Some answers at researchgate are really vital and worth to be referred.
You can cite the part of the answer, when the answer is based on research findings. One should not cite the part of general discussion or general debate.
Be careful!
Citation: address of the research gate, year, and accessed date be used for citation.
You can cite the part of the answer, when the answer is based on research findings. One should not cite the part of general discussion or general debate.
Be careful!
Citation: address of the research gate, year, and accessed date be used for citation.
Thank you Sir; however, research findings need to be cited as per the standard format with detail of journal etc, and not with a reference of research gate.
It is more a question of sincerity of a researcher towards attributing the actual intellectual property holder. Even i am of the opinion, that an idea borrowed during a verbal discussion or by whatever means should be acknowledge.
Dear all,
Can we use information/answer after testing it statistically?
Dear Prof Kumar,
Your earlier question is an interesting one. Many techniques tend to be subjected to many negative comments when they were first introduced. However, when those techniques were able to endure over time and become more acceptable to researchers, comments received tend to be more constructive rather than destructive. Similarly, ResearchGate could be a new avenue for researchers to gather opinions either qualitatively or quantitatively from experts in their respective fields. This is similar to the conventional techniques of conducting interview or distributing survey questionnaire. With relevant sampling strategy, such as the purposive sampling method, I believe this forum would be the way forward in research where citations from appropriate experts would be as acceptable as when using other techniques.
Dear @Sanjay, you may refer to any important and convincing answer at Research Gate in a research paper, if you find that is so relevant and significant. @Subhash has given the proper way of citation, I think it is ok!
Dear Professor Aminuddin Md Arof,
Thank you Sir for contributing your very useful and enthusiastic views about using RG as a platform to gather meaningful information.
Best Regards.
Dear Professor Ljubomir Jacić,
Thank you Sir for your valuable answer.
Best Regards.
Dear Colleague,
Formally, it might be helpful to go to a referencing system and see how to do it. I suspect that you will not find any answer out there. If this is the case one might conclude that this might not be considered as a valid source in the «scientific»/academic domain
Moreover, references are not all the same and their credibility is ranked according to its origin and typology. Even some journals are more credible than others according with several factos as we all know. The same for different types of books ranging from research books, edited books, best sellers or even study books. Then, conferences, which are of so many types and formats....websites etc etc professional publications directed to practitioners etc etc. The above enumerated sources are not necessarily sequenced in any way.
One could also argue that even papers that are anonym, despite being published, might be valuable, if nothing else with more credibility exists, of course...
To sum up my option would be to include some specific acknowledgement in the proper section or even in a footnote in order to recognise the contribution.
Thanks for reading. Hope I helped.
Kind regards
jvb
On RG, you may also find some papers, project reports, PhD thesis, data bases, etc those are with DOI number but unpublished.
In such cases, while citing, cite with DOI number along with specific RG address.
Thank you Dr Subhash C. Kundu for your valuable contribution.
Best Regards.
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