From sociability to creditability for academics

Social networking for academic exchanges, such as through sites like Researchgate.net, is gaining popularity among academics. This site offers many metrics (e.g. RG score and RG impact points) which have the potential to become universal research performance metrics. This paper presents an empirical...

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Published in:Computers in human behavior 2017-10, Vol.75, p.975-984
Main Authors: Kuo, Tsuang, Tsai, Gwo Yang, Jim Wu, Yen-Chun, Alhalabi, Wadee
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colleges & universities
Empirical analysis
Grants
Information seeking behavior
Performance measurement
Research grants
Research performance
ResearchGate
Social media
Social networks
Taiwan
Websites
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Summary:Social networking for academic exchanges, such as through sites like Researchgate.net, is gaining popularity among academics. This site offers many metrics (e.g. RG score and RG impact points) which have the potential to become universal research performance metrics. This paper presents an empirical survey of the top 150 researchers’ grants and their RG scores among 126 colleges of management in Taiwan. Our results show a strong correlation between the research grants and RG scores if the analysis is based on the college as a whole. However, the relationship becomes insignificant for individual researchers. In addition, colleges with the AACSB accreditation outperform AACSB member schools and non-member schools in terms of their research grants and sharing research outputs on ResearchGate. The authors conclude that metrics used on ResearchGate have the potential to become formal research performance evaluation tools. However, this time has not come yet, at least based on the experience of Taiwan. •A strong correlation exists between the grants and RG scores at the college level.•The relationship becomes insignificant for individual researchers.•The AACSB-accredited group outperforms non-AACSB-accredited group.
ISSN:0747-5632
1873-7692
DOI:10.1016/j.chb.2016.07.044