Rejuvenation of online research interactive fora during COVID-19

Natarajan Gajendran; V Shanthi; M Aalelai Vendhan

doi:10.17485/IJST/v13i47.2230

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Rejuvenation of online research interactive fora during COVID-19

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/IJST/v13i47.2230

Year: 2020, Volume: 13, Issue: 47, Pages: 4603-4605

Original Article

Rejuvenation of online research interactive fora during COVID-19

Natarajan Gajendran¹, V Shanthi², M Aalelai Vendhan^3,^4*

¹CEO, Scholarly Needs
²CFO, Scholarly Needs
³CTO, Scholarly Needs
⁴M.Tech. Student, Microelectronics, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

*Corresponding Author
Email: [email protected]

Received Date:12 December 2020, Accepted Date:21 December 2020, Published Date:28 December 2020

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Objective: To analyse the usefulness of various interactive fora in sharing the scientific updates among researchers. Methodology: Popular research fora viz. ResearchGate, Academia, Mendeley, Kudos and Publons were considered. A bird’s eye view on emerging benefits of such fora and their dependability are critically analysed using secondary data. It includes published articles and records. Findings: The analysis shows that these interactive fora help in breaking the geographical, economical and institutional barriers and are able to offer sharing of research knowledge among peer groups. However, these online fora also have their own demerits on reliability of the research interactive outcome. Our analysis clearly shows that if these bottlenecks are removed, the interactive fora can bring paradigm shifts in global research output to the next level. Novelty: With this effect, the authors not only identified the problems cropping in the existing research interactive fora but also put forward an improved interactive platform “Scholarly Needs” by which the motivated research scholars can be identified for their original contribution, ranked and showcased for their talent.

Keywords: Research forum; Scholarly Needs; ResearchGate; Academia; Mendeley; Publons; Kudos

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