Alot of Questions and discussions about RG score and this one of them , I wonder why some colleagues want to increase Thier scores what will they gain, what the benefits RG score
I will be honest, it did not matter much initially but then I started having fun. I love reading other colleagues’ answers, ideas, opinions and the RG score has a game-like effect— it feels good when others approve of your answers and the game goes on!
احدى الأسباب لزيادة الرغبة في ارتفاع درجات RG هو زيادة درجات تقييم الأداء في الجامعات لأغراض الترقية العلمية . اما السبب الشخصي فهو انه توجد متعة اولا في تبادل وجهات النظر ضمن RG وزيادة الدرجات تعتبر تأكيد على انه يوجد تفاعل فعلي لهذا التبادل كما أن زيادة الدرجات له شعور ممتع.
One of the reasons for the increased desire for higher RGs is to increase performance ratings in universities for scientific promotion. The personal reason is that there is fun first in the exchange of views within the RG and the increase of grades is a confirmation that there is an actual interaction of this exchange and the increase in grades has a pleasant feeling.
In my opinion, we should not be interested in increasing RG score as much as the interest in increasing the information and ideas that come from RG.The increase in RG score will come gradually through good research and participation in valuable discussions.
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I will be honest, it did not matter much initially but then I started having fun. I love reading other colleagues’ answers, ideas, opinions and the RG score has a game-like effect— it feels good when others approve of your answers and the game goes on!
I asked same question to me and the RG colleagues but didn't get a single fair reason. I have also experienced here that less people reply to technical questions; discuss more about things irrelevant to their own subject; that might not help the researchers.
I agree that more technical discussions are weighed less & sometimes a very general topic gets huge amount of attention. This is where the "context" part comes in, but I guess its difficult to measure being a very subjective factor.
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I agree with Gulzar Shah
I would also like to add that an increase in RG score leads to increase the opportunity for the other scholars beyond each discipline to read my research outcomes. My work is transdisciplinary; thus, I always wanted my works to be read by a wider science community. I realized the goal through increasing the RG score, I think.
As for technical questions, these are usually asked by students. I am always ready to respond to the best of my knowledge. But the response, even a simple thank you, I rarely get. Communicating without response is not for normal people. Moreover, the answers to most of these questions can be obtained from books. If I myself have technical issues, it is much more interesting for me to solve these myself than to organize a “public opinion poll”. As a last resort, I know specialists who can answer me in critical situations.
As for general scientific and even "life" issues, here the interaction is more active.
In general, answering the question, I do not set a goal to increase the score, it increases naturally. On the other hand, everybody can consider it as a sport, and if you are it sports, then the desire to be first is natural.
Really interesting question, RG is the gateway for learning new information and ideas, exchanging the knowledge through the scholars, where as the other social media acts as a recreational enjoyment.
They think RG as measure of their research quality which is not correct
If someone wants to help those who have concrete scientific questions, this is generosity in spreading knowledge and helping beginners to find scientific answers and progress in their work. Obviously, the RG score for those who offer such answers will increase, as a result, not as a primary goal. But if someone has set priority to giving answers of any nature, largely without any scientific support, but only to increase their "activity" on RG (e.g.: agree, following, tens thanks after each answer, other useless words etc.), this is a proof of narcissism, addiction and exaggerated self-esteem in a false way. Scientific activity on RG is indicated by many criteria and concrete results, anybody can check this openly if interested by someone’s scientific activity. So the score itself does not necessarily indicate the scientific level.
Whenever there are scores, like RG score; it feels good to have higher score, along with increase in knowledge, learning, having so much diverse opinions of intellectuals.
It gives me a motive to offer more and share ideas with researchers and learn from their experiences.
Dear colleagues thank you so much for your participations.
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Anything that is scored is interesting, and people want to score high
the most interesting is to participate in this debate to raise the level, and if in addition it would help some to improve their score ca will always be good to take.
Natural desire to excel & I feel there is nothing wrong with that
Human beings respond to behavioral psychology just like Pavlov's dog did. Like some people often checking their Facebook account to see how many likes they received, many RG members are hooked into the reward and positive reinforcement/punishment paradigm. People are excited when they see a number of reads, a number of recommendations in the past week or the person had the most reads in their entire organization! These rewards keep them hooked to looking at RG, wanting to increase their scores constantly and seeking methods to achieve the end goal. Occasionally a person may lose a portion of their points in a week due to their contributions (articles, ask/answer questions, time spent in RG) being lower than their Department members'. This usually is not a major detractor and most people do not consider that as a major form of punishment, but rather a motivating factor to do better. Thus, we are no different from Pavlov's dog in some ways.
Increased RG Score is important for certain academic institutions as part of annual scoring but it also may indicates more activity and interaction with conversations in RG
RG score refers to the member activity in researchgate options which provide valuable resources of information and discussion among members.
not see the RG score but it attract to study the interesting questions and answers
number of research articles give an idea to execute our research and get new ideas.
so we spend time to see that so automatically it incease
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