[Purpose/significance] Academic social network is an important platform for users to form academic social network influence and carry out knowledge exchange. The research on the formation of university users’academic social network influence on the one hand can help them improve their academic social network influence through proper use of the platform, on the other hand, it can help academic social network platform optimize their influence evaluation system.[Method/process] Taking ResearchGate(RG) as an example, this paper collects user data from six top universities in China and America, subdivides usersintohigh, medium and low influence levels according to their RG Score, and then makes a comparative analysis on the formation of Chinese and American users’influence according to the composition of their RG Score.[Result/conclusion] The results show that most users of Chinese and American universities have low influence and their influence mainly comes from publications, which reflects that they do not make full use of the functions of RG.Sharing numbers of publications or making full use of the functions of the platform helps users form high influence. The sources of the middle influence users are more diversified compared to high influence users, but their use of platform functions is insufficient. Besides limited publications and Q&A interactions, the low influence users also rely on interpersonal relationships to accumulate certain influence.
Yan, Weiwei, Xie, Shunxin, Wang, Qingye
. Research on the Differencesin the Formation of Academic Social Network Users Influence:Basedon the Comparison of RG Score between Chinese and American University Users[J]. Information and Documentation Services, 2021
, 42(6)
: 54
-62
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DOI: 10.12154/j.qbzlgz.2021.06.006
