Digital Identity and Promotion of Research Works - Case Study of Social Science Researchers at Taiwanese Institutions

This study aims to address the topic of digital identity and its building mechanisms in the digital space, with a focus on explaining the importance of this as a means of promoting scientific content at a time when it is necessary for researchers to have a digital fingerprint that reflects their scientific activities in a variety of digital spaces restricted by search engines. In the end, the nature and features of the Taiwanese social sciences scholars' identity are judged from one side and their effectiveness and activity from another side. This study is divided into a theoretical aspect which revolves around the concept of digital identity and an applied aspect on the social science researchers at Taiwanese universities and their activities on 4 platforms; Research Gate, Google Scholar, ORCID, and Twitter.