Introduction: ReseachGate network provides an opportunity for scientific collaboration between researchers in process of knowledge production. This study investigated the situation of Iranian medical universities in ReseachGate.Methods: This applied and quantitative study used a scientometric method (altmetrics). Population of the study was 45 Iranian medical universities present in ReseachGate. Data collection was carried out from 27 April until 21 June 2015 by means of manual observation and recording information from ReseachGate, webometric and Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) websites. Spearman coefficient was used to test the correlation between variables. SPSS17 software was used for data analysis and Pajak software for drawing the related graphs.Results: Medical universities of Tehran, Shahid Behesti, Shiraz, Mashhad, Isfahan and Tabriz had the highest ReseachGate scores, respectively. United State of America, China and Iran respectively had the most view and download of Iranian medical documents (papers) in ReseachGate. Tehran University of Medical Sciences had a central role in co-authorship with majority of Iranian medical universities. Finally, there was a strong and positive correlation between ReseachGate score and ranking of medical universities in ISC and webometics.Conclusion: The results showed that the higher ranking universities are more active in ReseachGate. Tehran University of Medical Sciences is the most important node of co-authorship network. Geographical closeness is influential in co-authorship.

Purpose: This study aims to identify the motivations and information interactions of scholars in ResearchGate. Methodology: This research is an applied research that is done with a mixed-method approach (quantitative and qualitative). The study population consisted of all network users in the ResearchGate and quantitative sample checks the profile information of a 1200 researchers and in the qualitative sample interviews with 30 users. Findings: Results showed that recommendation by friends was the reason to join ResearchGate for most of the members. The most important characteristics of ResearchGate are the possibility to connect and interact in the national and international levels, and rapid publication of scientific results without peer review. Researchers’ main aim for using ResearchGate is promoting and showcasing their scientific activity. Moreover, Iranian users use ResearchGate to access information sources due to the existing barriers for access to resources. Researchers in medical physics and basic science are more active in comparison to other researchers. In total, more than 85 percent of users are in favor of using ResearchGate, and consider it helpful. Conclusion: The results show that in terms of most indicators researchers of medical physics have more interactions in ResearchGate compared to other majors, which implies the dominance of scholars of basic sciences.

Background and Aim: Web 2.0 capabilities in research fields have provided numerous conveniences for scholars. This, has consent people to interact and share their publications with other scholars across the world. The purpose of the research is to study the presence of Shahid Beheshti University Scholars in Research Gate.Method: Used approach in this paper is Scientometrics with Altmetrics method. For data gathering, Research Gate page Shahid Beheshti University was scrutinized.Resutls: Findings indicated that disciplines of Chemistry, Laser, Plasma and Physics had the outermost presence in Research Gate. In contrast, humanities had not any somber activities in Research Gate. Although, criteria for knowledge production and researchers interaction in sciences are not conclusive, it seems that interaction of humanity professors with the Web and its potentials could result in formation of new ideas for future research. It is concluded that in new era of education, web sites like: ACADEMIA, Research Gate, Mandalay would have an immense role in the development of research activities.Conlcusion: It should be noted that in the new era of research and education, science, social networking websites such as: Academia, Research Gate and Mandalay a key role in the training and development of their research. Establishing some workshops on using academic social networks can affect on knowledge of scholars, faculty member and students and direct their information seeking way for these people.

Introduction: Research Gate is one of the first social networks aims to foster collaboration and communication between researchers and their readers. The goal of the present research was to study the degree of presence of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences researchers in Research Gate.Methods: The current study was a survey research using altmetrics data. The data of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and its researchers were loaded through Research Gate social network in February 2015. Then, the data were analyzed based on indicators Research Gate score, total publications, total impact, loads, and views and descriptive statistics.Results: 947 of the researchers in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences had joined and loaded 2984 scientific works in Research Gate. In addition, School of Medicine was the most active school with 659 active researchers and 200 scientific works. Moreover, in terms of the number of researchers, Department of Pediatrics was known as the most active department with 237 researchers.Conclusion: Despite the great number of university researchers in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences which is one of the great universities of Iran, the results showed that the amount of researchers’ presence in Research Gate is relatively low. This may indicate the researchers’ limited use of Research Gate network facilities.

Purpose: Scientific exchanges and easy access to the required information are necessary for the scientific growth and dynamism of society. Scientific social networks as platforms for scientific exchanges can play important role in the development of scientific communities. Today, with the expansion of the applications of information and communication technology in everyday life, we are witnessing the formation of a new generation of Internet tools that have provided countless possibilities for mutual relations, negotiation, dialogue and, in general, two-way communication. Scientific social networks are an environment for the introduction and promotion of scientific activities and in fact, the more relevant information they can provide, the more they will be welcomed by experts, and the gathering of more experts in these networks means more scientific dynamism. The purpose of this study is to describe the experience of information science professionals about the relevance of information in ResearchGate scientific network. Method: This research is a qualitative research with a conceptual phenomenological design. The reason for choosing this method is because experiences of people requires a deep description of a certain phenomenon to a specific group of people and also one of the suitable fields for conducting research. Interpretive paradigm of phenomenological method is research in the field of information retrieval, which is important in information science and epistemology. Participants in present study are 22 experts and faculty members (9 males and 13 females) in the field of information science and epistemology in Iranian universities who are members of the research social science network. Participants were selected using purposeful sampling. Data was collected from semi-structured interview method, then coded and analyzed using Dickelman method. Finding: The results of the interviews analysis led to the extraction 551 initial code and four categories: Relevance of the document, relevance of the successor to the document, the relevance of the requests and questions, and the lack of relevance feedback. Conclusion: The results emphasize showed that Researchgate network plays an important role in meeting information needs of users. The network is not an information system, a forum for meeting scientific needs and promoting science.

