From sociability to creditability for academics

Social networking for academic exchanges, such as through sites like Researchgate.net, is gaining popularity among academics. This site offers many metrics (e.g. RG score and RG impact points) which have the potential to become universal research performance metrics. This paper presents an empirical survey of the top 150 researchers grants and their RG scores among 126 colleges of management in Taiwan. Our results show a strong correlation...