Dear @Mayadhar Barik.

It is your opinion. I respect him.

But these systems can not be compared.

RG - a social network for scientists.

G - is a search engine with elements scientometric base.

I prefer RG to Google Scholar, too. The reason is that RG has many functions not contained in Google Scholar, such as putting sources of publications according to different categories, having discussion with other researchers, etc.

Dear Tatsuo

you are right , thank you

Thanks for sharing. 

The purposes of these two sites are different. Each has got its own features and benefits. Therefore, no preference between them can be sought. 

Ok Faramarz thank you

both had to benefit

google scholar

Both RG and google

Thanks for interesting topic  sharing. 

Both RG and Google RG is the group of scientist

ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.ResearchGate is built by scientists, for scientists.It started when two researchers discovered first-hand that collaborating with a friend or colleague on the other side of the world was no easy task. Founded in 2008 by physicians Dr. Ijad Madisch and Dr. Sören Hofmayer , and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher , ResearchGate today has more than 11+ million members. We strive to help them make progress happen faster.

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

I use both, but sometimes some articles on Google come with reading fees; I haven't been charged for downloads from RG yet.

I have using both but cannot decide which one is better...As some has said each one of this has  its own advantages...

Dear Saeed Al Rashid,

I agree with you.

Regards, Shafagat

Dear Prem,

Thanks for good info.

These are two different systems.

I would not compare them.

Therefore, I choose both RG and google.

@Vyacheslav Lyashenko Sir i am preferring RG first then G.

I agree with the author of question

Dear @Mayadhar Barik.

It is your opinion. I respect him.

But these systems can not be compared.

RG - a social network for scientists.

G - is a search engine with elements scientometric base.

I think both

Dear RG colleague

Thank you  

What you are preferring researchgate or google scholar?

I prefer both whereby each of them have their own strengths that I can leverage.  You can refer to the following link on each of their strength as well as other resources.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/03/04/academic-profile-services-many-mirrors-and-faces-for-a-single-ego/

I think Google scolar is better than research gate

Dear Arindam

why you are thinking that google scholar better than RG

Regards

Goggle scholar is a user friendly tool and the scholarly articles in all languages can be indexed and updated by the authors. Answering the question which tool is better for providing the a complete set of citing literature, not only may depend on the subject and publication date but also even the language of articles. 

Hello Saeed,

Both of them are imporant, since ther provide full access to researches in order to help other researchers in whole world.

Regards.

Saeed,

Surely the answer depends on why one uses each of them, and for me they're very different:

- GS I use primarily for checking refs, occasionally for citations, and sometimes to obtain copies of papers. To me it's mainly an adjunct to my spare-time academic copyediting. Maybe I'm missing some other aspects of G-S?

- RG is quite different: a chance to discuss and sometimes raise questions of interest. The Scores, for what they're worth (not much), also interest me as a basis for comparison and sometimes to get an indication of who's strongly followed, and therefore probably worthwhile myself following too.

A more appropriate comparison might be R-G vs Academia.edu - again R-G wins in most respects, for me.

However, on the downside, I am becoming a bit concerned that R-G is trying to make too many cross-links between researchers - I'm starting to get emails about people I'm unaware of who've commented on something below my radar...

Hope this contributes usefully 

Paul

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature. Its index includes most peer-reviewed online academic journals and books, conference papers, theses and dissertations, patents, etc.

ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

Each one, therefore, has different purposes.

 Ok Sir : I do agree with you.

Thanking you for this statement.

Dear RG Colleagues

First thank you for all your comments, as I see the RG  give us to discuss any problem or any questions we need , that is not in google scholar.

Visibility and reproducible in RG not in G. 

I dedicate much more time to RG that in GS. The possibilities of RG are increasing while GS is more limited to citations and titles of publications. But both have its function always improvable.

Dear,

I prefer RG because we can exchange messages directly with the participants!

I prefer both because they are not of same kind.Google Scholars automatic gives your list of papers and citations. RG provides very late. RG is more interactive is useful.

Dear friend 

The research gate is find place to me. Because it is well come to all scientist who have different ideas about the nature.  I hope   research gate will improve and it will gives some validation to our works according to some scientific frame work. I am a man find trouble to publish things in to journals, then the Research gate provide me nice opportunity to publication thing. Whatever the frame work    I like  to be  in research gate .

Thank you

Dear Friend,

 Google only give us a probable glimpse... on the other hand RG is giving  the best place to share our views and it shows the different scientific works around us.

All,

Casual observation: While some, like Zainab above,* are making valuable additional contributions, it saddens me to realise that quite a few contributions to this thread are merely repeating the essences of contributions made a little earlier in this thread.

I've noticed much the same phenomenon in some other R-G Answer sequences.

Stack exchange, by contrast, does at least have the benefit of moderators who eliminate "me too" contributions, though I would never want R-G to start down that route.

Hoping this is taken in the spirit in which it was intended: improvement of the quality of R-G.

