why the score value in research gate depresses with weekly updated, sometime?
This is occurs with me despite I added more researches and more activity!
I think it takes into account, the activities of other researchers too and your level of interaction
Why has my RG Score decreased or not changed?
The RG Score is calculated once a week, so if you've added publications and your score has not yet changed, please be patient. It's also relative, it can go up or down depending on the activity and scores of other ResearchGate members. This means it takes the scores and interactions of every researcher into account to give a relative rating of your contributions.
To improve your RG Score:
- Share anything from negative results to raw data or full-fledged publications
- Create a project, or add an update to your existing project(s)
- Ask a question or give another researcher a helpful answer
- Follow other researchers
- Comment on and recommend your peer's research, projects, and questions
The RG score is a relative score. Therefore, this takes the scores and interactions of every researcher into account when producing a relative rating of our contributions.
If our contributions are less than the average of all authors that week, our RG Score could decreases.
https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/RG+Score
Once the RG score is relative to the scores of other researchers on researchgate, the RG score, fluctuates based on the performances of all other researchers in the researchgate platform.
I was amazed to know that sometimes RG score decreases, I found it happens due to relative scoring system. Thanks for this discussion.
I have attached a screenshot of the respective RG score of two separate profiles:
Profile 01: Total score 5.92
Total Research Interest: 158.4
Citations: 45
Recommendations: 92
Reads: 9,713
Profile 02: Total score 10.66
Total Research Interest: 119.8
Citations: 47
Recommendations: 52
Reads: 3,080
Can anyone please enlighten me actually how this RG score works? Please check and compare the scores of two separate profiles. You will also see relevant criteria for RG calculation. Only the two additional citations making that difference?
I am not sure how is that calculated! And what factors have made this difference?!
I added two new recently published articles in reputed journal around two weeks ago, but RG score not changed.
In research gate, the most important thing is to exchange ideas, and interact with new members
Interacting with other members will significantly increase the RG score
I agree. Often people ask questions with to real.relevance but only to I ncrease scores.
I had a decrease in my RG score this week. It is sometimes difficult to understand. However, I think it is due to inactiveness in contributing to the platform.
Researchgate score depends on many variables i.e. your publication, followers. questions asked, answers, etc. In general, we can say, it shows your activeness on this research social media platform. If your activities go down on Researchgate, the score is slightly reduced.
What the Research Interest score doesn't include
To make Research Interest scores meaningful to our members, we decided to exclude certain types of data:
- Reads by people who are not ResearchGate members By only measuring interest from scientists that have logged in to ResearchGate, we can provide the 'who' behind the metrics, a key part of understanding how an author's work is being received.
- Multiple reads and recommendations by a researcher in a single week A researcher interacting multiple times with the same research within a short period of time doesn't represent an increase in interest, but leaves the score more open to abuse.
- Interactions from bots, crawlers and other automated systems Our bot detection system is constantly monitoring abnormalities so that we can react quickly to any irrelevant or fraudulent activity. You can also send feedback to our support team if you suspect any unusual activity in your stats
it takes the scores and interactions of every researcher into account to give a relative rating of your contributions.
It depends on your performance on the group during the week, I have experienced decrease in RG score too.
I can't entirely agree with many of you. I have seen many people who never made any interaction with any of the researchers, but still, they have excellent scores. Only they have added research publications. Sometimes, it isn't easy to understand the algorithms/metrics working behind this.
Dear researcher
May I know the purpose of the question?
Why are you asking this question here? Is there any benefit from the scientific side?
Greetings to you
Abbas Thajeel Alsahlanee , here research community are trying to understand the algorithm used to calculate the RG score. Coming to your question, these metrics (i.e. number of citation, H-index, I-10 index and RG score) became important criteria for young researchers to get the academic position in top schools.
