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Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![sudheer k.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "sudheer k.") SK sudheer k. Cambridge Coordinator Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/30/2024 "Useful site for all researchers" 5/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? It gives an opportunity to connect with other researchers. Gives global visibility to our works. Helps with sourcing full articles. Helps to keep us updated with research work of our interest. Has citation scores with notifications. Acts as a reserch profile. Very easy to update. It is go to tool on day to day basis. It can be easily integrated on your resume. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? there is a definite scope of improvement in User Interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? It gives an opportunity to connect with other researchers. Gives global visibility to our works. Helps with sourcing full articles. Helps to keep us updated with research work of our interest. Has citation scores with notifications. Acts as a reserch profile. Job Search Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. G2 Icon 7/10/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Sayan P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sayan P.") SP Sayan P. Postdoctoral Research Fellow in University College London Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 10/21/2024 "Great Platform to share your research" 5/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? Ability to share research article , See Citation Metrics, Networking Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? Not good algorithm for relevant research to come in feed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? Share research and get answers from experts in the field Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Thank You page ![Loyola d.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Loyola d.") LD Loyola d. Promoter Publication Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 2/10/2023 "media for scientific research" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? One of the primary sources for wider dissemination of scientific articles. Often the very latest in the developments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? The necessary use of business email. The option go personal emails would be most welcome for an independent researcher. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? Preparation for PhD by independent researchers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![GALO BERNARDO C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "GALO BERNARDO C.") GC GALO BERNARDO C. Chair of the Graphic Design School Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/16/2022 "Affordable academic platform" 4/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? Research Gate has a lot of valuable information but does not fill up your email account with advertisements and offers. Also if you want to stay on the free side of Research Gate you have a lot of benefits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? I do not dislike anything about Research Gate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? ResearchGate helps to keep me updated on my discipline, publish findings of my current research and find out papers from other researchers around the world Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Weixin L.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Weixin L.") WL Weixin L. Criminal Appellate Practice Student Attorney Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/30/2022 "A Social Network for Entry-Level Scholars" 5/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? It is a good social network and a platform for scholars to know each other, and an effective gateway for job search and meeting like-minded people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? Being a social network seems like all it does, and thus a lot of information is inaccurate and outdated if that user is not actively maintaining the profile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? Registered during the first year of graduate school trying to see what research topics others are working on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sukran Bahar S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sukran Bahar S.") SS Sukran Bahar S. Graduate Student Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/18/2021 "Good for networking!" 4.5/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? I like that you get to add researchers you like and follow their new articles and citations, because it works like an alert system in which you can follow the work within the fields and areas you are interested in. I also enjoy that I get to see if anyone read my papers through my profile. In my area (developmental psychology) this is a common site to have a profile on, so when you meet other researchers during networking events and conferences, you usually follow them after. This helps with keeping in touch with other researchers and maintaining your professional relationships. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? I believe that this is more useful for researchers with a wider network. It's not necessarily a dislike, however since I don't have that many publications it's not very useful for me too see all my stats and how much I got read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate: Some features may not be the most relevant to young researchers, however I do believe that it's a useful tool to build your network early on. It's also a helpful way to keep updated on new work by researchers you like! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? Like I mentioned earlier, when you meet other researchers during networking events and conferences, this helps you to maintain contact with them and keep up with their research. My area is not very conducive to using LinkedIn and this definitely helps to build a network of researchers and also keep up with how their research is developing, so you can see what contacts do research within your areas of interest. This would be very helpful when selecting who to contact for collaborations etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 10/24/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aleksandra C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aleksandra C.") AC Aleksandra C. Partnerships & Sales Ops Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 1/26/2021 "Good tool for connecting with others." 