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What is ResearchGate used for?
ResearchGate is the professional network for scientists and researchers. We help researchers connect and make it easy for them to share and access scientific output, knowledge, and expertise. ResearchGate is an external website, used by academics to share journals publications and papers. It is primarily used as a social networking site for researchers to find collaborators and ask questions. However students can also use this site to access the resources provided. ResearchGate was developed by scientists to make collaboration, sharing, and communication between researchers easier. We respect the intellectual property rights of others and ask that you do the same. ResearchGate lets you: Upload public copies of your full-texts to publication pages. They observed that ResearchGate found statistically significantly fewer citations than did Google Scholar, but more than both Scopus and Web of Science. Google Scholar always showed more citations for each individual journal than ResearchGate, though ResearchGate showed more citations than both WoS and Scopus.
Is ResearchGate free?
Is there a cost? Creating an account on ResearchGate is free. All ResearchGate members will be able to access content from the participating open access journals. ResearchGate is not a journal. It is simply an academic social network, and any articles on it should be cited using their own citation information, with no mention of ResearchGate. ResearchGate makes it easy for you to add your publications as well as your unpublished work to your profile. Adding publications to your ResearchGate profile From any page in Research Gate, click on the Add new button in the top right corner. Select Publication from the options that appear to add an article, book, chapter, etc. Select the type of publication you are adding. For most (around 60%) of our sample of members, their Publications is the only component present; very few members have a score (for publications alone) greater than 60 no matter how many articles they have published. A score of around 40 earns the approbation ‘Your score is higher than 97.5% of ResearchGate members’.
Who viewed ResearchGate?
To see them: Log in to your account https://www.researchgate.net/login. Visit the Stats tab on your profile and click on the Reads tab. If you have more than two readers, then under People who read your publications click on View more researchers. ResearchGate is not a publisher and does not accept articles or papers for publication. Rather, members can track their publications, store private copies, and make their published or unpublished work publicly available on ResearchGate – if they have the rights to do so. Many researchers and scientists will post PDFs of their articles on ResearchGate, so it is a source of free scholarly articles. They are often indexed by Google Scholar. Scholarly collaboration networks The profiles are indexed by Google and the full-text publications in ResearchGate are indexed by Google Scholar (please note: the version of the article uploaded by the author in ResearchGate can be an earlier version of the final, published version). Scholarly collaboration networks The profiles are indexed by Google and the full-text publications in ResearchGate are indexed by Google Scholar (please note: the version of the article uploaded by the author in ResearchGate can be an earlier version of the final, published version). ResearchGate, a for-profit firm based in Berlin that was founded in 2008, is one of the largest social networking sites aimed at the academic community.
How does ResearchGate earn money?
(Membership is free on ResearchGate, the company instead makes revenues from things like recruitment and other advertising, both of which are being directed at exactly the audience that those advertisers want to reach.) There are currently 12 million registered members, compared to 467 million currently on LinkedIn. (Membership is free on ResearchGate: the company instead makes revenues from things like recruitment and other advertising, both of which are being directed at exactly the audience that those advertisers want to reach.) ResearchGate, a for-profit firm based in Berlin that was founded in 2008, is one of the largest social networking sites aimed at the academic community. All of this must be paid for through sales and advertising. Academic journals have cleverly managed to turn this situation on its head. The production of content is paid for by research funds, both the salaries of the researchers and the substantial costs involved in undertaking research.
Can I trust ResearchGate?
ResearchGate has been criticized for failing to provide safeguards against the dark side of academic writing, including such phenomena as fake publishers, ghost journals, publishers with predatory publication fees, and fake impact ratings. ResearchGate makes it easy for you to add your publications as well as your unpublished work to your profile.