Social Networks as an Alternative Environment for the Implementation of Scientific Communication

Alina Petrushka, Maria Komova, Ivan Demydov
2019 International Workshop on Control, Optimisation and Analytical Processing of Social Networks  
The article realizes the goal of identifying the potential of social networks to ensure the completeness of the implementation of scientific communication. For this purpose, identification of information resources for scientific communication has been conducted. Grouping and classification of social scientific networks, analysis of the functional assignment of resources and their ranking for the coverage of services were carried out. Social scientific networks were analyzed on the subject of
more » ... pleteness of providing various aspects of scientific activity: satisfaction of information needs of a scientist, establishment of scientific communication, promotion of scientific results, library and bibliographic support of the scientific activity and evaluation of scientific results. Comparison of the social networks' status on various indicators allows identifying the following patterns: according to the coverage of services social networks reveal a small spread of indicators; gradation of similar resources by the frequency of mentions in the search results showed a significant spread of indicators; ResearchGate is the only social scientific network that retains the dominant position in both graduation rates.
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