Scholarly Activity refers to the posting of research outputs in online tools that are used by academic scholars. These tools include Academic Identifiers and scholarly networking sites.

Scholarly networking tools are used to build communities of scholars with similar research interests, facilitating:

• Access to publications and research outputs
• Connecting and collaborating with colleagues, peers, co-authors, and specialists in your area of research
• Tracking who has been downloading, reading and citing your work
• Hosting a forum for asking questions, getting answers, and finding solutions to research problems

Scholarly Networking Tools:

These tools are primarily used for scholarly networking. ​

Research networks with bibliographic management tools:

Sharing libraries helps to extend your research networks and raise the visibility of publications that you have compiled for your research.

The table below compares these four widely used scholarly networking tools:



				
Features	ResearchGate	Academia	Mendeley	Zotero
Create/upload a CV
Share research publications
Share research data
Track Citations			Scopus counts
View Analytics (e.g. page views, downloads)
Collaboration tools	Projects		Groups	Groups
Follow other researchers comments on your papers
Review papers by other researchers
Ask and answer questions
Recommend papers to others				Groups
Follow other people's publications	Follow publications	Bookmark papers	Build reference library + bibliography manager	Build reference library + bibliography manager
Connect to other social networks
Job boards