In my two years of experience in RG, I have seen several issues, which I don't like at all. May be that is my personal issues, but what you think regarding the following issues?
First, In scientific discussion, the way of writing should be in right format. It should not be like you are messaging to your friend. for example : wht u thnk abt d ...........
Second, Before asking your doubt, you have to check, already someone has asked the question or not. Or is the answer of question will be available by simple google search. I think question should be significant.
Third, Lot of researcher are uploading their own article in RG. Is it not going against the privacy, term and condition of the journals? I think, if you need the article, which is not accessible to you or your institute, you can ask your friend or corresponding author of that article.
Please share your opinion.
I'll answer these in order:
1) I actually don't have a problem with this - I haven't seen any Qs or As that are totally in txtspk and the occasional abbreviation (e.g. my 'Q' above) seems fine to me.
2) Yes I agree! Also, the meaning of some of the Qs I've seen is hard to work out. Maybe Qs also need a system of upvoting to determine quality!!
3) I haven't uploaded articles yet - partly for this reason and partly because they're available on my university repository. Any free online publications are 'pulled in' by RG so are downloadable on both RG and ORO (open research online - the OU's repository). Also, the OU collates its own statistics, and if someone downloads an article from RG then they're not downloading it on ORO....
My tactic with all these online sites is to establish a presence - I'm on LinkedIn and Academia.edu - but to link to my university homepage for updates. How much time can we spend self-publicizing and updating??!
Maria
Thank you Dr. Maria.
Yes txtspk is hard to work out.Making not that much problem but you think, if you started to write article like that......... will the culture and respect remain same for the scientific article?
Fine, you are not uploading articles.Yes it is true it is partially self-publicizing. But you can't disagree that we are sharing our work and knowledge with others through this network.
Look on these two questions. At least before asking, check is it already exist?
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_one_is_more_sensitive_to_gases_CNTs_or_graphene_both_have_high_surface_to_volume_ratio?_tpcectx=topic_detail_recommendations&tpr_view=9f9ef295-b7e9-4b5c-8562-cb7fb968e516_1&_trid=45ba3b0d-b69a-4ee7-98d4-7e504523b13a_1#53d34b08d3df3ebf228b4569
https://www.researchgate.net/post/In_case_of_Carbon_nanotubes_and_graphene_which_is_more_sensitive_material_if_you_expose_the_same_gas2?_tpcectx=home_feed
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