ScholarMate ( zh, t=科研之友, p=kē yán zhī yǒu) is a professional research
social network
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platform. ScholarMate has over 8 million registered members and more than 100,000 research groups.
History
Proposed by Professor Jian Ma in 2006, launched in 2007. ScholarMate's goal is to make research easy by encouraging people to collaborate, communicate and share information on the platform.
Features
ScholarMate is a platform for sharing publications and disseminating research outputs. Using techniques of
big data
Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...
analytics, researchers can receive recommendations on relevant opportunities based on their profiles. Registered users can easily share their publications with their peers so as to create impact and increase citations using the research
social network
A social network is a social structure consisting of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), networks of Dyad (sociology), dyadic ties, and other Social relation, social interactions between actors. The social network per ...
platform.
ScholarMate provides personalized services for status updates, research profiles, publications, and funding opportunities etc., it allows researchers to create groups for their projects and courses. Over 100,000 research groups have been created for collaboration, communication and sharing of research resources. Partnership with
CrossRef, ScholarMate also provides services for
DOI registrations and updating citations.
ScholarMate Institutional Edition
ScholarMate Institutional Edition (SIE or referred to as Research Online") is a social institutional repository. Launched in 2007, SIE has been used to support the annual research assessment exercise and 2013/2014 Research Assessment Exercises in City University of Hong Kong.
Using standard
API
An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how to build ...
, ScholarMate Institutional Edition (SIE) can be integrated with
Current Research Information System A current research information system (CRIS) is a database or other information system to store, manage and exchange contextual metadata for the research activity funded by a research funder or conducted at a research-performing organisation (or agg ...
(CRIS) in research institutions.
Since 2009, Research Online has been used in the
National Natural Science Foundation of China
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC; ) is an organization directly affiliated to China's State Council for the management of the National Natural Science Fund.
History
NSFC was founded in February 1986 by theoretical chemist ...
(NSFC) to facilitate researchers in grant application, and progress/final reports. It has been integrated with the Internet-based Science Information System (ISIS) to provide reliable research outputs for project management in NSFC.
Since 2010, several government funding agencies have used the SIE for finding experts and for supporting the workflow of R&D project management, including Department of Science and Technology in Shaanxi, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Guangxi, and Hainan, etc.
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External links
Official website
Chinese social networking websites