Strategic publishing guidelines for authors > Profile management > Academic social networks | Griffith University

"The academic community has embraced the opportunities offered by online social networking. A number of dedicated academic networking sites/services have emerged in recent years.

Each of these scholarly publication services has a slightly different focus: Mendeley, with both online and desktop versions, works principally as a reference management system. Academia.edu promotes an author’s articles to external resources. ResearchGate has a focus on collaboration, discovery and discussion. Kudos promotes the ability for authors to add an explanation about a publication, to then share a link to the publication via Twitter and/or Facebook, and to view the subsequent impact (via Kudos-generated metrics). Some aspects for consideration before putting the effort into one- or more- of these services include:..."