_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: Email: khinmarshwe.lis@gmail.com; Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences 16(2): 1-9, 2022; Article no.ARJASS.83835 ISSN: 2456-4761 Use of Academic Social Networks among Myanmar Academicians Khin Mar Shwe a* a School of Information Management, Wuhan University, Hubei, China. Author’s contribution The sole author designed, analysed, interpreted and prepared the manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/ARJASS/2022/v16i230279 Open Peer Review History: This journal follows the Advanced Open Peer Review policy. Identity of the Reviewers, Editor(s) and additional Reviewers, peer review comments, different versions of the manuscript, comments of the editors, etc are available here: https://www.sdiarticle5.com/review-history/83835 Received 20 November 2021 Accepted 26 January 2022 Published 27 January 2022 ABSTRACT This study investigates to know Myanmar academicians’ use of academic social networks, with especially focus on the Google scholar, Academia.edu and Researchgate. Adopting the descriptive survey design, the study used web based questionnaires as research instrument and were distributed among academicians in Arts and Science Universities in Myanmar. In total, 500 academicians filled in questionnaire were received back. The finding reveals that Myanmar academicians have knowledge of academic social networks. Google scholar is the most common used academic social network among Myanmar academicians. Academicians want to gain more new research area and researchers, but also more communicate with academic social network members for their academic works by joining academic social networks. Furthermore, academicians knew how to use academic social networks for their academic life. Academic social networks are recognized as important one for academicians and also academic social networks should be put into better research tool services. Keywords: Academic social networks; google scholar; academia.edu; researchgate; Myanmar. 1. INTRODUCTION With the growing of social platform, social networks have been popularity in many scholars. Interesting the numbers of users participated in social networks, social networks are serviced to share information and to seek information; and to participate in professional interaction, discussions, and exchanges of questions and answers with other users [1]. According to Gruzd [2], non-academic social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook are much more popular; Original Research Article