- I have observed the mutual back-scratching reflex of Recommendations at RG. Recently, one member announced that he had 2000 recommendations. Others may have more.
- As I have asked earlier, is a Recommendation a nano-Nobel Prize?
- What is the value of empty cross -Recommendations in debates?
- Those who recommend a question without posting empty reflection-less responses are the core of RG.
- Recommendations at RG are being used to massage the ego.
- Very few females are first responders or traders in recommendations. The female psyche is careful, cautious, and perhaps more reflective.
- Is, then, trading recommendations nothing but an aggressive alpha male domination pattern?
- Is a recommendation a substitute for publishing a research paper?
- I yearn for the day when a research platform such as RG will remove names and photographs of members, and, replace them with random computer generated permanent passwords like alphanumeric codes.
- Ego and super-ego will dissolve, dust to dust, ashes to ashes!!
- Perhaps it is too early and too radical for the foreseeable future.
- Many questions are phrased poorly or very tentatively, and may be difficult to respond to correctly.
- We should have a rule tht the first responder must only ask a question which seeks to gain more detail or clarity...
- An early responder may be giving an preliminary answer to get other readers to respond.
- A recommendation is merely to indicate that the person who answered gave an answer that was deemed helpful to the reader.
- I suspect that females are also the smaller population on ResearchGate, and are more likely to pose a question than to answer.
- Recommendations cannot be traded for higher posts in academia!
- ResearchGate is a way of contacting people with similar interests or who are doing interesting work, but is also a way of procrastinating from writing the research report.
- There is sadly a recent trend to post empty answers like "I am following this"!
- There exist recommendation cartels.
A recommendation often is a gesture or goodwill only. Of course this is not the strict meaning an scientific recommendation should be, but there are many similar transformation in the working system RG, so that RG perhalps can use as a platform of finding contacts to other people but there is no high claim to state.
do not take it seriously, it is gamified , I also feel sometimes recommendations are baseless
There are several reasons for recommending a paper/question/ project.
1. The paper/question/project is good and deserve to be recommended.
2. The person is new and seniors want to encourage the young researcher.
3. The recommender want attention of the new researcher. He/she (the recommender) want to attract attention of the new researcher.
4. If a senior float a paper/question/project, the junior want a social linkage and recommend paper/question/project of his/senior.
I think, there is nothing wrong to recommend a paper/question/project and it shouldn't be taken that serious. Let a researcher use his/her right to recommend any thing that he/she want to recommend. It shouldn't be linked with the quality of a research paper/question/project.
Really it's a good subject for discussion thanks @ Dr. Vinod Kumar Gupta for the great question. In my opinion, a recommendation is given for a specific idea, an article or response or question. we give a recommendation for the shown the particularity of an idea. However, actually, many recommendations are given for anything...
this web is a area for exchange between scholars must be good oriented.
- Many questions are phrased poorly or very tentatively, and may be difficult to respond to correctly.
- We should have a rule tht the first responder must only ask a question which seeks to gain more detail or clarity...
- An early responder may be giving an preliminary answer to get other readers to respond.
- A recommendation is merely to indicate that the person who answered gave an answer that was deemed helpful to the reader.
- I suspect that females are also the smaller population on ResearchGate, and are more likely to pose a question than to answer.
- Recommendations cannot be traded for higher posts in academia!
- ResearchGate is a way of contacting people with similar interests or who are doing interesting work, but is also a way of procrastinating from writing the research report.
- There is sadly a recent trend to post empty answers like "I am following this"!
- There exist recommendation cartels.
We must ONLY recommend when we think that the contributions made by our colleague are worth the answers sought by the scholarly questioner.
"Let a researcher use his/her right to recommend any thing that he/she want to recommend. It shouldn't be linked with the quality of a research paper/question/project."-- simply amazing post by Nafees Mohammad
If quality is to be sacrificed, what is then left for postings at RG? This is not a newspaper or a vanity / social magazine or a Facebook / Twitter like arena where empty scientifically baseless comments might be posted (likes/dislikes).
"The recommender want attention of the new researcher. He/she (the recommender) want to attract attention of the new researcher. -- another amazing post by Nafees Mohammad.
Again I am simply amazed. Why in tarnation whould an established researcher wish to attract attention of a novice? Is RG a social site for attraction? Is it a super-or virtual Mall where we might have coffee and exchange pleasantries or muffins over coffee? The junior researcher will gravitate to you through the value of your contribution to science. Of course, if you have nothing to contribute, that is another ball game.
RG is not a social site but a forum for serious discussion--as far as I understand the raison d'etre of this platform. Let us not lower the dignity of RG and caricature ourselves by foolish overtures such as senseless Recommendations and quicksilver responses without reflection. The only reflection frequent responders do is to open the question and hurriedly read it. There is an orgaistic pleasure in seeing your own face and name in print by discharging first (if you know what I mean by the discharge), but this is taking things to a ridiculous level.
Some questions on RG are crafted with care, to extend mental horizons, to push the borders of comprehension, to instil a sense of humility by facing what we do not know, to keep the value of the term "intellectual" intact, to advance learning in a didactic question-answer fashion, to keep the caravan of life-long accumulation of knowledge intact, to transfer knowledge into wisdom, to possess the capacity to develop ESP and clairvoyance through studied silence...Most responder-scientists on RG would prefer to die rather than acknowledge that they do not know some aspect of something--a natural human behaviour couched by the rhetoric spilled over in haste in the columns of RG. He who rides a tiger cannot dismount --old Indo-Chinese saying. If you dismount from the tiger of partial or assumed knowledge, the tiger of ignorance will devour you.
I have no hope for this overbearing madding and maddening jostling group of "scientists". Science is far far away from din, requires solitude for contemplation..but who am I to make a point, any point...
It is basically on personal interest that varies from one person to another. It can't be generalized in any way. It is also relative. What could worth recommending may not be so to another. It is a personal issue.
In my opinion, recommendation is simply a gesture of feeling good with the answer. I think it has no meaning more than that. But many of our colleagues simply write following and other colleague is going to recommend that one also. It's a poor show at all. We must recommend good question and answer so that we can have healthy environment and platform to discuss something fruitful.
Good question has been raised by VK Gupta Ji!
recommendation always indicate the agreement with the answer, good answer of the question, good idea shared by the RG member. It is just token of appreciation for the answer.
@Olutosin
In science, NOTHING IS PERSONAL. This is a scientific forum, not Facebook or Twitter with likes and dislikes.
I don't see any new insights. The basic idea of an answer to the question: To click "recommend" is the consequence of suggestive offers of RG to so. It is in many respect the wrong way to make mediocre studies better.
Dear Vinod Kumar Gupta,
You have picked half of my comment. It was just the concluding part.
I have given various reasons of "recommendation". You have ignored those reasons.
@ Nafees
It shouldn't be linked with the quality of a research paper/question/project.
See, Nafees, this is how you conclude the comment.
Now, I respect your comment as I would any opinion from any other RG member.
Now, it is upto you to explain how you would bring quality into RG posts/comments/recommendations. Or should we leave the whole issue just as it is? Please reply in detail.
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