Purpose: Accurate scientific evaluation of researchers by ResearchGate network is still ambiguous. This systematic study seeks to shed some light on this issue.Methods: The study was conducted with a systematic review of the previous studies (articles or reports). The analysis of documents was performed with a targeted keyword search in the reputable Google Scholar, Emerald, and PubMed databases (without limit). Titles and abstracts (if necessary, full texts) of the number of 582 documents (Persian, English, and Spanish) were retrieved (1-10 April 2021) and studied. Then, by removing duplicate or irrelevant data, 57 independent studies were selected for meeting the main research problem of this systematic review (using the PRISMA statement). For drawing diagrams, Excel software was used.Findings: Among 57 previous independent studies  retrieved by systematic review, 30 ones, had a negative attitude towards the ResearchGate.  27 studies saw with positive approach from standpoint the concepts of "authentic measuring instrument", " presence of prominent scientists such as Nobel Prize recipients", "valid scientific content", and "having a significant relationship with the academic ranking criteria", and "compliance with the Hirsch indicator", that was identified by documentary analysis based on PRISMA statement. Studies with a positive assessment of the ResearchGate dealt with developing countries, and with a small investigated research community. Therefore, it is appropriate to act cautiously when evaluating researchers with the ResearchGate network.Originality: No similar systematic review to evaluate the ResearchGate network from the standpoint of a scientific suitable evaluation tool, has been done so far.

Purpose: ResearchGate and LinkedIn are considered as professional research social networks, respectively, with purposes such as scientific communication, promoting the visibility of scientific and technological works, altmetrics studies, being up-to-date with the profession, and are also for job search. However, considering the changes and developments that have taken place in the last decade, we have seen a significant increase in patents registered by Iranians, especially by participation of Iranian women, in international databases such as the USPTO, which indicates the active presence of Iranian inventor women in various technological fields. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to analyze the Iranian inventor women’s scientific presence in scientific-social network LinkedIn and ResearchGate. Methodology: This applied research was conducted quantitatively, utilizing the library method and social network analysis in the field of scientometrics, along with the altimetric approach. The statistical research population is, 211 Iranian inventor women who had a patent in the USPTO database in the period of 1971–2021. Also, using the purposive sampling method, a sample of 110 inventors (52. 1%) who were members of two social-scientific networks, LinkedIn and ResearchGate, between August 30, 2022, and September 19, 2022, was selected. To collect the research required data, first, in the advanced search section of the USPTO database, three commands "ICN/IR, " "ACN/IR" and "AACO/IR" were searched. With these three commands, all patents whose country code of inventor or owner was "IR" were retrieved,but because of the similarity between some countries in this database, such as Ireland's country (Maloney,Ian (Dublin, IR)), many patents that were retrieved were not related to Iran. To solve this problem, the keyword of geographic location was used and three commands "IC/City, " "AC/City" and "AACI/City" were also searched. Here, city is referred to the provincial centers of Iran (for example, "IC/Tehran", "AC/Tehran" and "AACI/Tehran"). Then, all the data were entered into the Excel file. After merging and refining the data, we extracted the names of 211 Iranian inventor women. This information was based on 184 title patents registered in the USPTO database from 1971 to 2021, which involved at least one Iranian woman inventor. Then, each of these names was searched in two social-scientific networks, LinkedIn and ResearchGate, between 2022/08/30 and 2022/09/19. After that, the required data were collected by referring to the profile of each inventor using a checklist. Finally, the data were analyzed using Excel and Spss software. Findings: More than half of the Iranian inventor women (110 people) were scientific social network members, LinkedIn and ResearchGate. From the profile personal information viewpoint, most of them had an informal personal photo, no biography and unclear language. Most of them were Ph. D. and very few had their contact information listed in their profiles. Also, 42. 7% of them mentioned their patents on LinkedIn and 48. 2% on ResearchGate. Qudsi Mohammadi Ziarani, with 453 works on ResearchGate and 102 on LinkedIn, has contributed the most compared with other Iranian inventor women in terms of presenting publications and research articles. Additionally, in terms of the new research index interest score and other indices available in ResearchGate, Fatemeh Atyabi has the largest share compared to others, with a research interest score of 5490 and 10374 citations, h-index of 56 and 84801 readings. Conclusion: This study results indicate that the Iranian inventor women presence importance is in introducing themselves, communication, and scientific research collaboration with colleagues. Even though scientific-social networks LinkedIn and ResearchGate provide a suitable platform for more communication and interactions between users and researchers, inventors, employers, etc., but most Iranian inventor women have not used the maximum facilities and capabilities provided in these networks. Inventors can improve their personal page rank in Google results by completing their profile information in these networks and adding more details to it. They can also attract more researchers and audiences to their scientific and technological work by specifying different ways of communication in their profile. In addition, by publicly presenting their profile, inventors can increase the visibility of their work, leading to more citations and opportunities to commercialize scientific and technological products. This can serve as a pathway for entering the business world and marketing scientific products.