Breaking News: #ResearchGate has discovered the ultimate way to boost #productivity – by blocking everyone from accessing their site! 
Apparently, hitting a wall of error messages is exactly what we needed to not read about 'Xiaofeng Wang'. Who knew? 
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaofeng-Wang-35 #BreakingNews #Hacks #ErrorMessages #XiaofengWang #HackerNews #ngated
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After some consideration, I deleted my ResearchGate profile. It wasn't a terrible experience, although I never felt comfortable uploading papers to their system. In the end, I decided that belonging to another Facebook-like social network wasn't justified. It feels better to narrow down the social media presence. Online marketing and networking aren't my strengths. Anyone interested in my research can easily find me via a simple search and email message.
@fresseng Thanks for the inspiration!
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#ResearchGate
What are the open alternatives? I know about #bonfire
Update: I just realized that the obvious answer to this is #ORCiD 
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@fresseng I never had one because of their growth-via-relentless -spamming business plan, and when they created a profile for me and expected me to “claim” it, I insisted they delete it. They recreated it some time later 
The CEO of #ResearchGate bragged about how it’s all about harvesting researchers’ data in order to advertise at them, so I want nothing to do with it. Annoyingly, some senior researchers I know seem to think it’s a #preprint server.
OMG... I forgot I still had a #ResearchGate account.
As it has become completely useless today, with so many open alternatives, I no longer have one.
And there are other reasons for deleting it too.
The opening sentence of this: "one of the most popular academic social networking sites is [ResearchGate]"
This may be factually correct but it really doesn't feel like it anymore. I always felt that RG was, frankly, $hit, but accepted that it appeared popular among scholars. But today? I rarely come across it.
The Now-Defunct #ResearchGate Score and the Extant Research Interest Score: A Continued Debate on #Metrics of a Highly Popular #Academic #SocialNetworking Site https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2024-0011
De Gruyter · The Now-Defunct ResearchGate Score and the Extant Research Interest Score: A Continued Debate on Metrics of a Highly Popular Academic Social Networking SiteAcademics might employ science social media or academic social networking sites (ASNSs), such as ResearchGate (RG), to showcase and promote their academic work, research, or published papers. In turn, RG provides usage statistics and performance metrics such as the now-defunct RG Score and the Research Interest Score (RIS) that offer a form of recognition about a researcher’s popularity, or how research is being used or appreciated. As part of a larger appreciation of how ASNSs contribute to knowledge sharing, in this article, the RG Score is reappraised, reflecting on why this metric may have been abandoned while reflecting on whether RIS is any better as an author-based altmetric. Similar to the RG Score, RG does not transparently indicate the precise equation used to calculate RIS, nor is any rationale provided for the weighting of its four factors (other reads, full-text reads, recommendations, and citations), which carry a relative weighting of 0.05, 0.15, 0.25, and 0.5, respectively. Ultimately, the responsible use of RG’s altmetrics lies in users’ hands, although caution is advised regarding their use to formally characterize or rank academics or research institutes.
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@julian Get rid of #ResearchGate next, please 
@mloxton But since #ResearchGate is a commercial actor whose stated aim is to harvest researchers' data in order to target advertising at them should we really be encouraging people to trust them?
`Your research items reached 400 citations
Achieved on January 3, 2025`
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Korenblum/achievement/6778c2cacd69b06f4df07c3d
Is there an analog for #researchgate in the #Fediverse?
In a way, https://bookwyrm.social/ comes close to this. Bibliometric information like the number of citations might be taken from different sources like #openalex and #wikidata.
bookwyrm.socialBookWyrmSocial Reading and Reviewing
Does anyone have any info on notedsource.io? I've been spammed on LinkedIn, and I've gone through their site, sign-up, etc. and still can't figure out exactly what they do. I thought it was a place like upwork for academics, but so far it just seems like a startup trying to compete with #researchgate--a bunch of academics and nobody else. Not sure I understand how to use the service or what it's really for.
Any info is appreciated, because it's a little mysterious to me, right now.
Interesting thread on elaborate fake identities, sprawling from Researchgate to Twitter, used to engage scientists for a purpose as of yet unclear. There is some suspicion that it is an intel operation... https://x.com/SolidEvidence/status/1857073706339565589
X (formerly Twitter)Marc Johnson (@SolidEvidence) on XI knew there were a lot of fake accounts on this platform, but they are usually obvious. I had no idea how intricate and complex the ruse could be.
Get a load of this story.
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Beim @webmontagkiel wird @Cykelsok was zum @stadtradeln zum Besten geben. Wer nicht warten kann, für den hat die TU Dresden hier schon ein bisschen Papier zum Lesen auf #Researchgate:
Mobilität von Radfahrenden in Deutschland - Nutzerbefragung im Rahmen der Kampagne Stadtradeln 2023
September 2024
DOI: 10.25368/2024.316
Affiliation: Technische Universität Dresden
Emely Richter
Christian Linß
Sven Lissner
Joscha Raudszus
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385793272_Mobilitat_von_Radfahrenden_in_Deutschland_-_Nutzerbefragung_im_Rahmen_der_Kampagne_Stadtradeln_2023 #CycleScientists
I'm getting what I believe to be spam followers on #ResearchGate now.
meaningless in the grand scheme of things but it matters to me: I asked #ResearchGate to stop leeching #arxiv PDFs without attribution and they actually reuploaded and reindexed all their arxiv-derived content with clear backlinks to the original arxiv submissions
So this weekend was another first for me 
. Someone I have never met sent me a message on #researchgate, which I'm happy about because I too use researchgate to contact people 
However, this person added two articles to the message and kindly asked me to include one of them in one of my future publications.
Is this common?
"Larry Richardson is officially history’s highest cited cat (according to Google Scholar, at least)."
https://reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/engineering-the-worlds-highest-cited-cat-larry/
From Retraction Watch - Engineering the world’s highest cited cat, Larry
https://reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/engineering-the-worlds-highest-cited-cat-larry/
> A citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it.
Reese Richardson · Engineering the world’s highest cited cat, LarryA citation manipulation scheme so easy, even a cat can do it.