Yes, I agree with what Nitin Tiwari ji has mentioned. Nowadays these metrics are really very much essential if you are working as a faculty member, scientist you need it. If you want to apply for some senior position or for a project, the organization where you are applying will check your research productivity by looking at various metrics such as the number of citations, H-index, I-10 index, and RG score), google scholar score, etc. This is the main reason behind the understanding algorithm. I hope now many of our RG fellows will understand why Nitin Tiwari ji has asked this question among RG Fellows.
Kunwar Singh thank you for your recommendation. Actually, Luma M. Ahmed asked this question. I was just trying to explain it through my knowledge.
After I have done many searches to find the solution to this issue, I find the following three major influential factors:
- The RG Score measures scientific reputation based on how your work is compared with your peers.
- You will not lose your activities such as citations, numbers of questions or solutions, numbers of different reads.
- The activities of the other participants will be increased day by day and you will be compared by the total number of these contributions.
Based on the aforementioned points, the RG Score is relatively measured in comparison with other researchers. It is a relative rating of your contributions in comparison with the others. You will not lose the number of reads, recommendations, answers, questions, etc. But, the other researchers also keep working.
In other words, your score is like a SharePoint from the total number of contributions that may go down relative to the others.
Hence, if you don't make new contributions your RG score will be decreased day by day.
From my point of view, ResearchGate (RG) is the best attractive academic social networking portal for the scientific community. In practice, RG is one of the biggest social media networks for the scientific community. It is a platform and a gateway for sharing information and experiences between scientists, experts, researchers, and practitioners. Hence, I am grateful to the network opportunities offered by RG for having this access to a broad range of researchers, papers, projects, questions, and discussion threads that otherwise I can't find. In a nutshell, ResearchGate (RG) is a kind of social media with a strong academics/research emphasis.
But, let me point to the following issue. Recommend, Follow, Download an article is just social interaction. Despite it helps to increase the RG scores, it reflects neither the work quality nor the researcher position. This score depends on the institution where you work; this score in the institution where I work hasn't any remote feedback.
I know that the more you participate in various research activities, the more your research interest increases. Nevertheless, as we are researchers, the RG total research of interest shouldn't be our main goal in itself. We should do our job honestly, such as writing valuable articles, participate in the useful discussions that we are really interested in. If we don't bother with this metric, we will see that it will increase.
If we make this metric our goal, it will astray us and then we will jump over some fences to increase our metrics without real internal improvement.
Why has my RG Score decreased or not changed?
The RG Score is calculated once a week, so if you've added publications and your score has not yet changed, please be patient. It's also relative, it can go up or down depending on the activity and scores of other ResearchGate members. This means it takes the scores and interactions of every researcher into account to give a relative rating of your contributions.
To improve your RG Score:
- Share anything from negative results to raw data or full-fledged publications
- Create a project, or add an update to your existing project(s)
- Ask a question or give another researcher a helpful answer
- Follow other researchers
- Comment on and recommend your peer's research, projects, and questions
https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/RG+Score
Thanks a lot for sharing this. I was wondering how the score has reduced. This will definitely create healthy competition among the researchers. A different idea from the research gate to make us work towards more contribution.
This score is realtive to more than just publications, and as such I do not use it as a way to rate performance. I never considered Research Gate a social platform, but since interaction is incorporated into the score and has a large impact, my perspective has changed over the years.
I totally agree with Nidhal Kamel Taha El-Omari and Sami Elmadssia. The RG score reflects the social interaction between and among researchers in this platform. It requires us to interact and contribute to the society not only just publishing articles but also sharing and discussing on specific issues.
The platform provides a central area where researchers can find collaborators in key thematic research areas. It is a valuable resource and should be leveraged in the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge. Though the the RG score fluctuates seemingly due to inherent community factors, on the whole, it is one of the best tools researchers can use to reach other well meaning scientists who are desirous in creating a knowledgeable society.
Thanks @ Luma M. Ahmed for your question, I had a similar concern but am now answered.
You have to be patient, as the weekly scoring changes according to your contribution and other RG members.
I totally agree with Nidhal Kamel Taha El-Omari and Sami Elmadssia.... A low-quality contribution probably won't attract positive feedback and recognition from the community, so it won't contribute to your score in any significant way.
