It may be due to your system configuration or you might be missing few mandatory information that you should provide while uploading..try in a different system (possibly with better configuration)..all the best

Ferenc, look here: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_I_upload_an_article_in_PDF_format

Hello Sven,

The link you have provided is a dead one, going back to itself.

Hello Ferenc,

when I follow the link it works! Don't know why not for you. There one guy write how its work by himself. Otherwise Ina tell that it doesn't work for herself. On the top right there you can search, you should fill in How do I upload an article in PDF format? then you find it also.

Here is a trick how it works. You must not be logged in.

I suspect it's a bug.

When the original message of a discussion thread is

deleted by the author, the whole thread becomes inaccessible.

Only for persons who are logged into ResearchGate.

If you are not logged in, all is still visible.

Regards,

Joachim

Hello Joachim, then maybe I can see it when I am logged in because I am a follower of this thread!

Thanks Joachim, it did work as you suggested

Try uploading with different web browser!

I think problem is with the web browser!

Dear Ferenc, I had similar problem when I tried to upload text written with cyrillic letters in Serbian. Or maybe your file was too big. Best wishes, Dragana

Just an update regarding this issue. Researchgate support told me that they have fixed the problem, but still does not work. However, I tried Chrome and file uploading was working smoothly with it.

I also have trouble uploading some PDF files. Some files work ok, but others look they they upload 100%, but there it stops and I can't access the next step. This happens to files of various file size, so I don't think that is the problem. It is annoying because I would like to upload a complete series of data sets. 

I have two very similar scanned PDF files. One (the larger at 7 MB) uploaded fine, the other (6.5 MB) had the problem stated by G. Braathen -- successful 100% upload then hang, cannot activate the Continue button. Same problem from Firefox 36.0.4 or IE11. Tried as a manual upload, and the upload completes and then things hang while the running  two-disk animation says "Analyzing".  I think something in my PDF file is causing an infinite loop in the Researchgate file upload analyzer software. Two hours wait does not help (Firefox, "other" research material upload). Both PDF files display just fine in Acrobat Reader XI and other PDF viewers. Frustrating!  I put in a RG help request yesterday, but with 6 million users it is hard to imagine them having time to fix this.

SAME PROBLEM

problem solved. upload as research paper. on the go change to conference paper. god with you.

I happened to revisit this web page today (see my May 27 entry above) and noticed the very recent comments above of GG (2) and CC. I tried again on my failed PDF and today it uploaded OK. Maybe RG fixed something, maybe I was making an error. Here is the exact sequence I used today that succeeded. (1) Click the "Add your publications" button top right on your Contributions page; (2) Click All Other Research; (3) Select Technical Report from the drop down (which is what my PDF is more or less); (4) Do the upload by selecting the PDF file of interest . When it gets to 100%, after a short delay it makes a confidence-building check mark. But the continue button is still not active; (5) paste in a document title into the box provided. THIS action brings the continue button to life. (6) leave the DOI blank if you want RG to make a DOI  (7) hit the continue button and fill out the remaining information, then submit. I gave my tech report no number. I did not have to do any "on the go" changes as GG suggested above. And my report was assigned a DOI. Did the upload with Firefox 37.0.2. Hope this is useful.

The same problem. I have tried both latest versions of Chrome and Firefox and it just simply does not work with pdf file. What to do?

My problem is slightly different. The PDF is uploaded, the title is given, the button Continue is active. When I press it, ResearchGate loops for ever and I never reach the step where I can give the author names and conference name. I tried several browsers, several PDF formats and several OS X versions.

Alain I am having the same problem, seems to be since they've changed the website layout.

Thank you for your answer. I dont't see a specific bug report link. May be through the "Contact" link ?

I have exactly the same problem as Alain. 

Problem has been happening for several hours for me on Mac O/s and Windows O/s. 

Michael, and now, have it improved?

I am trying again and after a 10' wait I can say it is still not working.

Test with Safari/ OS X Yosemite

The same problem to me. I cannot upload the papers. The ResearchGate loops for ever without showing any progress. Waiting for the solution.

I too am encountering this issue with manual upload of research articles as well as trying to upload using the "all other research" route.

Can't upload my conference and related papers in pdf wasting precious time for the past few days, thinking I am making a fatal error! Anybody out there in cyberpace to assist me, please. Thank you john j

I tried to upload just the title without any .pdf at all, and it won't even do that... Must be linked to this new style?

Re the problem identified by Alain - I was able to work around it by first importing a citation of a publication as a Bibtex citation file and then I was able to add the full-text PDF to the publication record. Good luck!

I can confirm Spencer K. Lynn's workaround. The easiest way to construct a .bib file is to open notepad, and format your entry like this:

@article{Bibbs et al. 2015,

Author = {Christopher Stephen Bibbs and Alice Fulcher},

Title = {Allethrin-based mosquito control device causing knockdown,

morbidity, and mortality in four species of field-caught mosquitoes

(Diptera: Culicidae)},

Journal = {Journal of Medical Entomology},

Year = {2015}}

Then when you save it, elect to change the extension to .bib instead of .txt either manually, or by changing the drop-down menu to "all files"

This file can then be imported using the reference manager on RG. 

Thanks guys...john j

As far as I can see the bug has been corrected. I used the same procedure/browser/computer as before and the poster was uploaded without any problem.

I'm having the same problem.  When I press the continue button, the browser goes into an apparently endless loop.  I tried about a dozen times.  I've tried uploading as conference paper and working research report.  Both reacted the same - press continue and system hangs.

