Dear Hashem,

Is RG score important for researchers !!!  Not sure if I have answer , i like to see it go up though :)

Upgrade : Fast route , not very clear may be make your work visible / interact / upload papers that are free for access for potential collaborators ...

While we are here , you can take a look at our earlier discussion ( Dr Khan's view)

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_the_impact_factor_metric_in_RG_has_been_disabled?_tpcectx=profile_highlights

Upload your publications and engage the RG community actively with questions of your own. Contribute answers to others' questions.

Extend your following netowrk of researcher, be active in answers and questions and uploade your contributions (papers,datasets, books,... etc).

Regards

The activity of keeping up with researchers around the world is more important than the score in the long run. However, if you want a bigger score, you can - in order of value -ask questions, answer questions and list as many projects and works you have done (from what I understand).

Dear 

RG web wrote the following on web:

The aim of the RG Score is to help you measure and leverage your standing within the scientific community. We want to provide you with a metric that is calculated based on how all of your research is received by your peers, not just the work you’ve published.

the score give activity of researchers not only for papers but for question,answers and followers.

Best regards

Dear all,

I think RG should make an effort to be taken as among academic and research sites whose measurements of scientists and scholars are taken for promotional and hiring purposes. This will increase its purpose and vitality with added values, although what it is doing is immense in making communications, exchange of ideas and posting research results  be accessible to all with no charge.   

 RG: Connect, collaborate and discover scientific publications, active in answers and questions, upload your publications.

Regards

KS Al-Niaeem

The RG score is an indication on the researcher. In my opinion I prefer RG Reach score

with RG score I measure my participation in this forum

Please have a look at the below link.

"ResearchGate: Reputation uncovered"

http://ciber-research.eu/download/Nicholas_et_al-2016-Learned_Publishing-20160617.pdf

Dear Chalamalla Srinivas

so which facter is more effective to increase the RG?

regards

Raid

Dear

RG score depend not only to your publish but also your interaction with RG members 

Thank

Marius

The last answers highlight the impotance of Publshing and Intreaction.

Dear colleagues,

I think that there is some misunderstanding about RG score. It is only measures your interaction within the site's community by uploading publications, write comments and feedbacks, ask questions and answering others. It is absolutely don't determine your "reputation" among scientists or researchers. So, you can be more active to gain higher scores. It is that simple.

Regards

SM Najim

I think the main purpose is to increase the interaction between researchers more than it is calculating the points and with it the points I think they are more dependent on publication and citation.

Dear Hashem:

I think RG Score is an interesting, original tool, which should be taken seriously by researchers, academic institutions and other organizations. I have seen it evolve in the last two years and in my opinion it keeps improving.

RG score does not reflect you publications only- but your communications among RG members, you rate of exposure of your profile and your publications, reading of your publications, your involvement in questions and answers and people upvoting or down voting your comments, number of your social friends etc. etc

It shows how relevant ones article is

Dear Maytham,

No doubt about RG can be used as a source of research by its own merit and the vast amount of scientific publications and activities it hosts. But what I said on my previous post was, that it will bring more value and strength to it, if there will be a time where its score will also used be used for employment and promotional purposes by universities and colleges, research centers and other companies who are scientifically oriented.

http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2015/12/researchgate-score-good-example-of-a-bad-metric/

Upload your researches and communicate on RG.

Presently, the fastest way to increase the RG score is to write questions and answers. However, I want that the RG score is calculated with much more weight on the quality of publications than questions and answers.

Ensure that you are active on RG by uploading your articles, asking questions and more importantly answering questions.

Dear all

The RG score is an activity indicator of a researcher on RG.

Score is important as it reflects that the achievement of Researchers.Besides this may help the likely guideline for the achievement & any down line track of researchers may help him to review his performance which is thinking & suggest the observation so that it may help him to offer the better result of his performance.

This is my personal opinion 

Dear all

RG is not important to the researcher only but also for the level of the universities

Regards

What RG score important for researchers?

It probably depends on the individual. I know in the RG eminent scientists, which, I think, are not interested RG, they are interested in them the Hirsch index. Their RG score increases! Outstanding research lead to the growth of RG score, and sometimes these studies may not be noticed. For example, ... (I will not give examples).

Hirsch Index does not necessarily reflect the value of the research (examples from the past and present did not bring). Not always! For Russian researchers, who published mostly Russian journals, the Hirsch index RG does not reflect their contribution to science. It should be noted that there are outstanding scientists whose work is "closed" and only exist in the "closed" accounts. They may know only a few people in Russia  (Sergei Korolev - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev  )    Igor Kurchatov  -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Kurchatov   ) and etc.

I note that in the Russian media discusses the question: how is it that the children and relatives of academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences becomes member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, whose h-index is equal to 1-2 or slightly above. Perhaps their talented work other than parents without anyone noticing.

Dear All

Thats true RG is not like Google Scholar.

