Which US and European Higher Education Institutions are visible in ResearchGate and what affects their RG score?
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Highlights：
• A large-scale investigation of the visibility in ResearchGate of US and European Higher Education Institutions.
• Institutional visibility in ResearchGate goes is strongly associated with the number of academic staff.
• Being present in Web of Science is almost a sufficient condition for having an institutional profile in ResearchGate.
• For HEIs in the Web of Science, the RG Score is more correlated with number of publications than with the citation impact.
• The ResearchGate Score should not be used for comparing institutions by research quality.
摘要
•A large-scale investigation of the visibility in ResearchGate of US and European Higher Education Institutions.•Institutional visibility in ResearchGate goes is strongly associated with the number of academic staff.•Being present in Web of Science is almost a sufficient condition for having an institutional profile in ResearchGate.•For HEIs in the Web of Science, the RG Score is more correlated with number of publications than with the citation impact.•The ResearchGate Score should not be used for comparing institutions by research quality.
论文关键词：ResearchGate score,Institutional profiles,Higher education institutions,Altmetrics
论文评审过程：Received 27 March 2018, Revised 2 July 2018, Accepted 2 July 2018, Available online 19 July 2018, Version of Record 19 July 2018.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.07.001
