Which Armenian Higher Education Institutions Are Visible on ResearchGate? ()
ABSTRACT
In the digital era, technological transformations
and rapid development of internet platforms create immense possibilities for
the academic community and students to get knowledge, transfer, disseminate,
generate new ideas and establish new collaborations. Different platforms of
knowledge accumulation and dissemination are rapidly being developed and
improved in the internet. Network academic
communities are established that join professionals having the same interests
and facilitate the process of exchange of research products and deliverables. In this regard, one of the well
known platforms is ResearchGate. Considering the above mentioned, the author
of the article aims at exploring the level of representation of Armenian higher
education institutions at ResearchGate network. The Article also touches upon
the remarks among academic community regarding RG Score reputation index
developed by ResearchGate. Multiplicative effect interconnected to the activeness of representatives of higher education
institutions in such platforms was described. As a result of the current
research, it was drawn out that Armenian universities are not presented
sufficiently at ResearchGate platform. Moreover, majority of Armenian higher
education institutions do not have an institutional profile in the presented
platform. Possible reasons of weak representation were analyzed.
Share and Cite:
Atoyan, V. (2020) Which Armenian Higher Education Institutions Are Visible on ResearchGate?.
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
8, 243-251. doi:
10.4236/jss.2020.86021.