Research on the Function Design of Chinese and International Academic Social Networks Based on Research Hotspots

Abstract

[Purpose/significance] At present, scientific social network has become an important informal scientific communication tool for researchers. There are dozens of social networking tools for scientific research at home and abroad. Among them, such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu have tens of millions registered user. [Method/process] Firstly, this paper summarized five research focuses of this tool on the basis of the visual analysis of scientific research social networking academic papers. Then, based on the research of social networking functions and classification from AC Bullinger and SH Hallerstede, we extended twenty-three kinds of specific functions, and analyzed the Chinese and foreign representative social networks’ function design to explore their features, commonalities and differences. [Result/conclusion] The above analysis shows that the academic resources and expert information of scientific research social network are relatively abundant，the development of scientific research management tools is not enough, and the application of social labels and altmetrics indicators needs to be further expanded.

Keywords

• academic social network scientific communication scientific collaboration