3. Leveraging scientists' social networking sites for your business intelligence

What types of information can you tap into, and what monitoring objectives can you set using social networks?

Social networks can be used to :

• identify researchers, experts and specialists by building and displaying an online digital identity, and establishing address books (online CVs, profiles, research fields, indicators, networks of contacts, etc.);

• detect networks of scientific players: researchers, specific research fronts, laboratories, organizations and their interrelationships;

• finding shared scientific information :

  • lists of publications,

  • new publications (notices of publication or distribution of books, articles, conference papers),

  • ...