It depends what you would like to extract from an academic platform. Attractiveness ? visibility ?Selective set of citations ? Large number of citations ? Academic profile ? for each of those you could fine another platform. LinkedIn gives you an academic and professional profile . Academia is a platform for recent publications and RG is a platform for academic exchange of ideas, questions, works and information. Take your pick.
Dear Mohamed Aboras, Thank you very much for asking this very important question.
I answer an interesting question:
Another important academic platform is Google Scholar, because it also collects data on the subject of citation and allows for exchange of information, research experience.
In addition, the ORCID platform performs a similar function. In addition, apart from globally acting platforms of this type, there are also platforms with local or national coverage.
In addition to RG, what are the most important platforms for the academic community and why?
this is a very important issue that requires scientific research.
The above discussion inspired me to the following considerations:
Research Gate is a very useful science portal in which scientists and researchers and practitioners can find interesting scientific publications on a specific topic. In addition, it is possible to set up research teams, including international ones, at RG. RG is also an excellent form of scientific information exchange, including the results of scientific research between researchers conducting research work in analogous problems. RG is also a huge database of scientific publications that can be quickly found on a given topic in the RG search engine. In connection with the above, RG has many advantages that determine the rapid development of this portal.