Purpose: One of the issues that scientific communities in universities and higher education centers are seriously facing is knowledge sharing, which plays an essential role in the development of academic social capital. One of the influential variables in knowledge sharing is cyber ethics and its components.
Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the Factors affecting knowledge sharing with an emphasis on cyber ethics. Method: The current research was conducted with a quantitative approach and a survey technique. Its statistical population includes 5589 graduate students of Tabriz University, and 650 people have been selected as the sample size using proportional stratified sampling. The data was collected through a questionnaire and analyzed using Spss software.
Findings: The research findings indicate that there is a positive and significant correlation between cyber ethics and its dimensions with knowledge sharing and its dimensions. The results of the Pearson test show that there is a positive and significant correlation between the variables of social trust, organizational culture, religiosity and knowledge sharing. The results of the regression analysis showed that 29% of the variance of knowledge sharing is explained by the variables of social trust, organizational culture and cyber ethics.
Results: Therefore, based on the findings of this research, it is suggested that the university provides suitable platforms for tacit and explicit knowledge sharing. In this regard, the research and technology department of the university should provide online knowledge sharing platforms with the information resources of graduate students and professors.