Does it depend on co-authors, journals, citations or follower? I have seen many people who has no single research paper, no citation and only one co-authorship and new-bee without a follower in RG has higher score than those with a number of papers, with citations and followers?
RG score is based on five factors namely publications in indexed journals (if the journal is not indexed, your RG score will not change substantially), questions (this is given more weightage than all other factors), answers, followers (least weightage) and recommendations (if a RG user recommends your reserch items, questions and answers, it will boost RG score a lot).
Therefore if a new user posts 50 questions and has no publications, his RG score will be more than 25 surpassing many users in RG scores. Basically, if someone is active in RG platform by asking questions and answering (indirectly promoting RG), RG score would increase exponentialy.
Usually articles (research items), citations, questions, answers, reads, projects, and recommendations
RG score is based on five factors namely publications in indexed journals (if the journal is not indexed, your RG score will not change substantially), questions (this is given more weightage than all other factors), answers, followers (least weightage) and recommendations (if a RG user recommends your reserch items, questions and answers, it will boost RG score a lot).
Therefore if a new user posts 50 questions and has no publications, his RG score will be more than 25 surpassing many users in RG scores. Basically, if someone is active in RG platform by asking questions and answering (indirectly promoting RG), RG score would increase exponentialy.
Isaac Dinaharan is quite right.
If you check the list of high-scorers provided by Shri Arvind Singh Ji:
1. Adam B. Shapiro (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Shapiro)
2. David L Morgan (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Morgan19)
3. Arvind Singh (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arvind_Singh56)
4. Rafik Karaman (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafik_Karaman)
5. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Beatrice_Ewalds-Kvist)
with scores ranging from 1123 to 486 you will find that most of them have an (roughly) average number of publications but a very high number of answers (ranging from 18.000 to 5.000) and quite a few questions (ranging from 17 to 2). So network activity is, in the end, more important than publications.
Mainly depends on : Answers, Publication in indexed journals, citation and Questions.
The major impact on RG score is of publication in high h index journal followed by answers to the questions and lastly the followers.
Generally research items, citations, questions, answers, reads, projects, and recommendations. The number of followers you have is also used to calculate your research index. Though it is a very small percentage
Thank you everyone for enlightening me.
I think its being researcher is the foremost criteria rather than discussion and expert opinoin as they stand at the bottom pyramid.
Does type of research has value in estimation of score like review article getting more point than case report and so forth.
Scoring high on RG platform needs your deep interest in this for which you are devoted to share your findings as well interact with renowned researchers of your field.
RG SCORE is used only by researchgate and they give value to publication, questions, answers and even recommendation. We should remember that researchgate is basically a social media for researchers so they want people to link and comment and read others papers. So they give certain credit for these which ultimately affects the RG score.
But truly speaking, RG score has no specific value outside of research gate. Metrics like i-10 index and h-index are considered more important among researchers.
Does the score decrease. I have found my score in decreasing trend for couple of weeks. Reet Poudel
Please just look above in the thread where you will find many answers about our (very limited) knowledge about the calulation of RG Score. And: Yes, it can decrease as it is calculated in comparison with the activities of all RG members.
Just a small piece of evidence as a follow-up to my answer to this thread of August 11 (see above as the answer by @Isaac Dinaharan to which I referred): Last week my score was raised by more than 1 point (usually it goes up by about 0,05 per week). What did I do? Did I add more publications? Were there more than the average numbers of quotations? Or more reads of my publications by RG members? By no means! The simple answer is: I (incidentally) added three answers, had 262 answer reads and received (God knows why - but many thanks to recommendators) 11 recommendations. This beautifully illustrates my point: In RG the score will, above all, reward activities within the network (whereas RG score does indeed mostly depend upon publications, reads by RG members and quotations - but not, as some keep believing, upon the status of journals in which the publications appeared).
The RG score may increase or decrease and has no implications beyond the ResearchGate environment.
The score mainly depend upon the publications, question and answers. The RG score will increase substantially if your publication is indexed by SCI and Scimago. If you actively participate in answering questions, there is also a high chance of increasing RG Score.
Dear Muhammad Wasim
basically you are prefectly right: writing answers, asking questions and receiving recommendations for your answers will boost your RG score. In fact, doing this will boost it even much more than adding dozens and dozens of publications (which I, personally, think is a shame).
The problem, however, is, that this will lead to an overabundance of meaningless questions and to an overabnundance of equally meaningless answers and to people never bothering to read the answers already given in a thread.
RG policy being what it is we (for obvious reasons, outlined in the reports Biswadeep Das
has cited) we should nevertheless try to behave responsibly. RF is not just another addendum to the endless row of social media. It is an academic network - and a useful medium to discuss academic and scientic question (with, of course, a bit of meta-reflexivity on the network and our behaviour in it thrown in - no harm in that). So we should behave here as we do in our academic work: Try to ask meaningful scientific questions (as most RG members do) and give meaningful competent answers (as most RG members do). But we should - at least in my personal opinion - by all means avoid to ask questions or write answers just for the sake of boosting our scores. Or to put it quite simply: we should try never to waste each other's time.
PS: Just to make my position clear: I am absolutely sure that Muhammad Wasim in his (now deleted) answer meant no harm. I just wanted to warn of the (certainly unwanted) consequences it might have.
Asking questions, answering, getting recommendation from RG members and uploading article in indexed journal may increase scores
Only h index is a true reflection of your research work and citations, rest indicates your activity on the platform and does not matter much.
Answering questions and getting recommendation from RG members increases your RG score more than asking questions, followers and adding research paper.
RG score basically shows how much active and popular among your research peers.
To Satyaveer Rulaniya:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_true_scientific_value_of_the_RG_score
The RG Score is calculated once a week, so if you've added publications and your score has not yet changed, please be patient. It's also relative, it can go up or down depending on the activity and scores of other ResearchGate members. This means it takes the scores and interactions of every researcher into account to give a relative rating of your contributions. To improve your RG Score:
- Share anything from negative results to raw data or full-fledged publications
- Create a project, or add an update to your existing project(s)
- Ask a question or give another researcher a helpful answer
- Follow other researchers
- Comment on and recommend your peer's research, projects, and questions
Check the link for more detailshttps://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/RG+Score#:~:text=Why%20has%20my%20RG%20Score,scores%20of%20other%20ResearchGate%20members.
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