Guest Post, Jose Luis Ortega - Academic Social Networks: Collaborative Environments or Diogenes Clubs? - The Scholarly Kitchen

"Where researchers do differ from other social media users is the tendency or need to share publications. The study reported here shows that the ability to share full text publications within a platform is closely related to the success of a platform. Document sharing systems, such as ResearchGate and Academia.edu, stand out as the most successful spaces for both content generation and social networking, because they support easy sharing of full text documents, the primary academic output for a researcher, and thus the main “asset” for scholarly networking."