In my opinion,for being an active RG member, not only I should try to improve my knowledge in my field, but also it is prominent to enhance my knowledge in other domains. I believe that Q&A can be beneficial for me and other RG members in this issue.
We may learn a lot being an active at RG network. We do share, we do exchange ideas, we do get advices, we do learn from each other, we do develop creative thinking through questions and answers, as well as by posting feedback to publications, comments... By means of actual projects, we learn about activities of other researchers, their research interest, the latest research results...
I have found some fine researchers for collaboration, which may be seen at my home page.
I am a retired researcher and mostly interested in Questions and Answers at RG. From these I can learn the topics and problems researchers in different countries are presently much concerned with and what principles and philosophy they have about research. I also learn to my joy that some of the post-prints of my papers published in the past with my coauthors get a number of "read" counts. This provides me the impetus for putting post-prints of the other contributions presently listed without full-text.
Interaction with great scholars through our questions and answers to some questions enables us a kind of fellowship.
In my opinion,for being an active RG member, not only I should try to improve my knowledge in my field, but also it is prominent to enhance my knowledge in other domains. I believe that Q&A can be beneficial for me and other RG members in this issue.
In addition - IMPORTANTLY: communicating through RG - rejecting political disagreements between our countries - we find colleagues many of which become our good friends
Best Regards, Leonid
What do we learn as being an active RG member?
My learning includes the following:
An area I'm not learning is seeing anonymous downvoting on some topics without clarification - it is a small disturbance I learn to ignore.
Thank you very much, Dr. Han Ping Fung, for sharing your interesting view about the benefit of being an active RG member. I agree absolutely with your thoughts. Further, seeing anonymous downvoting on some topics without clarification is really disturbing as it does not add anything to our understanding of the topic.
RG is a large resource of researches. Many times I searched for articles in google scholar and in other database and I did not find a full-text article. But when I search that article in RG, I could find it. Therefore, I can recommend RG as a main data base.
I utterly concur with Prof. Mahfuz Judeh. "RG is a large resource of researches."
That is very true dear @Mushtaq. You are an active member of scientific community via RG, as retired scientists are very experienced scientists who share their knowledge with others.
Dear @Mahamad, this is very good scientific papers about RG and its members' activity.
ResearchGate: An effective altmetric indicator for active researchers?
"As research performance becomes increasingly important for academic institutions in competition for rankings, student recruitment, and funding, many performance indicators have been developed to measure various aspects of research performance. ResearchGate combines bibliometrics and altmetrics to create a more comprehensive performance measure for researchers and institutions. The ResearchGate score, the flagship indicator calculated by an undisclosed algorithm, is a metric that measure scientific reputation. In this research, ResearchGate metrics are firstly compared with those that Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings to assess the quality of UK universities and global universities respectively. This study then utilizes correlation analysis to examine whether ResearchGate metrics demonstrate effectiveness on the researcher level in comparison with SciVal metrics. For this research, 300 ResearchGate members from the supply chain management field were selected. The results provide empirical evidence that demonstrate that the ResearchGate score can be an effective indicator for measuring individual researcher performance..."
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0747563215302223
As an active member of RG, I personally feel that it is the junction of knowledge all throughout the world indiscriminate of caste, creed, religion and even nation's border. We could learn everything from the experts whatever we wish to and most importantly the answers come from their practical experiences which is true and evidenced by scientific publications.
Moreover, another important thing is that the we can get the advices of those senior most scientist's who have contributed their entire life towards research & development.
Dear Alam,
As an active RG member, I get opportunity to share and exchange my scientific ideas with scientists/researchers from across the world. Such interaction is very useful & satisfying in my professional career. RG is a platform wherefrom I get easy access to published as well as unpublished works of other members. Instant solution to some research related problems encountered in works may be found from RG friends. RG has given us scope to foster an international fraternity of researchers.
I really agree with the point of views of all the active member of RG. I would like to thank Prof. Ljubomir Jacić for sharing the links titled "ResearchGate: An effective altmetric indicator for active researchers?". Further, I appreciate the opinion given by Prof. Dilip Kumar Kundu.
Many many thanks to all the experts who are sharing their opinion regarding the benefits of being an active RG member.
Usually we have some idea about our domain in which we do our research work but being an active member of RG we can learn more about the other domains. And if we have some doubts in our domain itself then those can also be clarified by asking questions here in RG, which will help in development of our domain knowledge and interact with other researchers and try to gain some extra information.
I think that with the pass of the time, more work is accumulated. If this time is rested of more important activities this would be a bad business. The prix is a score, but one can learn a few while.
The most important think I get help and suggestions from researchers if I ask any questions and also can get their papers which may not be obtained from my country. Most of the requested papers I got from here.
Besides, I can know what type of researchers are reading my papers and showing interests to my papers. This encourages me to carry out further research on it.
I agree strongly with the insightful comments of the colleagues.
For me, the most important thing is to be together, especially in the Q&A section, either agreeing or disagreeing.
Besides, the pros, for all of us, merit the attempt.
I have learned a lot from RG, but I will point out a few. Indeed, I have learned how to handle rejection (I.e., to ''reject a rejection'') that is biased when I receive such from an editor. I have learned how to initiate collaboration with people researching in other countries. I have also learned how diverse people's opinion can be, especially when answering questions.
What I learn is that without work never is built, even the virtual reputation.
RG offers a chances to acquire a new knowledge, ir raises our general experience, it improves our communication skills, it brings help sometimes, ....
The latest work of the peers, share and collaborate the knowledge and research. Comes to know your strength and weakness.
I fully agree with Prof. Mittal, thanks for sharing your opinion on the thread.
RG is an additional channel for learning about research related to a member's interest.
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