What are the features that you miss at ResearchGate?

One of the features I wish from RG is - hope it can allow RG members to download their respective answers & questions posted & articles / artifacts deposited in a word doc format. Reason being is to keep track what s/he had contributed in RG, reviewed his / her own answers or questions posted for reflection & further improvement in future. At the moment if a RG members provided too may answers or posted too many questions, it is hard to keep track except by searching through the RG website or scrolling down one by one and copy & paste which is tedious & time consuming.

May be RG has such features now that I'm not aware. In case anyone knows please feel free to share. Thanks.

What are the features that you miss at ResearchGate?

One of the features I wish from RG is - hope it can allow RG members to download their respective answers & questions posted & articles / artifacts deposited in a word doc format. Reason being is to keep track what s/he had contributed in RG, reviewed his / her own answers or questions posted for reflection & further improvement in future. At the moment if a RG members provided too may answers or posted too many questions, it is hard to keep track except by searching through the RG website or scrolling down one by one and copy & paste which is tedious & time consuming.

May be RG has such features now that I'm not aware. In case anyone knows please feel free to share. Thanks.

Yes: the Home Feed as a RSS-Feed (or similar) which can be downloaded via Thunderbird ... That would save much time which I could 'invest' in answering some more questions - it would also a benefit for RG and for other researchers!

Best Regards

Andreas

Now Impact factor is missing, though it is quite cumbersome to maintain such values

Impact factor missing and hidden suggestions for improving our points which is yet clear

Dear Zeeshan Hamid,

I think that RG should have the function to create research groups like Facebook.

Thank you for asking the question in the exchange of knowledge among researchers around the world

I resonate with Han Ping Fung. In addition, I wish there is a feature that would trigger a previously asked question once it begins to appear as a new question.

How about being ale to generate our personal website using our available data and statistics in RG.

Citations and RG scores (aka IF) be extended and plotted over years graphically since the beginning of our registration in RG (not merely on a weekly basis)

In addition to the missing summed-up IF of a researcher (which was available in earlier times, so it cannot be a technical problem not to show it), it would be nice to have clearer rules for the RG factor ... and if they finally managed to solve the huge problem of not recognizing most of the papers of certain universities (resulting, e.g., in our university apparently having only 35 papers, which is less than I had this year). If it is really too much work to count the number of papers on the contributions page, such a clearly error-prone number should simply be deleted.

RG administrators would factor your valuable suggestions Prof. Andrea. I agree with your submission. Best regards

Dickson Adom

Through the exchange of information among researchers greetings

I think the scientific research questions should be allowed on RG rest to be avoided.

Dear Zeeshan,

See the link below for more opinions:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Which_ResearchGate_features_you_find_most_useful_and_how_could_they_be_further_improved

Dr. Han,

It is a good suggestion if RG consider it. Thank you for sharing!

Dr. Nada,

I agree with you, unfortunately, after few year, any online social platform get people, who love to spoil it with irrelevant things. It is very difficult to protect online social platforms from spam.

In addition, to all those features mentioned above, I think RG should allow us to delete messages. And this feature should be on the top priority to implement. Most of the times, inbox is filled with spam messages that cannot be deleted.

I would like to be able to sort my list of followers into area, so that I could share only articles which would be of the interest of some. And sometimes I want to find from my followers who may be working with one specific subjects. I can finally find someone, but not someone who has already some contact with me. Also, If I try to send one article to the same followers, it could inform me that text was once sent to the person. Today, they offer some 20 people and the chance to forward the text more than once to the same person is very big.

I agree with Zeeshan opinion

No Zeeshan , I am okay with stuff !!!!

I mean , I write because it is a my happy place the rest doesn't matter :)

In addition to publication history, review history can also be added.

RG can be improved in following ways:

1-by adding the possibility of automatic multiple downloads (like science direct)

2- Removing the downvote button or at least prohibiting multiple downloads in the same question by one person.

3- checking and Removing the duplicate (or very similar) questions by editors.

Not only the Impact factor Journals (of Thomson Reuters), many other journals are having some Impact Points of Research Gate.

RANKING OF JOURNALS and their IMPACT POINTS given by Research Gate may be made available to all Research Gate members.

I agree and recommend the answers of Dr. Mutasem Z. Bani-Fwaz and Dr. Aparna Sathya Murthy

hello

There are disadvantages and unfairness in this program as being unfair in giving weekly grades

regards

The main feature that I miss at ResearchGate is the cumulative citations of scopus and of Google Scholar.

Computation of RG score should be made clear.

Well explained.... RG Community

I would say that I agree with you all and complete:

a) Scores should avoid electronically people that clearly repeats questions;

b) Scores should avoid (by editors/revisors) people that clearly make questions with no research purpose since the simplicity of the question and the area not related to the researches published turns clear;

c) Managing the Followers and Followings should be incremented. It´s not easy to directionate questions to followers by country, by area or by the university, and it would be useful.

1. Citations by scoups and google scholar.

2. Explain RG score calculation

3. Journals impact factor

Regards

I get constant items in my question feed that are from different disciplines completely. I miss the ability to filter our irrelevant questions from my feed.

I completely agree with Michael Marek. Moreover I am still not clear how RG calculates individual scores. Ir is sometimes frustrating..

I would like to have a feature which would cluster or colour-code researchers in similar fields of study or with similar research interests.

Researcher's Impact Factor. I would be nice to have it back.