I'm experiencing the same problems, but also frequently hangs trying to load other researchgate pages. This seems to have started after the recent style update.

My problems with publication uploads keep on. However I've just figured out that they seem to have something to do with my ISP (German Unitymedia over cable). If I connect to internet via my neibor's ISP (1&1 DSL) then everything works flawslesly.

I've run various analysis tools on my ISP connection and couldn't find any problems, so my best guess is that this bug is related to ipv6. (German Unitymedia is native ipv6 while 1&1 is native ipv4)

I cannot upload new publication. ¿Can anyone help me ?

Hi Judith,

When this happened to me a while ago, I found it was the server issue and all you have to do is wait a day or so and it should be fine. Hopefully this is the case :-)

Hello,

I have a similar upload problem for a pdf file. I tried it many times using different browsers (Firefox, opera, chrome) in different days.

I contacted the RG Help Desk. Answer is: "Thanks for contacting us. I've been unable to reproduce your error, could you try with a different browser and see if the problem persists?"

Any recommendation?

My problem is in adding answers to questions on my ipad2 - I type or paste my text, hit the add button, and get the dreaded loop.  Doesn't matter if I'm in mobile or desktop mode.  Tried to submit question via the contact site but that gets the endless loop too.

I too am experiencing the same issues - the continuing looping without uploading - very time wasting too!

Frankly I think the Research Gate software is broken. Does anyone know another site where I can post my work?

Whenever this has happened to me in the past, give it a day or so and it'll work again

THE SAME PROBLEM: THE SYSTEM GETS STUCK WITH LOADING UP OR WITH ENDURING ENDLESS ANALYZING THE UPLOADING

Same problem with me, it seems there is a problem with reseachgate server.

My experience: The system seems to be very sensitive with endless loading, if the standard layout of an article  is not recognizable for it. The normal case is: Latin letters, name of the author above at first, then title (or vice versa), then the text as block setting, because: the more columns the more problems with uploading. It pays to experiment with the best lay ot at least with the first page of the text  

I have had the problem that after a successful upload of the PDF-file and pressing the button Continue ResearchGate loops forever. The solution of the problem was first not modifying (i.e. shorten) the automatically extracted title during the upload process and second to choose a title longer than 10 characters (My paper was about the topological game 'Sprouts', and the title 'Sprouts' is too short for ResearchGate)

Same. Tried all browsers and all the suggestions here. None worked. RG please fix!

I uploaded a 30 mb file yesterday through Firefox just in 5 minutes ir leas.

I have had a similar upload problem but it totally solved when changed the web browser to safari, it is now doing great without switching file format, compress it or shorten its title.

I hope this may help.

thanks.

Still the same problem but it seems that ResearchGate does not care. :-(

Suddenly I am also having these problems.

I tried to switch the browser, but that is not the issue. However recently I changed to PDF/A-Standard which was accepted nicely - however currently the upload butten simply is looping...

I will try again without PDF/A only as PDF...

OK, I have tried to switch to PDF 1.7 - still looping

I tried to upload from different browsers (Opera, Firefox, Chrome) - still looping

I reduced the file from 700 KB to 320 KB (smallish sizes) - still looping...

I have same problem with PDF and Word files.. tried different browsers.. I`m an MCSE as well, so, I already tried every possible solutions..

This is at RG`s side.

But I suspect RG disallows uploading of files you prevoiusly deleted, or those having similar/ same name.. anyway, it`s just a guess..

Have you tried shortening the document name? Worked for me.

I had the same problem several times. The problem only occurred when the internet connection was too slow. I suggest using a faster internet connection for upload.

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When I can't upload onto ResearchGate (usually big files), I usually pop up to Cafe Nero and use their internet—it usually uploads fine then. Alternatively, I reduce the file size. Today, I couldn't upload a c. 60MB file. Cafe Nero is closed at the moment because of the (UK) coronavirus lockdown, so I reduced the file to 25.5, and—with a little patience—that worked fine.

The obvious inferrence is that my internet connection is not good enough to upload big files. Interestingly, however, the same c. 60MB file uploaded successfully onto the Internet Archive. Perhaps therefore there is some unresolved issue with ResearchGate's system.

When I am trying to upload an article it appears “error praising server response”. I have being trying for two days.

My case is similar to that of Nisal Gunawardane but it works for one paper finely.

In my case i gave compressed the PDF which work for me.Auwlu Sa'idu You also can try with comoressing the document.

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I am facing the same problem. Tried many times, shortened the name of the file, but apparently nothing works

I have the same problem on occasion. Academia.edu is a similar publishing site with fewer glitches.

I had the same problem as @ Alain Filhol , and it was automatically solved after a while.. now the same problem again.. but this time it happens even with microsoft word files.

Similar problem. Is there maybe a limit for uploading files?

It would be better if PDF is allowed to be shared, to avoid any error

either you reduce the size of your file or wait for network to improve in your location.

while uploading a file I am asked to provide authors.how can i do it

I also face similar problem in uploading of my research paper by clicking upload option it shows error parsing server problem

When trying to upload a full text getting "Server Error Response" any idea how to resolve it ?

I am receiving "Upload Error: Error parsing server response".

I am receiving "Upload Error: Error parsing server response".

Print it as pdf. Then upload it again.

That would work.

Same problem here: "Upload Error: Error parsing server response." And yes, it is Acrobat file (PDF).

I am also facing same "Upload Error: Error parsing server response." And yes, it is Acrobat file (PDF).