Jeayareka Jayakumar

Reads

Reads is a simple metric designed to show you exactly how often research is being accessed on ResearchGate.

Since it can take a long time before your research gets cited, reads are a great way to see early interest in your work — from both ResearchGate members and non-members.

Your Stats tab is where you can find out how many reads your research items are getting. You can also see information about your readers by country, institution, seniority, and discipline.

Depending on your profile visibility settings, you can also see the profiles of the people who recently read your work, allowing you to connect with people who are interested in your research.

https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Reads

Citations

From your Stats tab on your profile, you can see the citations your work has received, giving you a detailed way to track your impact.

You can find out how many citations your publications on ResearchGate are getting and where they were cited. You can also see the profiles of the people who have cited you.

https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Citations

A "Read" means that someone opened the ResearchGate page about your article. A "Full-text read" means that someone has downloaded the file or had a look into it online. A citation is something quiet different. It means that someone referred to your article in his own publication. Please note also that ResearchGate is not complete in indicating citations. See the following discussions on how to increase the number of citations:

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

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

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

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-to-increase-my-citations

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_increase_the_citations_of_your_sole-author_or_multiple-authors_papers_published_at_the_Renown_Journal_in_the_field_of_your_research

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

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

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

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

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_Citation_can_be_increased_in_view_of_h-Statistics_for_a_Scholarly_article

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

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

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

https://www.researchgate.net/post/The_power_of_keywords_and_audience-centric_papers_Reflections_and_thoughts_on_number_of_citations_publishing_and_highly-impacted_journals

See also these discussions:

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

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_I_make_a_previously_published_article_book_or_book_chapter_more_visible_and_accessible2

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

And here are discussions about "missing" citations:

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

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Why_are_some_of_my_citations_not_shown2

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hello Dr Jayakymar

The last response is very technically correct. I also agree with Dr Dick that these terms have very different meanings. Citations are, obviously, much more prestigious in the academic community and, like money, I only wish I had more!

In terms of improving citations, I have said in other discussions/questions, the best way I find is to attend conferences and discuss with other researcher (s) with similar interest (s). But they might need a long time to produce a paper to cite your work. Hence, your citation rate will increase but you have t be very patient.

My number of citations suddenly change to zero from 160. Why this happened?

Same problem Ömer Faruk Uygur

The problem was solved Ömer Faruk Uygur