ResearchGate: Disseminating, communicating, and measuring Scholarship?

R esearch G ate is a social network site for academics to create their own profiles, list their publications, and interact with each other. Like Academia.edu, it provides a new way for scholars to disseminate their work and hence potentially changes the dynamics of informal scholarly communication. This article assesses whether R esearch G ate usage and publication data broadly reflect existing academic hierarchies and whether individual...