There is probably no other science portal that would offer all the same functions for researchers as the Research Gate portal.
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following question:
Does the Research Gate research portal offer the most information services for researchers that researchers and scientists need?
Please reply
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Thank you very much
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The RG is a nice research portal where we can share our scientific knowledge. We can get information from here. But sometimes some researchers are inactive in RG. They do not upload their recent research articles in RG portal. Even they do not response to the request for full text of their articles. In that case we miss some new information. The RG authority may help in that case by collecting and providing/uploading those articles.
Thank you
The RG is a nice research portal where we can share our scientific knowledge. We can get information from here. But sometimes some researchers are inactive in RG. They do not upload their recent research articles in RG portal. Even they do not response to the request for full text of their articles. In that case we miss some new information. The RG authority may help in that case by collecting and providing/uploading those articles.
Thank you
I think it's less about information services and more about social media for nerds (not in a bad labelling kinda way). I mean i don't find it useful for most part, but it's fun to connect with other people with the same interest for research.
I think that ResearchGate (RG) can become whatever is the perception of the user that navigates it. My perception of its use is to be informed and updated on the new important streams of research in different branches of science and technology carried out by individuals, research groups, universities and organizations. Also, I consider that RG is one of the most interesting platforms you can find online to discuss research problems and a powerful tool to disseminate scientific information and find research collaboration.
In reality I expect more from ResearchGate - more proposals to researchers for research projects, more articles put fully on ResearchGate pages, more necessary questions and answers, more of everything... But it depends on our participation in RG - it is a question of time, I think, when RG will become more developed and used.
I use RG mainly as an archive of my own published and unpublished research papers. Many unpublished papers that I presented at professional meetings are difficult for other researchers to obtain; I hope they are of interest to other researchers.
It is the best portal to exchange research articles with other researchers ever
Yes, from my personal experience
it is a very useful resource center, I got many articles here for my study
Suits for Academic social networking info. exchange... Jeng, W., DesAutels, S., He, D., & Li, L. (2017). Information exchange on an academic social networking site: a multidiscipline comparison on ResearchGate Q&A. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(3), 638-652.
Usage of Info. n details in RG Q n A... Deng, S., Tong, J., Lin, Y., Li, H., & Liu, Y. (2019). Motivating scholars’ responses in academic social networking sites: An empirical study on ResearchGate Q&A behavior. Information Processing & Management, 56(6), 102082.
For archiving purposes... Lee, J., Oh, S., Dong, H., Wang, F., & Burnett, G. (2019). Motivations for self‐archiving on an academic social networking site: A study on researchgate. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 70(6), 563-574.
It is the question of priorities for researchers - to be active on ResearchGate, or to be engaged in other activities. There are very good researchers, who have carried excellent projects, or have written important works, but have never participated in the process of questions/answers of ResearchGate, or do not want to put their books and articles on ResearchGate. What I am suprised a bit, that many of ResearchGate members do not understand the use of this network for inviting/participating in joint research projects, and usually rely on their old personal ties, but do not search for new interesting, sometimes - very innovative and non-traditional possibilities.
Dear D A Gayan Nayanajith,
Thank you for your reply, for participating in our discussion. Thank you very much for the links and bibliographic descriptions of sources, articles, scientific works on this important issue of the importance of scientific portals, including the RG portal in the context of the development of scientific cooperation, including international scientific cooperation. Thank you very much for the materials sent, publications describing interesting issues. Thank you very much for your valuable contribution to our discussions and I invite you to continue our deliberations on this important and interesting issue.
Best wishes,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
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