Dear Adam W Potter,

Please also have a look these useful ResearchGate links.

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

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_RG_Score_is_calculated2

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

Good luck!

RG score is relative like percentile not percentage. Everything you have mentioned is taken into account, the most important is your active participation in RG.

See the given link too: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_best_way_to_increase_RG_score?_ec=topicPostOverviewFollowedQuestions

The score depends on your participation.

No, I don't know the formula for RG score.

Dear Adam W Potter,

Please also have a look these useful ResearchGate links.

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

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_RG_Score_is_calculated2

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

Good luck!

According to Dr. Mostafa Eidiani on how to calculate RG score:

a1= Publication views (Total) a2=Publication views (Last week)

b1=Profile views (Total) b2=Profile views (Last week)

c1=Full-text downloads (Total) c2=Full-text downloads (Last week)

d1=Dataset downloads (Total) d2=Dataset downloads (Last week)

e1=Citations (Total) e2=Citations (Last week)

f1=Profile views (Total) f2=Profile views (Last week)

g1=Endorsements (Total) g2=Endorsements (Last week)

h1=Question views and voted (Total) h2=Question views and voted (Last week)

i1=Answer view and voted (Total) i2=Answer view and voted (Last week)

RG(Total)=RG(Old)+RG(Last week)

RG(Last week)=(a2/a1)+(b2/b1)+(c2/c1)+(d2/d1)+(e2/e1)+(f2/f1)+(g2/g1)+(h2/h1)+(i2/i1)

IF RG(Last week)

Dear Modestus Okwu,

Definitely it is very clear now .....but the equation contains profile views twice....b & f.....is it so..... or simply appears twice by mistake?

Dear Adam W Potter,

Nice question, i have this doubt too

Hi Adam,

Great question! Please see this link for a equation that predicts RG score: http://ascw.know-center.tugraz.at/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ASCW15_jordan_response_kraker-lex.pdf

What is amazing is that the RG score is that it is not fixed. Sometimes, it gets up or it comes down. To me, this issue remains a hidden and unpredictable secret to most RG users.

Previously I compared my and other colleagues contributions on RG for some weeks. In that periods my contributions were highly more than for those colleagues (about twice), however, their RG score increased about two times of my score! So, until now, I do not know how the RG formula is work.

There is no information on the formula for calculating Researchgate score on Researchgate website.

I don’t know the formula of RG !!!!!

Thank you for all the answers and comments! I am going to spend some of my down-time making a RG-score model... there is probably a simple regression or KNN-type method that will get us there. Everyone here should be on the publication :)

You are welcome.

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