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What is ResearchGate?

ResearchGate is a professional network for scientists and researchers. It started when two researchers discovered first-hand that collaborating with a friend or colleague on the other side of the world was no easy task.

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ResearchGate is a professional network for scientists and researchers. It started when two researchers discovered first-hand that collaborating with a friend or colleague on the other side of the world was no easy task.


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Sayan P.
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5.0 out of 5
"Great Platform to share your research"
Ability to share research article , See Citation Metrics, Networking
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"Useful site for all researchers"
It gives an opportunity to connect with other researchers. Gives global visibility to our works. Helps with sourcing full articles. Helps to kee...
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"Good for networking!"
I like that you get to add researchers you like and follow their new articles and citations, because it works like an alert system in which you can...
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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

The best thing about it that it keeps sending the articles where it encounters our name to prevent the use of our work by others. This site lets us to follow the authors based on our field of study or our interests. Place where we can find articles to read just like that.Guides the new entrants into research Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

There should be increase in the quality of papers submitted. There are some research articles which are not worth at all. Proper scrutiny for plagiarism. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It acts like guide for new researchers to find sample articles and also use of their achievements by referencing and acknowledging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Find the research papers to do literature review of academic projects . follow research papers to gain knowledge. It helped me to complete my m.tech thesis wit ease Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

> ResearchGate has over 17 million users who are verified researchers around the world.

> This makes it a global platform for interacting with people from any field of research.

> We can choose the selected areas of research and specializations to get recent publications on the feeds.

> Even we can get access to some pre-prints.

> Free text articles are available. In some, full text copy can be requested directly from the author.

> Conference papers or posters are also available.

> Researchers can ask or answer questions on their experimentation, protocols or on troubleshooting.

> We can follow the pioneers in the field and can get in contact easily via personal messaging.

> The researchers can upload their publications and can track their citations, read stats and many more.

> ResearchGate profile creates a clear overview of your skills, expertise and experience which can act as your resume.

> We can search for research related jobs or projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

> It needs an institutional mail id to create a > Some researchers will not keep their account up to date

> Some of the articles just contain the abstract.

> Unwanted ads come in between the feeds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:

Looking for a place where you can find most of the research related things? This is the one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

> Get easy access to many publications and researchers in my field of interest.

> Can get clarifications for your research related questions at global level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

The way it links you to another researchers around selected topics and specializations, allowing to track and follow research publications on your field. Furthermore, members can share their papers, either pre or post review.

ResearchGate offers the option to search and filter either by author, institution, publication, and so on. Thus, facilitate the experience to the user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

The unwanted email spamming. Sometime you can received dozens of emails a day. Moreover, it is very disorganized in terms of communication, sometimes gets tough to ask a full document because of the lack of response of the users.

This may be because ResearchGate claims they have over 6 million of members, but they may not see, how many members are actually active. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:

It is great for researchers as it enable you to connect with academics on your field, and share your work with them. Also, it is a great networking tool, since you can collaborate with people of your interest on topics of your choose, allowing you to know people on your field, who could gives you an opportunity to work with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Being able to connect with other researcher on my field and share our work. Moreover, often it is difficult to find the right paper online, and ResearchGate enables you to find a plenty number of papers, which you can use for research. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

Researchgate is one of the best platforms that help to make a link between the researchers or scientists and the one who follows them. It is easy to have a user profile in researchgate and once you have a user profile you can follow the scientists or researchers one you admire. This platform also provides free access to some research papers which could be of great help for the study and different research. The highest number of active users research platform also helps us to collab with different researchers and work on research in different fields. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

Researchgate sends the unwanted spamming emails and updates about the software which may feel dishonorable to the users. As it can be changed through the notifications settings there are no any dislikes I have personally found on this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:

Research is one of the best tools for research. It helps to find the best research articles and papers you want and also you can follow the renowned researchers you admire through this platform easily. So, a try is worth for this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Finding a suitable research paper required for the user was quite difficult and researchgate provided the solution about that problem. Also it helps to link the user and the renowned researchers and scientists which is also is of great help for the beginner researchers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anoj A.
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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

It is good, free software platforms that make a user to share research article, working projects and also helps to developed own profile which acts as a resume for the researchers so than people can track all the research information on one click. The best part of the software is that it notifies the user on the addition of articles and projects within the user community. It helps to follow the researcher who is working on the same type of project as well as on an interested project. It also auto connects the research article to the user profile if it belongs to them which are uploaded by any other user. Reading the open assess article directly through the research gate is one of the interesting features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

I think making groups of the researcher working on related projects and allowing them to share valuable ideas, information and files is lacking. Posting job vacancies on the project can also be developed which will be the strength of this site. The rest of all the experiences is awesome for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:

It is easy to use and builds your resume so that other can track you at single click. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

I mainly use Research gate link to share my achievements with other people so that they can know me collectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

It is such a great website and would definitely recommend it, especially in this crazy time when we are all quarantined! It is such an easy platform to use, download, and navigate. It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

Honestly not so much, maybe except that I am emailed constantly about anything related to my research. Which can be helpful at times but it is extremely constant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:

It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. It is such an easy platform to use, download, and navigate. It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. It also allows me to connect with fellow scientists who are doing similar or related research topics. It is such an easy platform to use, download, and navigate. It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

I can reach out to most academic peers using ResearchGate.

I can build a network of academic peers using ResearchGate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

When I get a message from ResearchGate in the email, I have to go to ResearchGate to reply rather than reply it directly in email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:

Please add a function to reply directly in email Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Asking for papers from academic peers and communicating with colleagues

Build relationships with people around the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

starts of as free. allows connecting with collaborators. sharing of publications with opportunity to ask questions to the researchers. the ability to narrow down to certain interest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

info is not always up to date as far as the people too many emails. there are a lot of college students, not so many researchers. there are a small amount of papers available for free. forcing you to pay at some point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

being able to get different point of views fro other colleagues.i need to keep my information up to date. noticed duplicates of the same papers are their main focus, allowing a person to think the quality if better than what it is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

They have all kind of research papers anyone can look for Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

I found Nothing to dislike this website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:

I will highly recommend research gate for students, professor and for anyone who are looking for research papers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am writing my thesis and I found lot's of research paper which really help me to geta data and information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about ResearchGate?

It is very comprehensive and covers every topic that i need Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ResearchGate?

It has a very time consuming search process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:

Use it wisely. It is the ultimate source of knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?

Writing research papers and project proposals. Understanding complex coursework and innovative new technologies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.