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1- Try your best to publish in Journals with impact factor in either Clarivate analytics or Scopus.
2- International collaboration with foreign colleagues is favorable, and this will give your manuscript double the chances for citations.
3- You should try to write a review article or a book every now and then, and put your old papers and conclusions to give them another "life" or chance to be cited.
4- Don't miss conferences and meetings in your specialist topic, to gain more reputation in your career, and this will automatically be reflected on your citations and points.
5- If you build your scientific reputation by conducting reliable research, with real information and genuine work with minimal plagiarism, your score will continue to grow.
Publishing papers in reputed journals will boost your score. In RG, each journal is having an impact value and our score will increase on the basis of the impact value of journal where we publish articles. The scores are also increased simply by asking questions and providing answers to other questions
Create a project 2. Ask questions 3. Answer the raised questions 4. Follow other researchers 5. Recommendations. 6. Disseminating research 7. Participate in discussions
The RG Score is calculated once a week, so if you've added publications and your score has not yet changed, please be patient. It's also relative, it can go up or down depending on the activity and scores of other ResearchGate members. This means it takes the scores and interactions of every researcher into account to give a relative rating of your contributions. To improve your RG Score:
Share anything from negative results to raw data or full-fledged publications
Create a project, or add an update to your existing project(s)
Ask a question or give another researcher a helpful answer
Follow other researchers
Comment on and recommend your peer's research, projects, and questions
Check the link for more detailshttps://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/RG+Score#:~:text=Why%20has%20my%20RG%20Score,scores%20of%20other%20ResearchGate%20members.
Besides all the above-mentioned points, I want to add that RG is a platform and a gateway for sharing information and experiences between scientists, experts, researchers, and practitioners. In reality, RG is one of the biggest social media networks for the scientific community. Therefore, it is your way to increase your research visibility and, in turn, your citations.
Based on this, your research work should be open-access and free to all people unless there is a crucial need. This can be done during the addition process of any research work or publications by choosing "add a public file" instead of "add a private file".
ResearchGate (RG) score is an accumulative factor of different activities, including scientific and social, on the RG platform. Therefore, it can be increased by the following:
Asking questions and answering other questions.
Initiating valuable discussions related to different topics and participating in others' discussions by replying to their discussions.
Sharing your good research work with other RG colleagues.
Adding new research items. Make sure that all of your publications are listed. If the copyright of the journal allows, include their full texts.
Creating new projects and updating the existing ones.
Increasing your followers by following others. Following other researchers is a way of encouraging them to follow you back.
Comment on and recommend your peer's research and projects.
Based on the aforementioned rules, your score is relative to everybody else. So, it may go up or down depending on the activity and scores of the other RG members. This means it takes the scores and interactions of every RG researcher into account to give you a relative rating of your contributions.
From my point of view, ResearchGate (RG) is the best attractive academic social networking portal for the scientific community. In practice, RG is one of the biggest social media networks for the scientific community. It is a platform and a gateway for sharing information and experiences between scientists, experts, researchers, and practitioners. Hence, I am grateful to the network opportunities offered by RG for having this access to a broad range of researchers, papers, projects, questions, and discussion threads that otherwise I can't find. In a nutshell, ResearchGate (RG) is a kind of social media with a strong academics/research emphasis.
But, let me point to the following issue. Recommend, Follow, Download an article is just social interaction. Despite it helps to increase the RG scores, it reflects neither the work quality nor the researcher's position. This score depends on the institution where you work; this score in the institution where I work hasn't any remote feedback.
I know that the more you participate in various research activities, the more your research interest increases. Nevertheless, as we are researchers, the RG total research of interest shouldn't be our main goal in itself. We should do our job honestly, such as writing valuable articles, participate in the useful discussions that we are really interested in. If we don't bother with this metric, we will see that it will increase.
If we make this metric our goal, it will astray us and then we will jump over some fences to increase our metrics without real internal improvement.
It depends which database you are choosing. The most generous is GoogleScholars. Total citations are always higher but ResearchGate is reduced to half of it and SCOPUS is further reduced some times more, provided the researcher publishes in its listed journals and WoS is further reduced. It depend upon the policy and practice of the respective databases.
Some times it is better to use Google Scholars provided the accepting or not the agencies one is dealing with. Last time we used Google Scholars citations to submit to AACSB for renewal of accreditation of institution we were attached with and the panel was happy to accept. The bottom line is it depends, if you are looking forward to increase your ResearchGate scores, look at its policies and practices.
Invitation to participate in the validation study of my formula for Research Interest (RI) on the RG site! - If you would like to participate, then please (a) look up my published article with RI formula, "The meaning of Research Interest in ResearchGate," (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356160597_The_meaning_of_Research_Interest_in_ResearchGate); (b) send me a message with the below information. If you don't know how to send a message - follow me, I will follow you back, we will become mutual followers, and you will be able to send me a message, or (c.) post your data this thread (https://www.researchgate.net/post/Validation_study_of_formula_for_Research_Interest_RI_on_the_RG_site),
(1) Your name and URL for your account on RG site; 2) Title of your publication; 3) RI, number of citations, recommendations, and reads for this publication; (4) Date when you retrieved this info. Only (3) would be entered into the data array. (1), (2), and (4) are for random verification of provided data.
If you follow me, you will be notified when the results of this validation study are published.
Attached is the current graph for RI from my article. *** I also intend to post an article on the formula for RG Score. *** Please spread the word around about this validation study.