Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to know the participating and communication of different disciplines among Myanmar academicians in ResearchGate (RG). The data were manually collected by visiting the profile pages of all members who had an account with the Institution of Myanmar in RG. In total, 1035 RG members and 59 participants' communications were analyzed by using the statistic method—Kruskal-Wallis H test under the five disciplines. The results show that Engineering and Technology disciplines massively participated than other disciplines on ResearchGate, while Natural science disciplines are more in research items. Life Science and Medicine disciplines have the most scholarly communication, respectively. There is no RG metric significant in social science disciplines. But, different disciplines of Myanmar academicians show varying levels of interest in being involved in RG with different significance Keywords: Researchgate, Myanmar academicians, Interaction, academic, social networks, question and answer site. DOI: 10.7176/IKM/11-2-03 Publication date: March 31 st 2021
Highlights
With knowledge exploration in the information age, most of people have consumed the information in their daily life and works (Wu, He, Jiang, Dong & Vo, 2012)
To address the above resaech gaps, this study explores each profile of Myanmar academicians and each scholar's communication in ResearchGate
The study found that disciplines in Engineering and Technology are more participating to explore the Information in RG, but Natural Science and Humanities disciplines intend to share more their research activities in RG
Summary
With knowledge exploration in the information age, most of people have consumed the information in their daily life and works (Wu, He, Jiang, Dong & Vo, 2012) Among those people, academicians have increasingly interested in consuming the information through academic, social networks sites (ASNS): ResearchGate, Academia.edu. Google scholar and Linked in etc (Meishar-Tal, & Pieterse, 2017) These specialized academic, social network sites are gaining popularity among academicians by providing these services: online collaboration, sharing academic resources, or searching Information and scholarly communication (Chen, 2019, Lopes, Moro, Wives & De Oliveira, 2010, Segado-Boj, Díaz-Campo, Fernández-Gómez & ChaparroDomínguez, 2019; Lee, Oh, Dong, Wang & Burnett, 2019; Ebrahimzadeh, Sharifabadi, Kamran & Dalkir, 2020; Jeng, DesAutels, He & Li, 2017). The statement early motivates to investigate the activities of Myanmar academicians in Researchgate
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