Research on pathways of expert finding on academic social networking sites

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Highlights：

• In the academic context, focused on the peer seeking behavior in pages, movements and pathways from experimental situation.

• Three types for pathways are identified by cluster analysis, combined with questionnaires and interviews.

• The search intensions have an impact on the different pathways.

• Implications for the interface design of ASNS are proposed based on the characteristics of searching process.

摘要

•In the academic context, focused on the peer seeking behavior in pages, movements and pathways from experimental situation.•Three types for pathways are identified by cluster analysis, combined with questionnaires and interviews.•The search intensions have an impact on the different pathways.•Implications for the interface design of ASNS are proposed based on the characteristics of searching process.

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论文评审过程：Received 5 March 2020, Revised 8 December 2020, Accepted 13 December 2020, Available online 24 December 2020, Version of Record 24 December 2020.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2020.102475