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An explanation of the RG score is given at: https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/RG+Score The items in an academic's RG profile include their published articles, unpublished...
05 May 2019 1,309 83 View
Issues relating to the strengths and weaknesses of the RG score have been and remain topical in Q&A. Please feel free to choose some or all the Q&A listed below that might interest you to...
05 May 2019 9,205 43 View
"There's no such thing as bad publicity". Possibly anonymous, but often associated with Phineas T. Barnum, 19th Century American showman and circus owner.
05 May 2019 7,675 37 View
Reads for the RG score refer to Publications and Q&A , whereas TRI depends, among others, on Full-text and Other Reads. When is a Read not a Read?
05 May 2019 5,605 7 View
A fatal flaw in the RG score, if you care? The RG score is explained in detail at the following website: https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/RG+Score Among others, the following...
05 May 2019 2,616 48 View
Two interesting, related and popular Questions on Happiness...
05 May 2019 3,910 5 View
Scientific Reports charges USD 1,790 to publish an article. Since 24 March 2015, biology papers submitted to the journal could be fast-tracked (that is, a review in around 3 weeks) with an...
04 April 2019 8,336 22 View
Papers are written to satisfy personal challenges, and to be published, read, discussed, and cited. If a published paper has zero (or very few) citations, is it irrelevant?
04 April 2019 7,906 97 View
The APCs of Nature Research Open Access Journals are available at: https://www.nature.com/openresearch/publishing-with-npg/nature-journals/ As an example, Nature Communications charges USD...
04 April 2019 6,475 5 View
The RG score is based on a weighted sum of Publications, Questions, Answers and Followers. Why does the RG score not depend on the h-index?
04 April 2019 4,163 11 View
There are many international rankings websites, including SCIE, SSCI, ESCI, Scopus, RePEc, SSRN, JSTOR, EBSCO, Proquest, Cabell, KISS,KCI, DOI/CrossRef, and Google Scholar, among others. Which...
04 April 2019 7,705 8 View
A game is defined by a set of codified rules rather than intentions. An ethical question is whether it is worse to break the letter of the law or the spirit of the law. Breaking the rules is...
04 April 2019 1,325 15 View
What is the meaning of life? Is it to help others, as can be seen frequently in RG? Is it to achieve our goals? Is it to reach our potential? Is it to be happy? Is it to throw light on...
04 April 2019 5,245 43 View
Can the Main Office of RG provide information on how many academics are registered on RG? Can this be decomposed by broad discipline groups in the sciences and social sciences?
04 April 2019 9,473 14 View
How often is the Bible cited in academic research?
04 April 2019 4,015 34 View
Given the wide range in Citations, Reads and Recommendations, might the h-index be reported under "Stats Overview" rather than under "Scores", which requires another click?
04 April 2019 5,393 3 View
Can the Main Office provide the correlation matrix for the following 5 variables for all the academics who are registered on RG: (1) citations (2) reads (3) recommendations (4) total research...
04 April 2019 8,787 4 View
Using basketball terminology, a quintuple-double in RG may be classified as the accumulation of specific double-digit number totals in all five categories, namely RG Score (50), Citations (10c =...
04 April 2019 8,664 2 View
Using basketball terminology, a quadruple-double in RG may be classified as the accumulation of specific double-digit number totals in four of five categories, namely RG Score (50), Citations (10c...
04 April 2019 4,859 2 View
Using basketball terminology, a triple-double in RG may be classified as the accumulation of specific double-digit number totals in three of five categories, namely RG Score (50), Citations (10c...
04 April 2019 284 3 View
Using basketball terminology, a double-double in RG may be classified as the accumulation of specific double-digit number totals in two of five categories, namely RG Score (50), Citations (10c =...
04 April 2019 9,247 2 View
Using basketball terminology, a double in RG may be classified as the accumulation of a specific double-digit number total in one of five categories, namely RG Score (50), Citations (10c = 1,000),...
04 April 2019 7,796 2 View
Which of citations, reads, recommendations, total research interest, and h-index is the most accurate, meaningful and informative measure of academic activity?
04 April 2019 5,072 33 View
Should RG provide rankings of the 1000 highest-scoring academics by TRI, Citations and h-index (including and excluding self-citations)?
04 April 2019 3,942 101 View
There has been substantial discussion on RG about the relative merits of the RG score, which tends to favour Reads, Recommendations and Q&A, and Total Research Interest (TRI), which tends to...
04 April 2019 598 35 View
Comparing RG with Google Scholar, Scopus and Publons (WoS)? RG provides Citations and h-index (including and excluding self-citations). Google Scholar provides Citations and h-index (all years...
04 April 2019 7,415 97 View
The Research Interest score is a weighted average of several factors, with the greatest weight given for citations (0.5), and the lowest weight given for reads by members of ResearchGate (0.05)....
02 February 2019 6,613 7 View
What formula or algorithm is used in calculating the RG score? How is the RG score related to the number of Reads, Citations, Research Items, Journal Publications, Co-authors, and Affiliations...
10 October 2018 8,666 14 View
