Has anyone received a request for re-verification on their RG account yet? And, what's more, AFTER having had their institutional e-mail address removed (for retirement reasons)? My non-institutional e-mail address does not match my affiliation which makes re-verification impossible. What happens to my account when verification expires?
I is not possible to phonecall ReserachGate nor do they respond to e-mails...
Grateful for any insight!
Thank you Peter for taking the trouble to respond!
Meanwhile ChatGPT (which I dread) gave a plausible reply:
On ResearchGate, when you get a notification like “your verification is expiring soon”, it usually refers to the institutional or email-based verification that confirms you are affiliated with a university or research institution.
- ✅ If you verified your account with an official university/institutional email address, ResearchGate may periodically re-check it.
- ✅ If that verification “expires” and you don’t renew/update it, you may simply lose the verified status (blue tick), but your account won’t be blocked or deleted.
- ⚠️ You might lose access to some features restricted to verified researchers (e.g. certain content requests, project features, or visibility boosts), but you’ll still be able to log in and use ResearchGate.
So in short:
👉 Yes, it’s about the verification tick.
👉 No, your account won’t be blocked if you ignore it – you’ll just appear as unverified until you re-confirm your institutional affiliation.
PS. Nice to see you are a Cambridge alumnus and more. Still, just an amazing place to have had the chance to be.
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