The last decade was marked by the intensification of the process of dissemination and integration of Internet communication practices. The science field is being transformed under the influence of practices determined by the new frame of social interaction - according to the terminology of Barry Wellman and Lee Rainey - of the social operating system (Social OS). The specificity of the “tribe of scientists”, especially the network nature of the interaction, secured a rapid transition to new communication tools which launched the process of digitization of science and greatly expanded both potential geographical scope and intensity of communication. The currently existing internet services for scientists including specialized social networks, are complex network structures that consist of several types of actors and actants ranging from researchers and organizations to events and scientific texts. In such conditions, social networks has become a source of so-called “digital fingerprints” which mean the data ch