Abstract

MIGUEL, Sandra; GONZALEZ, Claudia M.  and  ORTIZ-JAUREGUIZAR, Edgardo. Preferences of researchers and institutional/disciplinary practices in the dissemination and socialisation of research results. Inf. cult. soc. [online]. 2018, n.38, pp.53-76. ISSN 1514-8327.

The objective of this work is to contribute to the knowledge of the practices and preferences of university researchers when they have to disseminate and socialize their publications in open access institutional repositories and academic social networks. This study is based on the premise that this phenomenon is influenced both by discipline and by institutional belonging. With a bibliometric-scientometric approach, the presence of the academic community and the volume and temporal coverage of its production deposited in institutional repositories (RIS) and the academic social network ResearchGate (RG) are studied. The case of university researchers from three faculties of an Argentine public university is studied, characterizing the population according to gender, age group, academic degree, and category formalized within the research system. It is concluded that there is a higher presence of the academic community in the repositories than in the social network, although the average of documents per university researcher is higher in the latter. The community of the faculties of Exact Sciences and Natural Sciences have a high presence in RG, unlike those in Humanities and Social Sciences. There are more women than men in the different platforms, in contrast to what happens with the average number of documents per university researcher, which is also higher the higher the age, the researcher category, and the academic degree achieved. Temporary coverage and current production are higher in RG than in the RIS, in addition to a relationship between the age of the documents and the age group of the population.

Keywords : Institutional repositories; Academic social networks; ResearchGate; Bibliometrics; Altmetrics.

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