Academic Social Networking Sites: An Evaluation exploratory study

Abstract

Academic social networking sites ASNs are a class of sites that seek to create a series of scientific and academic groupings and the formation of relationships between members with respect to research interests and intertwining tendencies of scientific publishing processes as a means for this. Social networks have affected the way we get to the latest articles and scientific outputs, as well as to To generate links and links between researchers and scientists, and the purpose of this study is to compare five of the most popular academic social networking sites (Research Portal, Academia.edu, Mendeley, Orcid, and Zotero) based on this with a preparation and design with me to evaluate sites Subject of study. The list includes 201 sub criteria distributed into 12 main categories. The study concluded that the study sites lack the navigation and navigation services, filtering services, filtering results, and search and browsing features, as is the case in most sites in the study that do not provide all the fields of research, and they do not complete the features of displaying data so that these sites do not provide all categories of content for download Moreover, none of the sites are given alternative measurements and sufficient analytical features, as well to this, the beneficiaries' interface for these sites needs to be improved to attract their users, which use the sites The sites lack text display features, and you cannot use by renewing the privacy settings, study sites Offer the lowest possible services to the users.