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Knowledge Sharing Among Research Scholars Leveraging Academic Social Networking Sites For The Purpose Of Research Collaboration: A Study, Dr Kaladhar Arnepalli

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The key objective of this study is to investigate the awareness of research scholars towards Academic Social Networking Sites (ASNSs) like Academia.edu, Research Gate, Pen profile, LinkedIn, Google Scholar, etc. These sites opened a window for research scholars to know each other by setting up their interest profiles, uploading their scholarly works, and current trends in the subject area, precisely ASNSs paved the way for communication among research scholars in engineering and technology in particularly Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University-Kakinada (JNTUK). The author adopted a survey method using a simple indiscriminate sampling technique on a structured questionnaire to the research scholars …