You need to know the rules and use them judiciously.

To Chia-Lin Chang:

Many thanks for your judicious response.

There is a simple Answer: "What Rules?"

It might be worth noting the following serious issue relating to the RG score:

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

I enjoy the endless discussions in Q&A, where everyone seems to have an opinion.

This should be encouraged as most Questions are open ended and do not have uniquely correct Answers.

In connection with the RG score, as of 26 May 2019 I have compiled a list of 126 academics with RG score > 100.

I do not pretend to have a comprehensive list, but I am able to provide some data to support and encourage sensible empirical discussion about the RG score, whether you care about the RG score or not.

In my list, the highest RG score = 965.45, with h-index = 27.

Of the 126 academics, 32 have h-indexes in the range [0, 10).

Two academics have h-index = 0, and four have h-index = 1.

The remaining 94 academics have an h-index in the range [10, 91], with more than one-half of 94 having h-index > 25.

The majority of the 126 academics have h-index > 20.

This is not achieved through endless Q&A, contrary to what has been repeated in various threads relating to the RG score, but through serious academic research over an extended period.

RG is academic social media, so there would seem to be few, if any, restrictions on what can be expressed, subject to legal requirements, professional courtesy, and socially accepted standards of politeness.

Answering with "Following" apparently does not contravene the RG conditions that govern an academic's behaviour.

The same holds for repeatedly answering the same Question, even one's own.

I wish to thank the respondents for their interesting, challenging, informative, instructive, innovative, topical, timely, entertaining, and occasionally highly amusing, Answers.

There are several self-appointed gatekeepers on different threads who repeatedly refer to "cheating" to manipulate the RG score, but they are unable to define cheating.

You need to know the rules to play a game properly.

I am sorry to tell you that RG is not a game for me.

Best wishes,

Ildefonso

To Chia-Lin Chang :

Many thanks for your interesting Answer.

To Ildefonso Gustavo Díaz Sandoval :

Many thanks for your helpful Answer.

Please, see a comment/answer on Total Research Interest (TRI): “Madhu, intellectual capability cannot be measured. I think that the new game of the RG government is nonsense. Greetings from Belgrade” (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Miroslav_Pavlovic/answers).

To Peter Breuer:

Many thanks for your detailed and interesting Answer.

Many internet rankings sites, including RG, provide the h-index with and without self citations.

To Romeo:

Many thanks for the interesting website.

Although it might be the case that intellectual capability cannot be measured directly, it can be estimated.

To Peter breuer:

Thank you for your Answer.