How do I increase my Reads on ResearchGate?

Link to your ResearchGate profile on other websites People who add links to their profiles on other websites can get up to 5 times more publication reads. You can add links to your profile to your personal blog, institution or department page, or lab website.

How does ResearchGate count reads?

For a publication, a 'read' is counted each time someone views the publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure linked to the publication (either directly on the publication page or via the home feed), or views or downloads the full-text, if there is one.

How do I increase my research score on ResearchGate?

RG Score is calculated based on any contribution you share on ResearchGate or add to your profile, such as published articles, unpublished research, projects, questions, and answers.

How do I increase visibility on ResearchGate?

How do I increase citations in ResearchGate?

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How do I increase my citation count?

What is a good score on ResearchGate?

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'.

Why my ResearchGate score is low?

The RG score is a relative score. Therefore, this takes the scores and interactions of every researcher into account when producing a relative rating of our contributions. If our contributions are less than the average of all authors that week, our RG Score could decreases.

Why ResearchGate is not showing all citations?

If you recently added a publication to ResearchGate and notice that citations are missing, please be patient as it can take some time to extract all its citations. Please also note that we aren't able to manually add your citations from other sources, e.g., Google Scholar.

How can I improve my visibility score?

What is the highest ResearchGate score?

In the sample of users with the highest RG Scores, the top score was that of Adam B. Shapiro (439.82). In this sample, there were 26 users whose RG Score was over 100, primarily due to asking and answering questions in the platform.

What is a good number of citations?

Generally speaking, a good number of citations for a paper is considered to be more than 10–20 citations. However, some fields may require more or fewer citations depending on the topic and the journal.

What is a good h-index for a professor?

h-index scores between 3 and 5 feel common for new adjunct professors, scores between 8 and 12 fairly standard for creation to the position of tenured associate professor, and scores between 15 and 20 about right for coming a full professor.

How many reads is good for an article?

A good Medium read ratio is generally between 20 and 50%. It depends, though, on the length of your article and the audience you're trying to engage. Very short articles (3 minutes or less) tend to have a higher read ratio, because it takes less time for a reader to complete the article.

Can I see who visited my ResearchGate?

On your Stats tab, you can see the profiles of your readers (provided that you've both chosen reader visibility settings that show authors when you've read their research), as well as the researchers citing and recommending your work.

Is it legal to share full text on ResearchGate?

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. Store private copies of your full-texts on publication pages that are accessible to you and your co-authors.

Why are ResearchGate and Google Scholar citations different?

Google Scholar tracks academic articles, but it also counts theses, book titles and other documents towards author citation metrics. RG on the other hand tracks citation only if the paper citing the original article is available in their database.

What happens when you request full-text on ResearchGate?

Full-text requests can only be fulfilled by the authors of the publication. No content is automatically supplied in response to a request and in no event will ResearchGate make available or provide a copy of the full-text you have requested.

Is Everything on ResearchGate peer reviewed?

ResearchGate does not charge fees for putting content on the site and does not require peer review.

Is ResearchGate better than Google Scholar?

The results indicate that there are significantly high differences in publications and citations for the same authors captured by the two platforms, with Google Scholar having higher counts for a vast majority of the cases.

How often is ResearchGate score updated?

Updated weekly, the RG Score is a single number that is attached to a researcher's profile.

Is ResearchGate removing projects?

On March 31, 2023, we retired the Projects feature and removed all projects from the site. This was a difficult decision, and it required a lot of discussion and deliberation. At the end of the day, our goal is to create a better science by empowering researchers to do their best work.

Is an impact factor of 2.5 good?

The majority of journals, in fact, fall in the bracket of an IF of 1-1+. So, a journal with an IF of 2-2.5 would be considered having a higher impact than these journals. A journal with an IF of 5 or above would be considered high-impact, but note that these would be fewer in number.

Does ResearchGate make 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.)

Who has the highest h-index?

Scientists with High H-Indexes

At the time of writing, the highest score recorded by Google Scholar is 300, by researcher Ronald C Kessler from Harvard University. JoAnn E Manson from Brigham and Women's Hospital takes second place with a score of 294.