I received a notification from #ResearchGate today, that an paper authored by me has been published. Only thing is: It's fake #AISlop.
The topic is related to stuff I have published in the past. Half of my "coauthors" are really former collaborators, the other half are made up/unknown.
This thing leaves me really clueless. What's the point of all this? Just inflating citations of other works?
Pueden encontrar una muestra de mis trabajos en #investigación #divulgación y #didáctica del #Derecho en mi perfil en esta red social académica.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luis-Javier-Capote-Perez/achievement/684fcdca8d60ea010c9e2362 a través de #researchgate
🔍 #ResearchGate is at it again, proving that even Sherlock Holmes couldn't crack their error codes 📚🔒. With access denied, we can only assume the real "hidden tracker" is the article itself, lost in the digital ether 🤷♂️✨.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391704077_You_Can_Drive_But_You_Cannot_Hide_Detection_of_Hidden_Cellular_GPS_Vehicle_Trackers #SherlockHolmes #ErrorCodes #DigitalPrivacy #HiddenTracker #HackerNews #ngated
Nach der #katastrophe ist leider immer vor der Katastrophe und damit die Erkenntnisse daraus nicht so schnell vergessen werden, hier mal eine interessante Untersuchung zu den Auswirkungen der Umweltkatastrophe 2022 durch #goldalgen in der #oder bzgl. der #libellen|fauna
#falkpetzold
#oliverbrauner
#gudrunknopf
#olemüller
#researchgate
#science
#gomphidae
🎭 Oh, the irony! ResearchGate's magnum opus on #boredom and sadistic aggression is so gripping, it's hidden behind digital bars. 🍇 Guess they wanted to spare us from dying of curiosity or aggression-induced boredom. 📚🔒
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344177987_On_the_relation_of_boredom_and_sadistic_aggression #ResearchGate #Irony #DigitalBars #SadisticAggression #HackerNews #ngated
The Relation of Boredom and Sadistic Aggression
#HackerNews #Boredom #SadisticAggression #Psychology #ResearchGate #AggressionStudies
Confession: I didn't realize Dr. Kevin Hall was so central to the research that's corrected so many of my thoughts and habits about #nutrition and #health.
Kevin's 2025 experience refutes recently-appointed leaders' claims that they are prioritizing #health and #transparency. The censorship that led to Dr. Hall's retirement from the #NIH is a loss for everyone who wants to go beyond fads and influencers to learn what #science reveals about #diet — if that's you, you may be interested in Kevin's forthcoming co-authored book #FoodIntelligence: https://amzn.to/4kxagfP
In the meantime, you can find Kevin Hall's already-published research on websites like #ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevin-Hall-12
To learn more about Dr. Hall's recent experience, see
- @STAT: https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/16/nih-kevin-hall-ultraprocessed-foods-nutrition-censorship
- #NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/well/kevin-hall-nutrition-retirement-nih-censorship-rfk-maha.html
Xiaofeng Wang's Research Gate profile
https://web.archive.org/web/20250330225726/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaofeng-Wang-35
🎉 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
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!
#ResearchGate
What are the open alternatives? I know about #bonfire
Update: I just realized that the obvious answer to this is #ORCiD 🤦♂️
@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.
Heute habe ich einen interessanten Workshop zu #Researchgate durchgeführt. So richtig weiterentwickelt hat sich die Plattform und ihre Nutzung nach meiner Beobachtung in den letzten Jahren nicht. Seht ihr das auch so? Empfehlung für Nachwuchsforschende?
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
@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.
