Libraries at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Abstract
ResearchGate is an Academic Social Networking (ASN) Site that focuses on sharing the publications, tracking the number of reads, recommendation, citations metrics about the researcher work. With over 15 million members, ResearchGate is place researcher can create a profile and share them research. ResearchGate is “built for scientists/social scientist” Researcher/scientist /social scientist can share the research, data, background, possible to add CV. follow other researchers and can even endorse the skills. This study found that 38 percentages of the respondents have RG score is between 11-15, 31 percentages of the social scientist RG score between 6-10. 43 percentage of the social scientist are having number of followers between 101-150 researchers, 22 percentages of the respondents are having 51-100 followers. 33 percentages of the respondents have 11-15 coauthors verified profile, followed 27 percentage of the social scientist have 5-10 coauthors verified profile. 93 percentages (176) of the respondents from the publications followed by 69 percentage followers and 58 percentage answers.