in this new phenomenon. This panel brings a group of researchers to share and discuss their recent research to address the research gaps in the following areas: (1) the institutional and disciplinary user structures and their behavior characteristics in ASNSs; and (2) how academics from non-English speaking countries use ASNSs and how the use may differ from their counterparts in U.S. Collectively, various studies presented in the panel will help achieve a better understanding of scholarly use of ASNSs in a broader scale.
KW - Academic social networking
KW - ResearchGate
KW - scholarly communication
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U2 - 10.1002/pra2.99
DO - 10.1002/pra2.99
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075922993
SN - 2373-9231
VL - 56
SP - 590
EP - 593
JO - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
JF - Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology
IS - 1
ER -