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                                    [title] => ResearchGate indicators and their relationship with Scopus metrics: Evidence from a medical university in Iran
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                                            [0] => Ghalavand, Hossein
                                            [1] => Amani-Beni, Fatemeh
                                            [2] => Alvannasari, Yosra
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                                            [0] => academic social networks
                                            [1] => scientometrics
                                            [2] => ResearchGate
                                            [3] => Scopus
                                            [4] => altmetrics
                                            [5] => h-index
                                            [6] => g-index
                                            [7] => scholarly communication
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                                    [description] => Objectives: Academic social networking platforms have introduced new dimensions to scholarly communication and research visibility. ResearchGate provided alternative metrics reflecting online engagement, while Scopus offers standardized citation-based indicators. This study aimed to examine the relationship between ResearchGate indicators and Scopus metrics among faculty members of Abadan University of Medical Sciences.
Methodology: This descriptive-analytical scientometric study included 122 faculty members of Abadan University of Medical Sciences. The data were collected using a structured checklist from the ResearchGate and Scopus databases. The following variables were included in the study: publication count, citations, h-index, and g-index (Scopus), as well as ResearchGate indicators such as reads, citations, followers, following, questions, answers, and h-index. The collected data were then subjected to analysis using SPSS version 21, which entailed the implementation of descriptive statistics and a Spearman’s correlation test.
Results: Among the participants, 67.69% had 1–10 indexed publications, and 81.15% had active ResearchGate profiles. A total of 69.66% of the sample had an h-index below 5, while 25.40% had zero values for both h-index and g-index. Correlation analysis revealed that citation-based ResearchGate indicators exhibited comparatively robust associations with Scopus metrics, particularly between ResearchGate h-index and Scopus h-index. Conversely, interaction-based indicators demonstrated either weak or negligible correlations.
Conclusion: ResearchGate citation-related indicators show limited to moderate associations with Scopus metrics, while interaction-based metrics demonstrate weak relationships. These findings suggest that ResearchGate indicators may complement, but do not replace, standardized citation-based measures in research evaluation.
                                    [publisher] => Pro-Metrics
                                    [date] => 2026-07-15
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                                            [0] => https://awari.pro-metrics.org/index.php/a/article/view/117
                                            [1] => 10.47909/awari.1173
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                                    [source] => Array
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                                            [0] => AWARI; Vol. 7 No. 2 (2026): AWARI; 1-8
                                            [1] => 2675-522X
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                                    [language] => eng
                                    [relation] => https://awari.pro-metrics.org/index.php/a/article/view/117/118
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                                            [0] => Copyright (c) 2026 Hossein Ghalavand, Fatemeh Amani-Beni, Yosra Alvannasari
                                            [1] => https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
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