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Scientific social networks


Academia.edu

Successful academic social network with more than 14 million users.

It aims to connect researchers with the same interests, grouping them by institutions, departments and topics of interest. It also provides access to full texts, specialised mailing lists and job offers.

Researchers can create a web page about their research, post papers, search for colleagues and acquaintances via Facebook, LinkedIn, Gmail and follow the work of other researchers.

Alerts can be activated for news on subjects or journals of interest.

ResearchGate

A social network that allows the creation of a profile and access to interest groups, forums and related literature.

It has a semantic search engine for scientific journal articles with more than 35 million records, browses internal and external research resources from the main databases (PubMed, CiteSeer, arWiv).

It has more than 5 million members (including 30 Nobel Laureates) from over 190 countries.

Kudos

Service that helps maximise the reach and impact of scientific articles.

It provides tools to explain a paper in simple language and enrich it with links to related materials.

It offers different metrics related to publications: page views, citations, full-text downloads and altmetrics.