Dear collegues. Can Reserch Gate help to raise the citation of researches in the Scopus, Web of Science and other databases? Yes or no? How? What do you think about it? Please write your opinion.
Different high ranked journals generally want maximum references from them/ their category.
If anybody depend totally on free PDF articles for references, he may not get entry to very very high rated journals. It is not due to only a question of quality, but also of class.
Personally I never tried for such journals. Quality is the only factor to me.
Putting your publications on researchgate give them a very large audience and really increase the potential for more citation in papers and counts in indexes.