ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.
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11 Facts About ResearchGate
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ResearchGate indexes self-published information on user profiles to suggest members to connect with others who have similar interests.
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ResearchGate published an author-level metric in the form of an "RG Score" since 2012.
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In March 2022 ResearchGate announced they would remove the RG Score after July 2022.
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ResearchGate was founded in 2008 by virologist Dr Ijad Madisch, who remains the company's CEO, with physician Dr Soren Hofmayer, and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher.
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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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ResearchGate was visited regularly by half of those surveyed by Nature, coming second to Google Scholar.
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ResearchGate has been criticized for emailing unsolicited invitations to the coauthors of its users.
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Study published by the Association for Information Systems in 2014 found that a dormant account on ResearchGate, using default settings, generated 297 invitations to 38 people over a 16-month period, and that the user profile was automatically attributed to more than 430 publications.
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Subsequently, Coalition for Responsible Sharing reported that "ResearchGate has removed from public view a significant number of copyrighted articles it is hosting on its site".
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ResearchGate has managed to achieve an agreement on article uploading with three other major publishers, Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press and Thieme.
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