Awareness and Use of Online Platforms for Research Visibility: A Survey of Academic Librarians in Universities in the South-East and South-South, Nigeria

Aduba, Doris Emetarom Awareness and Use of Online Platforms for Research Visibility: A Survey of Academic Librarians in Universities in the South-East and South-South, Nigeria. Informology, 2024, vol. 3, n. 1, pp. 91-110. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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The purpose of the study is to investigate the level of awareness and use of the various research visibility platforms by academic librarians in Nigeria. The study adopted an online survey method where the questionnaire was designed to collect data using Google form from 174 academic librarians in 16 universities in 8 states in the South-east and South-south regions of Nigeria. The study revealed that the academic librarians are aware of some research visibility platforms like Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Scopus, and just heard about the ORCID identifier. Effort needs to be made to create awareness of the platforms that are not familiar to the academic staff members. The study revealed that the majority of the academic librarians only created public profiles with Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and Scopus. The study also identified the benefits of having a public profile in the research visibility platforms. Findings will inform the academic community of the need to create a public profile in these research visibility platforms. These platforms will no doubt enhance the academic evaluation and give additional weight to publications that are accessible globally.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: university rankings, citation databases, web visibility, Google Scholar, ORCID, Scopus, Nigeria
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
D. Libraries as physical collections. > DD. Academic libraries.
Depositing user: Dr. Alireza Noruzi
Date deposited: 24 Feb 2025 21:48
Last modified: 24 Feb 2025 21:48
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/45987

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