Paul

* Later edit: when I first posted this, Zainab's contribution appeared to be immediately above mine; now it's showing as about 15 hours prior to this one 

For me RG it's better ... Research Gate it's a very relevant tool for researchers ... 

Dear Colleagues,

I prefer Researchgate, because more discussions are going to research,lot of inputs are coming day by day.

Dear Brenda

Thank you 

Thanx

RG then S equally important but they have own limitations.

Dear Mayadhar

you are right , thank you 

Dear

I prefer RG due the possibility to exchange with other authors.

Thank

Marius

Dear Marius

Thank you 

Dear , Saeed Al Rashid  , both of them ( Research gate and google scholar ) are very good , but research gate gives you more space of freedom to discus other researcher in their opinions , objects , researches and other things.

Best regards

Dear Yehya

Thank you very much 

regards 

Research gate is better as it allows better communication between researchers. However; i think Google scholar shows better citatiin results. Both could be used

Dear  Haroon Rashid

Thank you 

Dear Dr. Saeed

I prefer ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a social network site for academics to create their own profiles, list their publications and interact with each other. Like Academia.edu, it provides a new way for scholars to disseminate their publications and hence potentially changes the dynamics of informal scholarly communication.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259583165_ResearchGate_Disseminating_Communicating_and_Measuring_Scholarship

Regards

KS Al-Niaeem

Article ResearchGate: Disseminating, Communicating, and Measuring Scholarship?

Dear Khalidah

I agree with you , thank you

regards 

I Prefer google scholar

Dear Suzan , thank you for your comment but why you are preferring google scholar.

regards 

Saeed 

Need visibility and helps to Society. Again plus point of RG having well statistics. 

Dear all

Lately I think researchgate started to introduce a very new and recent published papers which we couldn't find it in google scholar. So, I prefer researchgate.

Regards

Dear Miqdam

you are right , thank you 

regards 

I would go for both based on what I am looking for. There are articles that are not found on google scholar but when searched on research gate, they are easily found. and vise versa.

Dear Agevi

Thank you

Regards

I prefer ResearchGate because it is more important than any scientific another site

Dear RG Colleagues

Both sites important in the presentation of scientific output to the researchers, but I see that research gate site more inclusive from site google scholar .

RG is interactive with citations and score. GS is very primitive

Dear all,

Following my earlier post on this valuable question (p. 4), and acknowledging that there are still a few useful additional points being made:

Nevertheless, I now have to ask - What is the value of dozens of contributions repeating what are essentially no more than "me too" points?

Many such contributions are being upvoted even when they add no new  information.

Are we all merely 'gaming' the system, and thereby devaluing upvotes of any meaning at all? 

If you support this viewpoint, please add a vote NOT to this one, but instead to my 2nd post in the middle of page 4 (posted Dec 7th, 3 days before this), so it might reach the posts at the start of these answers (It rapidly gained 4 upvotes initially, but with most contributors now clearly not reading earlier posts, is otherwise unlikely to be considered any more).

Paul ('appalled' - but don't take any of this too seriously)

PS If a survey were needed, then I suggest one should be posted as such. 

Dear Lewis

A good, new question!

As I understand it, GS is not a means of direct communication between users, but rather a way of searching the academic literature, and via e.g. Harzing's Publish or Perish software, a way to check citations (including ones own).

As far as choosing a way to communicate directly with others about research, then alternatives include Academia.edu (A-E, rarely mentioned here) and Stack Exchange (S-E), depending on subject. Academia.edu is more about posting papers for others to see (a bit like arXiv.org - mainly maths and sciences - but with much wider coverage) but I've found it doesn't seem to emphasize the instant interactivity with other researchers of R-G or S-E. 

Personally, I still prefer R-G over A-E.

Stack Exchange often digs out much 'deeper' responses (lots of 'Aspie' grad students and computer programmers), if it covers your areas of interest, but is more restricted in some ways - no attachments, and as my earliest post on this thread indicated (p. 3), is moderated, not always for the better. However, it does rate posts, so good ones rise more clearly than in R-G.

There's also Quora, for questions and answers, but I find that overly moderated and while it attracts some serious responses from academics and journalists who know their stuff, in many areas it devolves into a shouting match (e.g questions relating to China and human rights). I found it tedious to sign up to, initially, but that may have changed.

In conclusion: I use R-G mostly, and StackExchange for deeper maths & science topics, while G-S is invaluable for academic copyediting and proofreading. 

Hope this helps (and now I've turned it into a mini-review - others too) - Paul

http://www.harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish

https://www.academia.edu/

http://stackexchange.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Exchange

https://www.quora.com/

https://arxiv.org/

Dear Lewis

Thank you for answer

Dear Paul

Thank you for answering Dr. Lewis

I prefer RS than google scholar. In case of journal research and citation, i prefer google scholar.

GS is a social networking platform and help each other with literature and their experience..

Dear Manvendra

Can you tell me please, in what sense do you consider GS a social networking platform? 

