Motivating scholars’ responses in academic social networking sites: An empirical study on ResearchGate Q&A behavior
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Highlights：
• Focused on the statements embedded in questions and answers, the study strives to explore the precursors that motivate scholars to give a response.
• The result revealed a threshold effect that when the length of question description is over circa 150 words, scholars would quickly lose their interests and thus not read the description.
• Questions including positive action-oriented statements, are more likely to entice subsequent reads from other scholars.
• Scholars prefer to recommend an answer with positive procedural statements or negative action-oriented statements.
摘要
•Focused on the statements embedded in questions and answers, the study strives to explore the precursors that motivate scholars to give a response.•The result revealed a threshold effect that when the length of question description is over circa 150 words, scholars would quickly lose their interests and thus not read the description.•Questions including positive action-oriented statements, are more likely to entice subsequent reads from other scholars.•Scholars prefer to recommend an answer with positive procedural statements or negative action-oriented statements.
论文关键词：Social Q&A,ResearchGate,Library and information science
论文评审过程：Received 21 February 2019, Revised 6 July 2019, Accepted 7 July 2019, Available online 18 July 2019, Version of Record 5 September 2019.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2019.102082
