I have requested a few full research papers and would greatly appreciate it if you can let me know when I might receive papers and are these emailed to me?
Hi no people will share online files... Not may publishers mail and not on Research Gate if you request a publication you will be able to download it directly. Hope this helps you :)
Your requests were sent to the authors, but only if they are ResearchGate members. You will be informed by email when someone provided a full text. However, in most cases such requests are not successfull (copyright problem, full text not available, ...). See these discussions for more reasons: https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_average_response_time_for_a_full_paper_request
If you don't receive it straight away, usually you never will from my experience. It's rude. So then write your own paper on the topic. You don't need those other papers lol :)