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ResearchGate automatically merges publications where all information is identical, including title, publication date, and journal. To edit your duplicate publications and make the information identical:

1. Go to the publication’s ResearchGate page
2. Click Edit on the toolbar below your publication’s title and abstract
3. Make the necessary changes
4. Click Save.

Once all of the information is matched, it can take up to 72 hours for the publications to be automatically merged. 

Duplicate profiles are sometimes created because of the various ways you can sign up to ResearchGate. The best way to fix this is to delete whichever profile is less complete. At this time, there’s no possibility to merge duplicate profiles.

To delete your secondary profile:

1. Log in with the email address you used to create your secondary profile
2. Go to your Account Settings page
3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page
4. Click the red Delete my Account button. 

If you no longer have access to the old profile, please let us know through the Contact form and provide us with the ResearchGate URLs or email addresses for the duplicate profiles. Also, please specify which link should be kept and which link should be merged.

Please note that we can only transfer the publications to your new account and remove the old one, profile views, followers, followings and questions will not be transferred.

Our publication search algorithm is designed to help you quickly confirm authorship of your publications on ResearchGate. The ease of this one-click process means mistakes can sometimes be made, so if another researcher has claimed to be your co-author, it is usually the result of an honest mistake.

If you notice that someone has mistakenly claimed co-authorship of your publication, please provide us with details of the person who has incorrectly claimed co-authorship (preferably a link to their ResearchGate profile) and a link to a few examples of publications that they have erroneously claimed through the contact form: Contact us

We take erroneous authorship claims very seriously and review each case manually, so please bear with us.

When browsing ResearchGate you might come across a profile in your name. This is most likely an author profile. Author profiles contain bibliographic data of published and publicly available information. They exist to make claiming and adding publications to your profile easier.

To claim your author profile and all the publications listed on it, click the Are you this author? button on the top right-hand side of the page. The author profile will then be merged with your ResearchGate profile. If you don’t have a ResearchGate profile yet, click Are you {name}? to be guided through the sign-up process. Once you’ve created an account, you'll be able to manage and edit all of the publications on your profile. 

 To block a researcher from interacting with you on ResearchGate, follow these simple steps:

1. Go to the profile of the researcher you want to block
2. Click on their Info tab
3. Scroll down to the bottom right and click Block researcher.

Blocking a researcher means they’ll be removed from your list of followers and won’t be able to message you or see updates about you. Blocking works both ways, so your contact with them will be limited in the same way. 

Questions, answers,profiles,messagesand comments can be reported for various reasons, including spam, offensive nature andcommericalcontent.

To report content:

Questions & Answers: Click 'Flag' below the question or answer body, and select the appropriate option from thedropdownand provide us with some information about why you've reported this content.

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Profiles: Go to the 'Info' tab of the profile you'd like to report, and click 'Flag profile' below the question or answer body, and select the appropriate option from thedropdownand provide us with some information about why you've reported this content. You can also click 'Block researcher' if you'd like to stop this profile from interacting with you on ResearchGate.

Permission for authors to self-archive their publications varies between publishers and journals. If you aren't sure about a particular journal's permissions, you can view the archiving permissions and conditions based on Sherpa/RoMEO data, as well as a link to the publisher's original policy, on your journal article's page on ResearchGate under ‘Show self-archiving restrictions.’ For publication types that are not articles, please check your publisher’s copyright permissions.

When you click on ‘Show self-archiving restrictions,’ you'll see a classification color at the bottom. Green means you should be safe to add a full-text, yellow means you should check your individual article conditions, blue or yellow means you should check your individual article conditions, and white means self-archiving is generally not permitted. You should always check your publisher conditions to make sure you are not breaching copyright. You can also read more about publisher copyright policies and self-archiving at http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/.

If you are not permitted to add a full-text version of your publication to ResearchGate, you may want to choose to share a copy with other users privately. This is possible through private messages, or, if another researcher has requested the full-text version, you may choose to click ‘Send privately.'

If a full-text has been uploaded by a co-author, then only they can remove it. The member that uploaded the full-text can be seen below the full-text itself and above the references section, under "Available from: " You can contact them through ResearchGate by messaging them. You can message another member by going to their profile and clicking 'Message' at the top right corner of their page.

You can edit your publication’s details by following these steps:

1. Go to the publication’s ResearchGate page by clicking on the title of the publication
2. Click on the 3 vertically-aligned blue circles to the right of 'Add full-text' or 'Share publication'
3. Select 'Edit' from the drop-down list
4. Make the necessary changes
5. Click ‘Save.’

Note: Certain types of publications cannot be changed to other types, like 'Dataset', 'Working Paper' or 'Research'. These must be removed and re-uploaded as the correct type.

When adding co-authors during the creation process, only researchers who are mutual followers are suggested. Any other author names become author profiles.

If the author profile is listed as 'Unknown', it cannot currently be claimed by or suggested to researchers. Please allow 72 hours for our algorithms to process the names, and then either claim or suggest them to the correct researcher.