Abstract

Author(s): Mahalakshmi K R, Vinay M S, Vinay M S, Meghashree M

The study examines academics participation and contribution on Academic Social Networks (ASNs) by the India's Library and Information Science (LIS) faculties, with a special focus on ResearchGate. Study depicts how faculty data is stored and focuses on schools that grant LIS degrees. Information was gathered from their profiles, including publications, reads, views, citations, impact points, RGScore, follows and people they follow the faculties account of total publications, reads, views, citations, impact points, RGScore, were collected. Statistical software tool SPSS 21 was used to run Pearson collection was used to analyze if their exist correlation between reads, publications citations and RG Score. The study results show that state of Uttar Pradesh has the most universities, out of 82 universities, 13 universities had 56 faculty members provide LIS programmes. There are 42 faculty members spread across 11 universities in Karnataka. Notably, Karnataka (69.05%) and Jammu & Kashmir (80%) are the highest ResearchGate account users. Punjab is second in terms of publications with 311 publications and 5199 views, after Uttar Pradesh with 323 articles and 11,385 views. From the state of Karnataka 202 papers receive the greatest number of views (18,616). ResearchGate may have an impact on the community's diffusion of knowledge about academic subjects, as evidenced by the statistics, which shows a strong correlation between the number of publications, views, and citations. There is a strong relationship between the number of publications and citations (R2=0.578, p<0.01), hence more the number of publications, a greater chance that the article gets cited. Also, higher the number of the article is read in ResearchGate the higher the chances of it receiving citations (r=0.750, p<0.01).