Using +Plus

To learn how reads are counted on ResearchGate, see here. 

To see the identities of your readers, you first need to enable your reader visibility settings. Once enabled, you’ll only be able to see the profiles of your readers who also have these settings enabled. To see them: 

1. Log in to your account https://www.researchgate.net/login
2. Visit the Stats tab on your profile and click on the Reads tab.
3. If you have more than two readers, then under People who read your publications click on View more researchers.

1. Log in to your account https://www.researchgate.net/login.
2. Visit the Stats tab on your profile and click on the Reads tab.
3. Under Reader demographics for the last 8 weeks click on View individual publication stats.

Alternatively, you can go to your individual publication pages directly, click on Stats, and scroll down to see your readers (if applicable).

1. Log in to your account https://www.researchgate.net/login
2. Visit the Stats tab on your profile and click on the Reads tab.

Under Reader demographics for the last 8 weeks click on View all demographics.

A ‘mention’ is an instance of your research item being mentioned, talked about, or linked to online, on sites outside of ResearchGate. This includes mentions of your research on Twitter and Wikipedia. We can only find mentions for the research that you’ve added to your profile.

1. Log in to your account https://www.researchgate.net/login
2. Visit the Stats tab on your profile and then click on the Mentions tab.

If you have several mentions, then under Recent mentions click on View all mentions.

By default, Tweets are not embedded in your Mentions tab. To be able to see embedded tweets, you will have to enable this.

1. Log in to your account https://www.researchgate.net/login.
2. Click on the arrow next to your profile picture in the top right-hand corner and click on Privacy settings
3. Under External content, turn on Allow embedded Tweets. You can turn this off at any time.

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