Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
PLoS One. 2018 Oct 5;13(10):e0204945. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0204945. eCollection 2018.
Based on a survey, the following study investigates opinions and also usage patterns relating to the ResearchGate social networking site for scientists and researchers. The survey consisted of 19 questions and was conducted online with 695 scientists from the disciplines of physics, biology, medicine, and neuroscience. Amongst other issues, the research questions concerned how much time and effort the interviewees expended on ResearchGate, what added value they perceived in using the site, the extent to which social aspects influence use, how participants planned to use the platform in future, and what role ResearchGate's own metric, the RG score, played for the scientists. In addition, we discuss which of the factors of age, sex, origin, and scientific discipline have a decisive influence on the responses of the interviewees and which are of no statistical significance The results clearly show that the origin of the participants is frequently decisive, but that the remaining factors also have a considerable influence on the responses for more than 25% of the questions.
基于一项调查，本研究调查了与科研人员社交网络平台 ResearchGate 相关的意见和使用模式。该调查由 19 个问题组成，采用在线方式对来自物理学、生物学、医学和神经科学领域的 695 名科学家进行了调查。除其他问题外，研究问题还涉及受访者在 ResearchGate 上花费的时间和精力、他们在使用该网站时认为的附加值、社交因素对使用的影响程度、参与者计划如何在未来使用该平台以及 ResearchGate 自身的指标 RG 分数对科学家的作用。此外，我们还讨论了年龄、性别、出身和科学学科等因素中哪些对受访者的回答有决定性影响，哪些则没有统计学意义。结果清楚地表明，参与者的出身经常是决定性的，但其余因素对超过 25%的问题的回答也有相当大的影响。
