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| title | How can I improve my RG Score and why does it decrease? |
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| To improve your RG Score, ask a question or give another researcher a helpful answer. Share anything from negative results to data and published work. If it's valuable to the community, your peers will likely give you feedback, and this will play into your RG Score. Connect with others, contribute high-quality content, and your score will rise. As it is a dynamic score, fluctuations are normal. Please note that the RG score is a relative score, which means that it takes the scores and interactions of every researcher into account when producing a relative rating of your contributions. |
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| title | How does the RG Score account for quality? |
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| The RG Score is based on what your peers think of your work. Low-quality contributions won't attract positive feedback and recognition from the rest of the community, so they won't contribute to a researcher's score in any significant way. With this in mind, we've given you the ability to downvote and flag any contribution that doesn't reach the standards upheld by the rest of the community. We'll be introducing more ways for you to point out these contributions in the near future. |
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| title | Can I turn off my RG Score? |
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| The RG Score is a metric that measures scientific reputation based on how all of your research is received by your peers. As an integral feature of ResearchGate, it can't be turned off or hidden. We are constantly working on ways to improve the RG Score to reflect your needs as a researcher. |
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| Your RG Score will be activated when it reaches 1. Only then will it be visible to other researchers. If you've just signed up and confirmed authorship of a significant number of publications, your RG Score will likely become visible with the next weekly update. |
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| While we do not show contributions to the RG Score which are less than 1%, they are still included in the calculation of your score. |
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It is recalculated once per week, so depending on your interactions and the content you have added to your profile, it is likely that your new score will appear with the next update.
Asking questions, providing helpful answers, or adding data and figures are all good ways to improve your RG Score. If your peers think it's worthwhile, they will likely give you feedback, which will affect your score. By connecting with other researchers and contributing high-quality content, your score will increase. track your achievements. On ResearchGate you can also see the people behind the stats, giving you the opportunity to find out more about the people interested in your work and even connect with them.
See who's interested in your work
Stats are not just about numbers: they also represent actual researchers who are interacting with and learning from your research. On your Stats tab, you can see the profiles of your readers (provided that you've both chosen reader visibility settings that show authors when you've read their research), as well as the researchers citing and recommending your work. And you'll get demographic information about your audience by country, institution, seniority, and discipline.
Understand the bigger picture
Your Stats tab provides a range of metrics to help you get a comprehensive overview of the impact of your work.
The Research Interest Score combines, reads, recommendations, and citations to give you a convenient way to help track the impact of your work within the scientific community. You can look at other people's scores to get an idea of their impact too.
We show you citations of your work to give you a more detailed way to understand and track how your work is being referenced by others. You can also see your h-index, which gives you an idea of your impact based on your citations in relation to your publishing activity.
The time it takes for researchers to finally start citing your work can be long — anywhere between several months to several years. This is why reads are a great way to see early interest in your work by both ResearchGate members and non-members. You can also see which of your publications are read the most each week.
Recommendations by other ResearchGate members give you an idea of the relevance of your work and tell you that people find your work useful.
Mentions show you where your work has been talked about online, outside of ResearchGate — such as on blogs, news sites, and Twitter.
Keep up with your stats each week
We provide you with a weekly stats report to help you keep track of your impact. You can access your report directly from your Stats tab – we also notify you each week as soon as your report is ready.
Celebrate your success
We think it's important to stop and enjoy your achievements, which is why we notify you when you reach certain milestones for your stats. It's also easy for you to share your achievements with others via social media, so they can help celebrate your accomplishments with you.
You can get an overview of your stats on your stats page.
