Leveraging social networks for online scientists

Do you want to know whether the social networks used by researchers can be usefully integrated into the scope of your monitoring? To do so, you need to identify their benefits and limitations for scientific research.

The notion of scientific exchange and sociability has often been an important dimension of research, from ancient scholarly communities to today's socionumeric networks.

This fact sheet will determine how social networks for scientists can be used in a monitoring approach, by answering several questions:

• How involved are the research players?

• What is the emerging social networking landscape?

• How do researchers use social networks?

• What content do social networks convey?