After you have logged on to RG, you can click on your own picture icon on top right of any RG screen. Once the next screen turns up, you should see your RG score (if there is any) next to your picture icon.
Can you guide me to view my research contributions?
Continue from above - beside your RG score, on the same screen below your picture icon, you can click on the 2nd tab called "Contribution" - from there you can see all your contributions including articles, artifacts, questions & answers etc.
If you cannot see your RG score, this means that it is still inactive. It takes a while to activate it probably one years or more if I am right. Thanks
It is now 14 months and my account is still inactive...If anyonw have access to the organizers to give the good word for me...for it is way to silly not to have a rating after 14 months
Thanks to everyone, now this is my problem too, Mr Gopabandhu Panigrahi and Waleed Al-Bazzaz; your RG score is visible now for us. How can i turn my RG score on?
Please click on right down arrow on your profile picture and go to settings, then fill or update all your required information's. I think it will help you. Thanking You,
Still, If you cannot see your RG score, this means that it is still inactive. It takes a while to activate it probably one years or more if I am right. Thanks
Your RG Score will only be activated and displayed when it reaches a minimum of 1. If you've just signed up and confirmed authorship of a significant number of publications, please be patient, as the score is only updated once per week.
RG score takes sometime to appear. In addition, you have to ask, answer questions, post articles, share, recommend, follow and get followed to boost your RG score.
Only you can see your RG score for now on your score tab, which will only be visible to you alone, it will only be activated on your profile when it reach 1, my advice continue working and put your mind off it, but know that it will change at the unexpected time.
Your RG score is visible to you alone in your score tab, will be visible to all on your profile when it reaches minimum of 1, though I have seen someone with 0.02 RG score that is visible to the public.
It depends how you set your report to get (on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis). Of course, sometimes you can not see the RG score because your score is under calculation to give you the update. Initially, it appears when the score is around 1.
I tried to inbox you the link below but could not. Though this is offtopic for the question platform but the link below can help you to solve your curiosity
You can go to your profile page, you will get the option of overview, research, experience, stats, score, and research you follow. Click on the score to see the score below.
Well, I can see your RG score (9.19). To view, you can go to your profile page (by simply clicking on your profile photo, for instance) and then you land on a home page with "Overview, Research, Experience, Stats, Score, Research you follow", then click on the Score, you will see your score and how much every part of your contributions (Publications, Questions, Answers and Followers) weigh for your score.
, you are correct. For a score to be seen publicly by other RG users, it needs to reach 1 (minimum). However, even the score below 1, the RG user can see it (only him/herself, but not publicly), using the above-mentioned procedure.
Waleed Al-Bazzaz One can not see his own score in RG until it reached some criteria. For being able to see your own RG score, it necessarily much reached 1 in minimum. However, if you want to see the RG score, in that case, you can go to the score in your profile which is not publicly shown.
This score will only be activated and showed upon reaching to 1. If you've just signed up and confirmed authorship of a significant number of publications, please be patient.
Don't forget that your RG score is a combination of Publications, Questions, Answers and Followers and will only appear after you reach 1. Go to your profile and scores.
It will be automatically updated on your research gate profile when it reaches to value 1 (minimum). This is the only condition to view/get your research score (RG Score) (i.e., Research contribution).
The breakdown of the RG Score consists of the number of publications, questions asked, questions answered, and obviously followers too.
The RG score based on the Research Interest , Citations, Recommendations and Reads by the researcher. It is a decided by the number of publication, questions, answer and the number of followers. Visible once it reaches the value 1. Also available in your profile below scores.
According to RG's official help section, your RG Score will be displayed as soon as it reaches the value 1 and it can not be turned off after:
"Your RG Score will only be activated and displayed when it reaches a minimum of 1. If you've just signed up and confirmed authorship of a significant number of publications, please be patient, as the score is only updated once per week. "
"The RG Score is a metric that measures scientific reputation based on how all of your research is received by your peers. As an integral feature of ResearchGate, it can't be turned off or hidden. "
You can find more details in your "Score" tab from your profile!
Identify yourself as an expert in your field by uploading your publications and providing answers to questions from other members of Research Gate then expect to see your own secure automatically.
Expect Scores by way of keep on adding publications (papers, reports etc.) and Scientific Q/As etc.. Its updated gradually on weekly basis, so be patient.
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.
Now, to answer the question, RG shows the score whenever it exceeds one.
This is the interest of the every ARG Users usually but the main worry is about to increase the score on weekly basis.
You have to upload the recent research articles, answering questions, recommend the advanced research publications and raise more pertinent questions that will fetch more scores.
It will increase based your performance. Even some RG Users have zero citations that they score 25 or more scores.
It is really surprising to know that how they are calculating by ARG Team Evaluators are checking the overall performance including your research publications etc to be considered for score calculation.
An important thing, it cannot make any sense because the ResearchGate will remove the RG Score from the ResearchGate system after July 2022. So, the ResearchGate Score is just a part of history.
Instead of Research Interest, h-index, Citations, Reads, and Recommendations form the core set of metrics, which have been used to represent your impact on you and others on the RG platform.
Again, I thank everyone who contributed to answering this question according to their experience.
Second this question was asked in 2017, an old question.
Third, I would like to add that when publishing a referred journal article, the RG score will increase fastly and largely, so publishing in referred journal has the greatest impact on increasing this achievement RG number.
If you publish in conferences or in small journals (Q3 and Q4) the RG score will only increase slightly, but if you publish in referred journals especially Q1 and Q2, then RG score number will increase faster and greater.
Last News: ResearchGate will remove RG score after July 2022
We will remove the RG Score from ResearchGate after July 2022
To help improve our approach to metrics, we will discontinue the RG Score.
Learn more about this decision, our new approach to metrics, and what comes next.
The ResearchGate (RG) announced that they will remove the RG Score from ResearchGate after July 2022.
Tomorrow is the first day of July 2022, let us see what will be instead of the ResearchGate (RG) score!
We must not forget that RG said:
"At the start of this year, we announced the decision to remove the RG Score after July 2022. We're aware that many of you found the RG Score valuable, so we'd like to provide some more detail on our thinking behind this decision and give you a sneak peek into what's next."