ResearchGate (RG) is not a publisher, but a platform to inform about papers and books published elsewhere and make these easier available as far as copyright allows. However, you may put unpublished research like preprints, presentations or data to RG. See "Add new" at the upper right corner; there is a distinction between published and unpublished research.

ResearchGate (RG) is not a publisher, but a platform to inform about papers and books published elsewhere and make these easier available as far as copyright allows. However, you may put unpublished research like preprints, presentations or data to RG. See "Add new" at the upper right corner; there is a distinction between published and unpublished research.

hi Cornelius Simba you can add article in your RG profile for other scholars in RG to explore. RG is not publishing house or platform.

Regards

Dear Cornelius Simba,

On the RG portal, you can post texts that have previously been published under open access in other publishers and to which we have copyright. On the RG portal, you can also post preprints waiting to be published in other publishers.

Best regards, Have a nice day, Stay healthy!

Dariusz Prokopowicz

To the best of my knowledge you can upload your already published articles in RG

Researchgate is a platform for scientists to show their open access publications, exchange views and published articles. RG is not a journal or a publishing house.

I fully agree with all answers

RG is a platform for sharing knowledge. Is not a publishing outfit. It is available for those papers previously published and also preprint opportunity for yet to be published papers. Thanks.

I think you need to take care. Once your article has been published, certainly in the UK, I understand that there are some publishers that do not agree to open access of their published articles and some that will only agree to the form that the article takes, when it is uploaded, as onto ResearchGate. This is why there are various articles that I have made only available when asked for a copy; the 'private full text' articles.

This website will inform you whether you can make your publications freely available or not:

https://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/

This RG link is also very helpful and also very important:

https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Copyright

(see the 'general principles' paragraph)

But, at the same time, RG is a great way to disseminate your published work!

As Wolfgang R. Dick said preprints, power points, and results can be placed here. All I can tell you is that for google scholar's algorithm's in 2015 my grad students on a reverse engineering project determined that Researchgate was apparently rated as a strong publishing house like Taylor and Francis. (on the internet no one knows you are a dog) True, if your preprint is not cited by a published paper already recognized by Scholar... well then it does not exist.

But an untold number of preprint articles are being cited in covid research at this moment and as indicated as a whole Researchgate's corpus (collection of articles) contains some pretty significant weight. In addition, Researchgate's preprints dominate Google's (itself) results. Last week I piloted my class's homework instead of giving them the urls of the two articles to read and discuss I gave them these two Google queries:

Microbial outsourcing

A tale of two beers

In France, both my articles, as yet in preprint, were on the first SERP page

Sincerely

CGY

PS let me know if in your country the same holds true. Thanks

RG is not a journal, you can add only your published papers here.

Hello Simba, you see to be new in publishing, you need to ask your lecturer to guide you on different journals that you can publish. At the moment don't aim for big impact factor journals as you master the art of writing.