I've found it (only) to be a repository of publications. Hugely valuable and useful, but if you wish to have 'direct' e-contact any other researcher, surely one has to find another platform to effect that contact?

Or, does it have a mechanism to let researchers contact each other - which I've not seen so far. For example - could I have reached you via GS to discuss this very point?

Regards - Paul

Ok you right Sir. 

Thanx

Dear Mayadhar

It's not clear whom you're addressing.

In any event, may I suggest that mere agreement/thanks (or the converse) are better made through private messaging or even via up(down) voting, rather than by adding yet another post that doesn't extend the topic of the discussion?

Regards - Paul

@Paul

Just noticed that the mail option of RG is missing ?!

I wanted to mention this option; I used it quite often to send scanned-in copies of publications to those who asked for those copies that I could not put at the site here because of propriety reasons of the publisher.

I also used it for direct communication when the subject was not fit as an entry in a question. The optionwas also used by students to approach me directly with a specific question or job application

Apparently this mail option has been removed, but since when?

@Harry

While I wouldn't normally send a personal message in a post (which I've complained about myself, in this very thread), in this instance I think it's justified to let you know, in reply to yours above, that I believe the messaging is still working.

Please let me know if you don't receive an RG message from me, with an attachment, sent two minutes ago.

Regards - Paul 

For me, both have proved to be useful. Google Scholar is a huge database which works like a library. However, RG provides the opportunity to join the scientific community more effectively by communicating real persons not only their publications.

Regards

SM Najim

RG is more user friendly

RG colleagues 

Thank you for your nice discussions

regards 

Well come

RG is more useful and help us to contact each other easely

Dear Zaroug

you are right 

Thank you

regards 

Greetings,

Regarding the citation purpose, I have some citation in the google scholar are not available in researchgate and vicevers.

Best Regards

Dear Aladeen

In Google scholar , all  citations are calculated in all journals that are founded on google but in RG citations just  in limited journal calculated ( not fake journals). 

hope you got this idea

regards

The two are working perfectly for me

Dear Oluwafemi 

Thank you

Both are OK for me

Thanking you for this comment Sir.

OK Sir 

Dear Chalamalla

Thank you

Best Regards 

Each one of them has its disadvantages, for me the two are complementary.

Fo me, both the sites can be differentiated in these lines: researchgate can be said social networking site for researchers and Google scholar is a search engine for researchers.

The interactive dialogue between the researchers in different parts of the globe is possible on RG whereas GS has no such interactive aspect.

Sometimes when I answer a question the immediate response encourages and motivates. It also gives a feeling that someone on the other end of the globe is responding. It feels nice and human. 

Dear Kolita,

On what evidence do you base your judgements?

Of course, these services - like all real-world systems - will eventually be transformed or die.

But to say "Very soon one will take the lead and other will have a natural death." suggests that you view the death of one as being a result of the rise of the other, i.e. a competitive process.

Since they barely overlap, as described ad nauseam in many of the posts above, I find it difficult to see why one should be considered as potentially supplanting the other...

Regards - Paul

Dear Kolita,

Word and Wordperfect are both the same tyoe of text-document program; (I worked in a software house that was developing one of the first-ever word processing packages, in 1977.)

Lotus 123 & Excel are both spreadsheets. (I taught spreadsheet-use - among other things - for over a decade during one period of a varied career).

Therefore I am qualified to assert that one of your software examples could displace the other as they were doing essentially identical tasks, in trivially different ways. (Arguably, MS Office won not because of any software improvement but more as the MS Office applications were offered as package of programs that inter-worked, allowing ease of copying between e.g. the word processor and the spreadsheet. 

GS and RG are nowhere near as similar to each other as your software application examples.

GS is essentially a bibliographic lookup system, which I still use extensively when editing academic documents - but I am unable to use it to contact another researcher. With GS, papers are often unavailable or lie behind a pay-wall. 

RG, on the other hand, I can use to discuss research-related matters person to person, and visible to a whole research community.. Access to research papers is much freer on RG than GS, and bibliographic information on research papers is only a secondary function of RG.

Note, also, how many complaints there are on RG as to papers not being recognised or their numbers of citations being close to the numbers that e.g. Harzing's "Publish or Perish" software [link below] can locate.from GS.

Even if RG could match GS on the bibliographic side, unless GS could also take on the researcher-to-researcher communication function, it still wouldn't compete.

I find myself using RG much more and in more ways than GS, I would not want to have to rely on either one alone as the two are largely complementary, so neither is likely to be displaced by the other. 

One last - perturbing - thought: If Google/Alphabet took over ResearchGate, and merged it with GS, then we would see both transformed; but I don't trust that the result would necessarily be an improvement. 

Apart from the immediately-preceding speculation, I'm largely repeating what's been written further above, many times. So if you are still not convinced, I suggest you read some of the more informed of the earlier posts in this thread (if you can get past the "me too " and only "thanks" contributions).

Regards - Paul

Dear All

Happy new year and merry christmas.

Both engines are good but lately Researchgate come over google in publication search due to its increasing base.

Regards