RG has definitely been a great help,both from the visibility angle,but also from being able to interact with others in various fields,and to view their research.
My RG citations is less than 50% of those on Google Scholar but I like the RG platform more because it allows me to interact with scholars from across the globe. .
I like this platform as it allows to interact with different people with similar research background and updates us with recent advances in particular area. Yes, it helps to increase your work visibility but not in citations. Citations mainly depend on the quality of work, novelty and research on trending topics and materials.
Researchgate is a wonderful platform to increase the visibility and citations of articles. Within a period of four and half years my publication read has reached to 1,15,051. As far as citations are concerned, none of the two i.e., GS and RG are comprehensive.
Dear Catia, I thought that we had this discussion already in an other forum? But I might be mistaken. In my opinion RG is an open access library for scientists all over the world. I am RG grateful that they offer me this opportunity. Scientists from all over the world are reading my articles. That stimulates me to write more papers about subjects that matter for them and me like prevention of racism, exclusion and polarisation, radicalization and terrorism, super-diverse/ transcultural healthcare etc. I hope that RG stimulates others in a similar way. All the best, Carl
Yes, RG helps to increase the visibility of articles. I have downloaded few articles which I could not access from Journal but Rg has helped. It has also helped directly to communicate with authors and request to send the articles through Email.
Publications, preprints, conference papers and posters, presentations, research data,etc. are all evidence of research activity. By making them all publicly accessible through RG has definitely increased the visibility of my work.