Researchgate Question: How to get rid of inappropriate suggestions?

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Horst Treiblmaier

Harry Gosker So far I have not found a solution. However, after clicking on "Hide" for several months, I do not see any updates from this researcher anymore. Hopefully RG will come up with a better solution.

Harry Gosker

Tnx. I hope they do. It really makes no sense - I do not even follow that researcher. And even if I did, I do not want to receive updates when papers of others are cited.

You are right. I did not follow that research either. I guess this is a bug in the RG recommendation system.