How to effectively use ResearchGate?

How do I use ResearchGate?

Getting started with ResearchGate is easy – here's a quick overview of what to do first: If you haven't registered yet, start by visiting www.researchgate.net and clicking Join for free. Once your account is created, complete your profile to start connecting with your colleagues and other researchers around the world.

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is calculated based on any contribution you share on ResearchGate or add to your profile, such as published articles, unpublished research, projects, questions, and answers.

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 good for research?

Academic reception of ResearchGate remains generally positive, as recent reviews of extant literature show an accepting audience with broad coverage of concepts.

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Is it legal to upload article to 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.

Is it OK to upload papers to ResearchGate?

Uploading the full text is considered as making it public. If you have published your paper in a journal you should check the publisher's conditions. The best place to do so is the SHERPA/RoMEO database. ResearchGate attempts to do an automatic check on this database but to be sure, it is better to check it yourself.

Is Everything on ResearchGate peer reviewed?

Research gate is not a journal or other form of publication outlet. It's a sort of researcher's facebook with an option to upload papers or preprints of papers that were published elsewhere. These are not peer-reviewed (again) by research gate.

Is it okay to cite ResearchGate?

ResearchGate is not a publisher. 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.

Who is ResearchGate competitor?

The closest competitor to researchgate.net are sciencedirect.com, springer.com and wiley.com.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

What are the benefits of ResearchGate?

Using ResearchGate can help you to connect with others researchers, discover research that is relevant to you, and to make your own work discoverable.

Can I use ResearchGate as a student?

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.

What should you not cite?

When writing about yourself or your lived experiences, a citation is not necessary. Original ideas, including the write-up of results from your own research or projects, do not require citations.

Can I share accepted manuscript on ResearchGate?

If your article was not published open access, you cannot publicly share the accepted manuscript version on ResearchGate. However, you can still upload the published journal article or accepted manuscript privately.

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 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 ResearchGate indexed by Google Scholar?

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).

How long does it take to get an article from ResearchGate?

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Usually it should take a few minutes to days but at times weeks to months even. If the researcher is not online or hasn't been on RG recently, so may not even be aware of the request secondly he or she may not have a copy at hand and so cannot respond to the request atleast not immediately.

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.

Can I remove a preprint from ResearchGate?

If you did not add the the preprint yourself, you are not able to delete it from ResearchGate, only from your profile. Contact the support team as indicated there.

Can I create ResearchGate account without institutional email?

If you're a published researcher or in higher education but don't have an institutional email address, we're happy to consider your account request.