5/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? The comprehensive analysis of the desired field. You can get insights on various disciplines. You can also read news, publications, articles written by industry colleagues. It is interesting to see what others are working on especially people who are in the same field as you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? No obvious shortcomings of the service. Everything seems to be well done. There are less users on Researchgate than there are on Linkedin. It is taking some time to gather momentum and attract a rather large crowd. A large number of disciplines available and you can really hone in on what you'd like to follow and read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate: Great resource for networking and gathering industry information. Another great tool to utilize when connecting with others and seeing what the industry in your field is working towards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? Gathering industry information in order to make informed decisions. Connecting with industry colleagues. Reading about the latest industry trends and news from those who have been in the field longer. Catching up on articles that are published by industry experts. Also seeing what the industry colleagues are working on and gauging their opinions on some subject matter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Martin N.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Martin N.") MN Martin N. Scientific Assistant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/22/2021 "One of the worst system I've ever used" 0/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? Project logs could be very useful, but the implementation is very bad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? Their registration layout tries to be fancy by "Oh. Look how smart I am, just give me your institutional e-mail address, and I'll find your colleagues". "Oh you did gave an institutional e-mail which I don't recognize? Please wait request a free account, and wait for the 459 requests ahead of you." This basically happened to me. A year ago, the institution I'm working in changed name, thus my e-mail changed, which Researchgate didn't recognize... Ok. I've waited to complete the requests in front of mine. After 10-20 minutes I was able to verify myself as a researcher. At least that was what I thought. I needed to provide an URL of one of my publication, and then guess what? "We have received your request and will get back to you soon." Still waiting while writing this review... I've never experienced a registration process being such a hassle. I hope that after this request I will finally be able to use this for what I originally wanted. But I wouldn't be surprised if they would be asking for a birth certificate and blood sample... And this leads us to my next point. I wanted to get a very old post from a project log. There is no possibility to search in a specific log. You have to scroll all the way back. But after 2-5 minutes of vigorous scrolling, they will "notice unusual traffic from your network", dropping you back to the newest post of the project log. 5 minutes wasted. After this you can go a bit further, then it drops you back again. Eventually, you will need to check a checkbox to "validate yourself", but the checkbox doesn't appear for me, and couldn't do anything until clearing the cookies. I hope that registration solves this issue. But seriously, this is one of the worst systems I've ever needed to use. PS: I've started the registration process 30 minutes, for now, still not being able to log in... All this because Researchgate failed to update its list of institutions, and catching up with the fact that "Hungarian Academy of Sciences Wigner Research Centre for Physics" is only "Wigner Research Centre for Physics" now, and the e-mail domain is not @wigner.mta.hu, but @wigner.hu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? I'm reading a project log. At least trying to read it... See "What do you disklike?" section Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Hugo C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hugo C.") HC Hugo C. Profesor Titular Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 6/30/2021 "Good platform to post papers and publications" 5/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? Easy to use, provides the essential information to know what people are doing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? Nothing. It is good enough for my needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate: An efficient site to disseminate information and papers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? To disseminate more efficiently publications in local journals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Gustavo Fernando O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Gustavo Fernando O.") GO Gustavo Fernando O. Graduate Research Assistant Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/28/2020 "Very useful tool for professional networking" 5/5 What do you like best about ResearchGate? The best part of Researchgate is that one can find professionals dedicated to research in a wide variety of subjects in science. At the same time one can build a network of contacts that can share info with each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about ResearchGate? The app for iOS is not friendly for the user, I can't log in into my profile in my smartphone and I have to use Saffari instead, that can be solved creating a better app exclusively for iOS. Besides that, I would also like to have a better chat Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate: My recommendation would be to share most of the knowledge with others, and when someone asks you for highlights on your research help them with background info that may not be available in the main paper. Besides, its is important to build a network of professionald, so, don't hesitate to ask for help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you? I have found literature published by other professionals that I may not find in another site. At the same time I have published my research thesis that can help others to acomplish their goals. I have also contacted professionals that share the same area of expertise that I do and have asked them to share with me more infor on their research. For example, I needed the mathematical model of one research project and asked the author if he could share with me the highlights of what he performed and he was very opened to help me on the models he built. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ## Questions about ResearchGate? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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