Naslov
Croatian Scholarly Identity on Mendeley: The Case of the University of Zagreb

Autori
Machala Poplašen, Lovela ; Mitrović, Goranka ; Romić, Kristina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
The book of abstracts – PUBMET2019 / Stojanovski, Jadranka ; Mrša, Vladimir - Zadar : Sveučilište u Zadru, 2019, 67-68

ISBN
978-953-331-254-5

Skup
PUBMET 2019: The 6th conference on scholarly publishing in the context of open science

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 18.09.2019. - 20.09.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Recenziran

Ključne riječi
academic social sites ; CROSBI ; University of Zagreb ; altmetrics ; webometrics

Sažetak
Aim: Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNS) have become one of the most important platforms for communication, connection and collaboration among the scholarly community. The aim of this study is to investigate the Croatian scholarly identity on Mendeley and to explore how researchers use Mendeley as an ASNS. Methods: The Croatian Scientific Bibliography (CROSBI) covers scientific research and scientific publishing of Croatian researchers. A search was conducted in May 2019 in CROSBI selecting all eight scientific disciplines, the year 2018 and researchers with a unique research ID number in the Register of researchers of the Republic of Croatia from the University of Zagreb. In every research area CROSBI limits the results to the top 100 researchers according to their scientific productivity in 2018. Our sample consisted of 604 researchers (303 male and 301 female) in CROSBI divided by discipline: technical sciences (18.37%), biotechnical sciences (16.56%), social sciences (16.07%), humanities (14.57%), biomedicine and health (13.75%), natural sciences (10.26%), interdisciplinary sciences (8.27%), arts (2.15%). From this number (604), 37.9% researchers have profiles on Mendeley. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help organize an individual’s research, help them collaborate with other users and upload their personal scientific work. It can be used to analyse personal readership trends and to discover the latest research, all the while providing intriguing features for developing one's professional research network and generating scholarly influence (1). Results and Discussion: There are disciplinary differences in users and use of Mendeley ; the researchers from scientific discipline: technical sciences (58.55%), biomedicine and health (46.98%), and biotechnical sciences (46%) have most profiles on Mendeley, and the users from interdisciplinary sciences (16%) and humanities (13.63%) use Mendeley less. More than 57% (129) authors have an h-index (powered by Scopus) on their profile, and one biotechnical scientist has the highest h-index of 37, followed by another scientist from the biomedicine and health field with an h-index of 35. Like the previous studies, this research also concludes that there are different habits between disciplines, so further research is needed to investigate the existence of preferred types of information source that influence the selection of the reference manager (2, 3). For the year 2018, it was found that Mendeley readership counts were in strong positive correlation with citation counts in almost all disciplines, and this was confirmed by multiple studies in evaluating Mendeley reader counts and citation counts (4, 5). This might be use for scholarly impact assessment as early scientific impact indicators. Publications from technical science, and biomedicine and health which comprised most of the sample, averaging 70.94 papers per author in biomedicine and health, and 21.42 papers per author in technical science, were high in readership as well as in citation counts. This can indicate that, similar to citation, the readership density of publications varies per field and coverage. The Mendeley Readership is one measure of how researchers engage with research on Mendeley, calculating how many Mendeley users added a particular article into their personal library. Following other researchers on Mendeley can lead to collaboration and knowledge sharing opportunities (6). The profiles from the technical sciences discipline have a wider research network, averaging more than 1 following and between 1 and 2 followers per profile. Conclusion: The results for the population of researchers from the University of Zagreb on Mendeley show that the scientific areas, with the largest penetration of these technologies, are technical sciences, and biomedicine and health disciplines. Those profiles have a wider Mendeley research network and have high readership and citation counts. Scientists from other disciplines should consider positive benefits in having profiles on Mendeley and others ASNS. It is important for every researcher to manage their online scholarly identity and track the impact through their profile, increasing the visibility of their research and actively promoting their output, collaborating and enhancing networking opportunities. Limitations of this study: With time more and more scientists and researchers may join Mendeley causing various changes in data and giving different results. There are also filtering limitations in CROSBI (the selected sample consists of scientists who have submitted (not cited) the most papers in 2018, limited to first 100 scientists per discipline).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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