How do I make my ResearchGate profile private?

Go to your Privacy Settings and scroll to the section Your public profile. Choose whether you want to enable or disable your public page. You can also choose whether your profile photo and questions and answers are displayed on your public page. Your changes will be saved automatically.

How do I hide my profile on ResearchGate?

Can people see if I view their ResearchGate?

Because reading activity on ResearchGate is a mutual relationship, only the authors who have enabled this setting will see that you read their work, provided you have also allowed this. Sometimes, some but not all co-authors of a publication will have enabled this setting.

Can anyone access ResearchGate?

ResearchGate is a professional network for researchers, which means that membership is reserved for those who are involved in scientific research.

How do I remove myself from ResearchGate?

Go to your Account settings. At the bottom of the page, click Delete account. If you're sure you want to delete your account, click Continue. If you'd like to, you can share some details about why you're deleting your account.

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What is the alternative to ResearchGate?

net's top 5 competitors in January 2024 are: mdpi.com, academia.edu, semanticscholar.org, core.ac.uk, and more. According to Similarweb data of monthly visits, researchgate. net's top competitor in January 2024 is mdpi.com with 21.7M visits.

Is it legal to share full text on ResearchGate?

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.

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.

Is ResearchGate worth it?

“For me, ResearchGate has, for years, been a useful tool,” says Laplaza, a computational chemist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL). It helps him manage the deluge of published papers—including preprints, which are posted online before being peer-reviewed.

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'.

Is ResearchGate considered social media?

ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

Who is following me on ResearchGate?

How do I see who I'm following and who's following me? You can see who you're following and who's following you on the right-hand side of your Profile tab. We'll notify you via email and on-site notifications when someone new follows you.

How do I increase visibility on ResearchGate?

What is private full text in ResearchGate?

Note: Making a full-text file private means the full-text will no longer be publicly displayed, but a private copy will be available to you and the co-authors. You must always make sure that you have the right to publicly share or privately store your full-text before doing so.

Can you join ResearchGate without institutional email?

Yes, even I did not have a university ID, hence it is possible to open a ResearchGate account even if you do not have a university email address. ResearchGate might ask you to prove that you are a researcher by uploading some files.

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.

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.

Is there anything better than Google Scholar?

Web of Science. The Web of Science™ is the world's most trusted publisher-independent global citation database. The legacy of Dr Eugene Garfield (inventor of the first citation index in the world), guides the Web of Science to be the most powerful research engine.

How does ResearchGate make money?

ResearchGate is a popular academic profile site and for-profit company that makes money through sponsors, as well as recruitment and other advertising, so practically selling data about its users to advertisers, then carrying that advertising to the target audience.

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.

How much does it cost to publish a paper in ResearchGate?

Article Processing Charge(APC) which means publication fee of articles depends upon the academic publishers who publish the articles. They publish article with two ways. They often charge $100 to over $3,000 for both types of article publishing open and closed.

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.

How much does ResearchGate cost?

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.

Can I use ResearchGate for free?

This also does not require an account. However, if prompted, you may join ResearchGate for free by creating a username and password.