No, I see this as an opportunity to increase the visibility of works, a place to share experiences and connect with people who do similar things.

RG is a platform for exchange of views, ideas, research work and develop appreciation for research work of various researchers from all over the world across various disciplines. It is leading to lot of encouragement for us .

Short NO, since RG is not accounting in professional progress at your working place

Personally, I don't see it as a place for competition. Rather, it is a wonderful academic platform that connects researchers from around the world and brings us the most recent academic publications.

I agree with answer of Dr. K. Karthik .................

RG is an excellent platform to exchange information either scientific or literature related. RG score should be addicted.

Is a platform for exchanging views and ideas in the field of scientific research

No, not at all, RG is an excellent platform mostly for younger and promising researchers to learn from experts in their area of expertise. It also an avenue to create better visibility for their publications and increase possible citation count.

It is also an archiving platform for research publications for all researchers.

It is never a platform to compete for presence or merit/score, it is a learning platform for all.

No, I do not see RG as a place to compete for scores. Does this RG score help you anyway? No, then why to think about it. It is merely a statistics that shows your presence in terms of interaction with other colleagues.

Thanks Dr Emin Grbic, Dr Ashok Pundir, Dr Srete Nikolovski, Dr Abdullah Noori, Dr K. Karthik

All the researchers, here,

have their own RG score and this score indicates the activity of the researchers in this platform. so all the participants in this site are in a competition based on the activity level. This is a smart way to encourage us to share our works and knowledges.

Agree with dear Dr. Tarek Selmi.

Agree with Dr. Ashok Pundir & Dr. Mahesh Kumar.

Thanks Dr Mahesh Kumar, Dr Mohammed Moanes Ezzaldean Ali, Dr Tarek Selmi, Dr Hamid Gadouri and Dr J. M. Koli for your response.

Not at all. I see RG as a place where I enjoy in sharing and exchanging ideas.

I see RG as a place where I enjoy in sharing and exchanging ideas, New Research and New Technologies.

Thanks Dr Jelena Lukić and Dr Rajni Kant for your contribution.

No, Agree to all answers.

Thanks Dr Paul Olusegun Bankole and Dr Nazia Asad for your response.

I don't because it is a great platform to connect with scholars in all fields and from across the globe. Many RG members with high scores continue to contribute by answering questions and seeking answer to questions of their own.

Yes RG is a good place to compete for scientific and academic project ..

Thanks Dr Amir W. Al-Khafaji for your contribution.

Yes, sometimes.

From my point of view, it is a place for the acquaintance, exchange of views and experiences with specialists. I see that It's fine also in scientific competition among researchers if its goal is to develop the self and increase knowledge and the dissemination.

I see RG Platform to interact with International Scholars and to Share my Educational views. To learn more by reading daily on RG and on Google To Improve My Ideas and to refine them more. Regards

All of us dont need the score. Yes we need to learn more about our specialty.

RG is only for sharing our research articles, read others research work Nd contribute for important questions..

RG is a home where I delight in membership and exchanging concepts,

Thanks Dr Naseer H. Hamza, Dr Omar Hazem MOHAMMED, Dr Ahsan Siddiqui, Dr Ahed Khatib

Arben J Salihu

No. In my point of view research gate is a place for sharing information and also experience. Also it is a place to connect with sophisticated people in different majors

Thanks Dr Ali Taghvaie Nakhjiri for your response.

Thanks Dr Hidouri Khaoula

I found it interesting and engaging with others of different nationalities. Besides, It is like an academic and fun scoring game.

Mohamed, I accept that competition is ubiquitous and can be healthy, but my work is different to many others on RG as it grapples with perceived wisdom/ideas and therefore is by its nature a niche production. (Maybe not, I'm simply assuming). Dealing with ideas is not the same as more technical papers. Competing with others therefore would not be reasonable. I would anyway likely as not lose. RG gives me alternate ideas, insight into more technical issues, and the chance to converse with like types. Not, as they say, to be dissed.

It depends upon individual thoughts for competing RG Score but I don't think It's a platform for competition.

RG is a platform for exchanging ideas, recent works and expertises between the researchers around the world.

Thanks Dr Marwah Firas Abdullah Al-Rawe, Dr Mohamed A Etman

scores are assessed regarding other scores and their ranks. so, a place for competition as well as exchanging views ,nd boosting relationships and making synergies to solve academic problems.

RG is an excellent communication network and a way of establishing cooperation with the researcher. Researchers are not competitors.

Nicely said by dear Dr. Ashok Pundir, Dr Farangis Shahidzade and Dr. Nihada Ahmetovic, thanks a lot.

Regards

I do not know this great interest in the subject of scores, as if the situation of some colleagues is waiting to be evaluated by the end of each week.

Certainly the RG score isn't the only reason people flock at this social network. Online communication between all ages and domains researchers help to feel a unity of this important loosely defined society in the world.

As far as the RG score is concerned, it is a sort of an inspiration factor allowing researchers to roughly assess members numerous activities by themselves. On the other hand, would we be happy if it is not done by researchers? The algorithms and methodology should be kept improving. However, there is a healthy seed in doing it.