Regards

Dear All.

Of importance to me is the influence, activities on RG has on the citizens of the global village. Contrary to what an RG member said on another thread, that, "This is just an academic exercise."

Well, I run my research company and I am particular about solutions. And solutions will not exist if their are no answers. So, for me, my participation on RG is not an academic exercise. I, like most others, need answers.

The other thing is that; any researcher in dare need of reputation should just go ahead and do a trial-run of any of his/her published works on his/her own financial initiatives, instead of waiting for a financier. This follows the basic entrepreneurial test: If you are convinced that the idea works, then test it out on your own financial effort first. And from what I see, this is soon going to be the approach for engagement. It has already started.

The following quote is from the publication referred to by < @Maytham Alabbas >.

"ReseacrchGate has the potential to upset the reputational applecart by becoming a major deliverer of scholarly reputation but is not there yet."

- Key points: ResearchGate - Reputation Uncovered, page 2.

Just like < @Dejenie A. Lakew >, I have always been of the understanding that it is good to start a process based on an idea. But it is more important to allow the process grow in response to real-life demands.

I actually searched the Net for forum of researchers some years back when I needed to join a forum of researchers. I found RG the most qualified and I joined RG. RG is very good for serious minds on real-life issues. Very often, I keep having this inner vision of RG becoming a reflection of real-life activities. But getting there is about choices.

By observing my activities on RG, my findings go along the line of < @Salah Mahdi Najim> contribution. There are other observations i made about RG Scores which do not present the practicality of real-life practices in knowledge fields. But change is the only constant in life and that life includes RG.

Thanks All.

Dear All.

The global humanity is passing through unparalleled times in history of mankind. Before the turn of the century in year 2000, it was ok to adhere strictly to rules invented by early researchers. But, after the turn of the century, some of these rules no longer proffer solutions to the challenges facing today's digital man.

Time is changing and so will ALL THINGS, including RG. I mentioned this in my last contribution. The Law is made for Man and not Man for the Law. Every innovation, mostly, inherit in part, a little of the innovator's mindset, and RG is not an exception.

What I am trying to say here is that, a system that tries to gain relevance by down-riding another one has nothing to offer. i say this in respect of the publication referenced by < @Chalamalla Srinivas > contribution with the following link: < https://www.academia.edu/2460163/Re...nd_against_the_developing_countries. Remember, I am from a developing country, Nigeria, and also a member of Academia.edu. Most of the contents in the publication are true and some of them are what I referred to in my last contribution as:

"... There are other observations i made about RG Scores which do not present the practicality of real-life practices in knowledge fields."

But rather than start using anybody's score as factor to relevance, what I do is to consider a person's work that has the most effect on persons in any community. Irrespective of whatever labels anybody wears as titles, the final judge is the person in the community. Remember, it is the Tax Payer's Money.

Also, while every academic circle, group or association is struggling to see itself become the STANDARD by which academic excellence is measured, may be, they need to see the CNN documentary titled, India 2020, in which one of the innovators said that, "India situations will only be solved by india solutions." And this applies to every community in this global village.

What is of most importance for now is to share knowledge; raise and discuss issues; and see if there is need for a new direction; and RG is doing fine in these respects for now.

Let us all remember that we have duties to perform in the different communities in which we live and being recognized from outside our communities starts by being recognized, first, in our communities. Charity begins from home.

Thanks All.

Hi , All. 

Research gate was one of the earlier academic social networks on the Web. It depends on many  parameters such as :

1- Your published publications which gain more citations,  readings and followers   .

2- Questions and answers  which gain more replays and up voting  .

3- The number of followers for your publications and projects and also for you.

4 - Your interactions with other researchers and the content you have added to your profile.

5 - The quality of the journals that you published in .

6 - The quality of the researchers  which follow you .

7 - High quality contributions .

8 - The number of people connected to your work through you or your co-authors and reach directly or indirectly . 

9 - The citations and reading for your articles .

Best regards..

I agree with Dr. Chalamalla Srinivas explanations. RG score reflects your activity and interaction with this site rather than your real scientific reputation as misunderstood by some RGers.

Regards

SM Najim

Thanks all

It can be useful to make a review of ResearchGate Score these references

Nicholas, D., Clark, D., & Herman, E. (2016). ResearchGate: Reputation uncovered. Learned Publishing, 29(3), 173-182.

Orduña-Malea, E., Martín-Martín, A., & Delgado López-Cózar, E. (2016). ResearchGate como fuente de evaluación científica: desvelando sus aplicaciones bibliométricas. El profesional de la información, 25(2), 303-310.

Yu, M. C., Wu, Y. C. J., Alhalabi, W., Kao, H. Y., & Wu, W. H. (2016). ResearchGate: An effective altmetric indicator for active researchers? Computers in Human Behavior, 55, 1001-1006.

Sincerely,

G. Ripoll

Kind regards

Joachim Neumaier

Good question.