The Role of Social Media in Scholarly Collaboration: An Enabler of International Research Team’s Activation?

IF 3 4区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Journal of Global Information Technology Management Pub Date : 2020-09-10 DOI:10.1080/1097198x.2020.1817684

A. Gorska, P. Korzyński, G. Mazurek, F. Pucciarelli

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of social media (SM) in supporting international research. The study is based on a sample of 797 scholars who published their papers in the Financial Times Top 45 management journals in the years 2013–2015. Data were collected through observations conducted mainly on SM and university sites and analyzed by using negative binomial regression. It was found that the international collaboration of the research team is positively associated with the presence of the first author on Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNSs) as ResearchGate and Academia.edu. Despite the fact that juniors are more likely to be present in SM platforms, the senior position of the first author was positively associated with the international collaboration, which can be explained by the fact that senior academics have accumulated more extensive bridging social capital. The identified relationship indicates that professional SM serves as a tool to establish a digital footprint not only in business but also in academia. As well as the need for further investigation of the role and potential of ASNSs to foster newer and more efficient forms of international research collaboration.

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社交媒体在学术合作中的作用:国际研究团队激活的推动者?

本文的目的是研究社交媒体(SM)在支持国际研究中的作用。这项研究基于2013年至2015年期间在英国《金融时报》排名前45位的管理学期刊上发表论文的797名学者的样本。数据主要通过SM和大学站点的观察收集，并使用负二项回归进行分析。研究小组的国际合作与第一作者在学术社交网站(ASNSs)如ResearchGate和Academia.edu上的出现呈正相关。尽管在SM平台中，晚辈出现的可能性更大，但第一作者的高级职位与国际合作呈正相关，这可以解释为高级学者积累了更广泛的桥梁社会资本。确定的关系表明，专业SM不仅在商业领域，而且在学术界都是建立数字足迹的工具。此外，还需要进一步研究asns的作用和潜力，以促进更新和更有效的国际研究合作形式。

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Journal of Global Information Technology Management INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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4.10

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10.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Global Information Technology Management (JGITM) is a refereed international journal that is supported by Global IT scholars from all over the world. JGITM publishes articles related to all aspects of the application of information technology for international business. The journal also considers a variety of methodological approaches and encourages manuscript submissions from authors all over the world, both from academia and industry. In addition, the journal will also include reviews of MIS books that have bearing on global aspects. Practitioner input will be specifically solicited from time-to-time in the form of invited columns or interviews. Besides quality work, at a minimum each submitted article should have the following three components: an MIS (Management Information Systems) topic, an international orientation (e.g., cross cultural studies or strong international implications), and evidence (e.g., survey data, case studies, secondary data, etc.). Articles in the Journal of Global Information Technology Management include, but are not limited to: -Cross-cultural IS studies -Frameworks/models for global information systems (GIS) -Development, evaluation and management of GIS -Information Resource Management -Electronic Commerce -Privacy & Security -Societal impacts of IT in developing countries -IT and Economic Development -IT Diffusion in developing countries -IT in Health Care -IT human resource issues -DSS/EIS/ES in international settings -Organizational and management structures for GIS -Transborder data flow issues -Supply Chain Management -Distributed global databases and networks -Cultural and societal impacts -Comparative studies of nations -Applications and case studies