I’m not sure if in manuscripts, preferent author position add some extra points to your score. For instance: first, last, and/or corresponding.
I think I quite agree with Eka Djatnika Nugraha. High-quality intellectual contributions are veritable tools for obtaining high scores on ResearchGate.
Estimados investigadores para subir su puntaje RG semanalmente debe incrementar la cantidad de artículos, la cantidad de preguntas, la cantidad de respuestas y la cantidad de seguidores. Estos son los cuatro indicadores que hacen cambiar el puntaje RG. Las citas, recomendaciones y lecturas incrementan el interés de la investigación
It's very easy to drop your RG score instantly. My RG score dropped from 17.8 to 9.8 (drop of 8 points) just in one week. All I did was I kept on following and unfollowing other researchers over a week and my RG score dropped 8 points the very next week. You can try it too as a research if you are not concerned about your RG score.
Kolita Weerasekera you really undertook an interesting experiment, I might as well try and see the outcome.
Did you know Dr. Adam B Shapiro (Ph. D) has a RG score of 1270.17
Dr. Adam B Shapiro (Ph. D)
His statistics are as follows:
(As of 18th August 2021)
Total Research Interest - 2,679
Citations - 4,407
Recommendations - 10,578
Reads - 1,513,440
Research Items - 83
For comparison of RG score :
Dr. George Perry (Ph. D)
ResearchGate Score - 62.32
(As of 18th August 2021)
Total Research Interest - 44,253
Citations - 83,374
Recommendations - 947
Reads - 155,630
Research Items - 1,353
Bottom line:
RG Score of
Dr. Adam B Shapiro (Ph. D) is 1270.17
and
Dr. George Perry (Ph. D) is 62.32
My question is why the amazing difference?
Could someone answer this?
I was wondering about the same thing. I think a huge part of the RG score is the interactions you have on the platform, such as the reads on your research items, questions you ask ,and the answers that you post. Kolita Weerasekera showed a very good example above. Looking at the citation count and research interest, the relative order of the RG scores should be the other way around. However, the 1 million + reads makes a huge difference for some reason.
Intelligent interpretations are okay. But what about repetitive interactions such as,
What is your RG score? How is the weather today in your area today? What is your home town temperature today? Such questions and repetitive answers every day, and answering with a "Than you" for every such answer, are they getting counted as answers? That's my issue. Hope ResearchGate will rectify this serious issue. I would suggest to implement some RG score drop for such question posers and answer providers on weekly basis.
If we are inactive in RG for an extended period of time, I believe that the score will automatically decrease. However, despite the fact that I received a citation this week, my score decreased by 0.01.
Kolita Weerasekera This is an excellent question. I verified both profiles and my hypothesis appears to be right. RG is a fully automated system, and the score is calculated automatically. It may assign a score based on the number of reads and recommendations for your work, rather than on the number of citations or the journal's quality. Dr Perry has 4454 citations, while Dr George has 84282 citations, which is significantly more than Dr Perry (RG 1234). Dr Perry, on the other hand, has 1,537,142 reads and 10702 recommendations, compared to Dr George, who has 158,406 reads and 97 recommendations.
In conclusion, RG may be estimated based on the interactions of other peers of your network. As a result, following more peers and receiving recommendations may help you increase your RG Score.
It all depends on your contributions and activeness on the platform ( question/answers). However, publishing in a high journal with high impact factor is a key.
I think it is because RG score is a relative rate compared to other researchers as they have more activities than you. Your score will decrease.
I have the same problem
My score decrease also I added three new papers
I think RG scores also decrease If you add papers without full text
RG score is relative, it can go up or down depending on the activity and scores of other ResearchGate members.
Researchgate is clearly aware that egos are one motivation for participating, so they turn ego against their users to prompt them into desired behaviors. As mentioned above you can stuff some socks into your profile to make it look bigger or talk to people whether you want to or not. Don't take the score as a reflection of your worth; just use the site as you need to.
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