No, not at all. It is a platform for mostly academic/research interaction and relationships.

No, not at all. It is a platform for mostly academic/research interaction and relationships.

Thanks Dr Farangis Shahidzade, Dr Nihada Ahmetovic, Dr Hamid Gadouri, Dr Isam Issa Omran, Dr Nour S. Erekat

I agree with Ashok Pundir

NO! RG is a great platform of intelligent scholars who are dedicated to the promotion of Science through sharing of ideas and publications, research collaborations and soliciting for multiple views and suggestions on research projects.

Competing for scores could be one of the reasons on this fantastic platform, but exchanging views and opinions about a lot of issues and research work concerning different fields of knowledge is the top priority for me. RG helped us maintain friendly ties with people from all corners of the world. Curently, we are making a widespread net of researchers who come from different educational systems and educational institutions worldwide.

I agree with @ Hazim Al Dilaim; your comments are insightful.

Never, its an academic networking and interacting. But, just to make some attractions it gives some score to your interactions.

RG may enrich citations count in addition to other media, like: google scholar, scopus...., otherwise, it is not a subject of competition.

At the moment, RG score looks worthless.

Thanks Dr Mohanad Hazim, Dr Luciano da F. Costa, Dr Dickson Adom, Dr Hazim Al Dilaimy, Dr Farangis Shahidzade, Dr Hom Nath Chalise, Dr Vladimir Mirkovic, Dr Yasser Jaamour and Dr Ijaz Ahmad for your contributions.

agree with @Ashok Pundir

regards

No. There's no room for competition. We don't work for same employer,our disciplines are not exactly same. It is not used for assessment, rather the publications. We simply share knowledge, and give solutions where necessary. That's what makes it so beautiful.

Obianuju P. Umeji

Thanks Dr Obianuju P. Umeji and Dr Hassan Nima for contributions.

Researchers compete only to create a reel positive change in this world. Everyone strives by his own means to contribute to advance the science and technology. All the rest is meaningless.

I think the members should avoid asking the questions that they already know the answers or give useless answers (e.g. I agree with X; that's a very good question or answer, etc) to just raise their RG score. Not professional!

Thanks Dr Imed Romdhani and Mostafa Goudarzi for your contributions.

i dont think so

Thanks Dr Mohd Rafi mohd solleh for your contribution.

Scores are useless... Nothing to compete!

Thanks Dr Felix Nwafor .

I dont think so...

not at all

Absolutely not!

Good question.....I'm sure it does take place,but in the end that's an empty thing to do,as you'll always know,(even if no-one else works it out)that you did something solely to try and raise your score.

If the score reflects an actual impression of the usefulness of your contributions,then it's fine,and may serve to indicate that to all,but as a competition point...no.

Thanks Dr Shibani Dash, Dr Catia Cillóniz, Dr Shukra Raj Paudel and Dr Ian Ewart for your responses.

ResearchGate is the place not only and not at all to compete for score but also to communicate with colleagues.

Thanks Dr Rusudan Labadze for your response

No, for me RG is a social network f to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

I could care less about scores. Only interested in reading related research.

This discussion may be useful:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_you_believe_that_RGs_statistics_are_the_reason_for_which_the_researcher_would_prefer_to_have_more_access_to_RG_platform_compared_to_others

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I can see RG as a Tremendous Research Platform where Research Scholars And Research Students meet Chat Discusses on Single Platform. Here on RG you can Grow your abilities of Research and Publication by Reading Articles Question Answers Others. Here on RG one can collect their Research in the form of Articles Seminars Presentation Book Chapters Others. One can also have records of Reads Citations Recommendations Others. Overall it’s very Beneficial for Researchers Academics Clinicians Others...... Regards

No, I do not see that.

For me, RG is not a place of competition for Score, rather it is a place of continuous learning.

RG is not only to compete for RG score but provide platform to communicate with researchers.

Thanks Dr Mehdi Mohammadian, Dr Mark Cogan, Dr Hamid Gadouri, Dr Ahsan Siddiqui Dr Dhiaa Neama Jabbar, Dr Onengiyeofori Ibama and Dr Nazim Hassan for your responses.

Segun Michael Abegunde You're welcome. ResearchGate is a forum for sharing research and reading interesting research. I invite all to read my latest. And do post your latest so others can see.

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Well, in my opinion it gives motivation to participate in discussions and get more knowledge. It also helps in engaging oneself in research work and be more active. So I would say yes it has to be a place to compete for scores.

I see RG as a forum to share, communicate, interact, debate and especially enriching me hugely with plethora of dimensions into a specific field as well as in diverse subject areas.

It is the oxygen and, I am sure, part of life for many esteemed RG nembers including me.

May be

Thanks Dr Mark Cogan, Dr Muhammad Aamir Shafique Khan, Dr Amit Baran Sharangi and Dr Khulood Obaid for your rsponses.

I don't see ResearchGate as a place to compete for scores, rather it is a platform for sharing knowledge, views, ideas, experience, publications etc. with researchers/scientists across the globe.

Thanks Dr Arvind Singh fpr the reply.

its a platform for participation not competition ..

Thanks Dr Ataul Karim Patwary for your contribution.

No, this is to open your mind