Social networks as an approach to the enhancement of collaboration among scientists

International Journal of Web Based Communities

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 577-592

  Lackes, Richard ^a   Siepermann, Markus ^a   Frank, Erik ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Collaborative peer review; Research community; Social networking; Social tagging; Web 2.0.

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN; WEB SERVICES;

ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENT; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; ON-LINE COLLABORATIONS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PEER REVIEW; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL TAGGING; WEB 2.0;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 78651565007     PISSN: 14778394     EISSN: 17418216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWBC.2009.028091     Document Type: Article

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