Improving Research Visibility Part 6: Academic Social Networking





Improving Research Visibility Part 6: Academic Social Networking

byNader Ale Ebrahim
Researchers
needs to remove many traditional obstacles to disseminate and outreach
their research outputs. Academic social networking allows you to connect
with other researchers in your field, share your publications, and get
feedback on your non-peer-reviewed work. The academic social networking,
making your work more widely discoverable and easily available. The two
best known academic social networking are ResearchGate and
Academia.edu. These sites offer an instant technique to monitor what
other people are looking at in your field of research. Both networks are
offer roughly the same features. ResearchGate is more closely focused
on collaboration and interaction, while Academia.edu often functions
more as an academic version of LinkedIn, with an online CV and as a
place to share your publications.

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