# ResearchGate Reviews **Vendor:** ResearchGate **Category:** [Social Network Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/social-networks) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 22 ## About ResearchGate ResearchGate is a professional network for scientists and researchers. It started when two researchers discovered first-hand that collaborating with a friend or colleague on the other side of the world was no easy task. ## ResearchGate Reviews ### 1. Useful site for all researchers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sudheer k. | Cambridge Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2024 **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. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** there is a definite scope of improvement in User Interface **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 ### 2. Great Platform to share your research **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sayan P. | Postdoctoral Research Fellow in University College London, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2024 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** Ability to share research article , See Citation Metrics, Networking **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** Not good algorithm for relevant research to come in feed. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Share research and get answers from experts in the field ### 3. media for scientific research **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Loyola d. | Promoter Publication, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2023 **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. **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. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Preparation for PhD by independent researchers ### 4. Affordable academic platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** GALO BERNARDO C. | Chair of the Graphic Design School, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 16, 2022 **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. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** I do not dislike anything about Research Gate. **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 ### 5. A Social Network for Entry-Level Scholars **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Weixin L. | Criminal Appellate Practice Student Attorney, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 30, 2022 **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. **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. **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. ### 6. Good for networking! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sukran Bahar S. | Graduate Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2021 **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. **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. **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! **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. ### 7. Good tool for connecting with others. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aleksandra C. | Partnerships & Sales Ops, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 26, 2021 **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. **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. **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. **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. ### 8. One of the worst system I've ever used **Rating:** 0.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martin N. | Scientific Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** Project logs could be very useful, but the implementation is very bad. **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. **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 ### 9. Good platform to post papers and publications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hugo C. | Profesor Titular, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2021 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** Easy to use, provides the essential information to know what people are doing **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** Nothing. It is good enough for my needs. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** An efficient site to disseminate information and papers **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** To disseminate more efficiently publications in local journals ### 10. Very useful tool for professional networking **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gustavo Fernando O. | Graduate Research Assistant , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **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. **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 **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. **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. ### 11. Great place for good research papers and thesis submissions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sairam Goud N. | Engineer, Development Infra, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** The best thing about it that it keeps sending the articles where it encounters our name to prevent the use of our work by others. This site lets us to follow the authors based on our field of study or our interests. Place where we can find articles to read just like that.Guides the new entrants into research **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** There should be increase in the quality of papers submitted. There are some research articles which are not worth at all. Proper scrutiny for plagiarism. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** It acts like guide for new researchers to find sample articles and also use of their achievements by referencing and acknowledging. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Find the research papers to do literature review of academic projects . follow research papers to gain knowledge. It helped me to complete my m.tech thesis wit ease ### 12. A great online platform for researchers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ananthakrishna T. | PHD Scholar, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** > ResearchGate has over 17 million users who are verified researchers around the world. > This makes it a global platform for interacting with people from any field of research. > We can choose the selected areas of research and specializations to get recent publications on the feeds. > Even we can get access to some pre-prints. > Free text articles are available. In some, full text copy can be requested directly from the author. > Conference papers or posters are also available. > Researchers can ask or answer questions on their experimentation, protocols or on troubleshooting. > We can follow the pioneers in the field and can get in contact easily via personal messaging. > The researchers can upload their publications and can track their citations, read stats and many more. > ResearchGate profile creates a clear overview of your skills, expertise and experience which can act as your resume. > We can search for research related jobs or projects. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** > It needs an institutional mail id to create a > Some researchers will not keep their account up to date > Some of the articles just contain the abstract. > Unwanted ads come in between the feeds. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** Looking for a place where you can find most of the research related things? This is the one. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** > Get easy access to many publications and researchers in my field of interest. > Can get clarifications for your research related questions at global level. ### 13. Unwanted email spamming! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan Esteban R. | Ingeniero de Seguridad, Salud Ocupacional y Medioambiente, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** The way it links you to another researchers around selected topics and specializations, allowing to track and follow research publications on your field. Furthermore, members can share their papers, either pre or post review. ResearchGate offers the option to search and filter either by author, institution, publication, and so on. Thus, facilitate the experience to the user. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** The unwanted email spamming. Sometime you can received dozens of emails a day. Moreover, it is very disorganized in terms of communication, sometimes gets tough to ask a full document because of the lack of response of the users. This may be because ResearchGate claims they have over 6 million of members, but they may not see, how many members are actually active. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** It is great for researchers as it enable you to connect with academics on your field, and share your work with them. Also, it is a great networking tool, since you can collaborate with people of your interest on topics of your choose, allowing you to know people on your field, who could gives you an opportunity to work with them. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to connect with other researcher on my field and share our work. Moreover, often it is difficult to find the right paper online, and ResearchGate enables you to find a plenty number of papers, which you can use for research. ### 14. A platform for research and researchers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aananda S. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** Researchgate is one of the best platforms that help to make a link between the researchers or scientists and the one who follows them. It is easy to have a user profile in researchgate and once you have a user profile you can follow the scientists or researchers one you admire. This platform also provides free access to some research papers which could be of great help for the study and different research. The highest number of active users research platform also helps us to collab with different researchers and work on research in different fields. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** Researchgate sends the unwanted spamming emails and updates about the software which may feel dishonorable to the users. As it can be changed through the notifications settings there are no any dislikes I have personally found on this platform. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** Research is one of the best tools for research. It helps to find the best research articles and papers you want and also you can follow the renowned researchers you admire through this platform easily. So, a try is worth for this platform. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding a suitable research paper required for the user was quite difficult and researchgate provided the solution about that problem. Also it helps to link the user and the renowned researchers and scientists which is also is of great help for the beginner researchers. ### 15. ResearchGate to develop researcher profile **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anoj A. | Agriculture Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** It is good, free software platforms that make a user to share research article, working projects and also helps to developed own profile which acts as a resume for the researchers so than people can track all the research information on one click. The best part of the software is that it notifies the user on the addition of articles and projects within the user community. It helps to follow the researcher who is working on the same type of project as well as on an interested project. It also auto connects the research article to the user profile if it belongs to them which are uploaded by any other user. Reading the open assess article directly through the research gate is one of the interesting features. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** I think making groups of the researcher working on related projects and allowing them to share valuable ideas, information and files is lacking. Posting job vacancies on the project can also be developed which will be the strength of this site. The rest of all the experiences is awesome for me. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** It is easy to use and builds your resume so that other can track you at single click. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** I mainly use Research gate link to share my achievements with other people so that they can know me collectively. ### 16. Great! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Benjamin K. | Administration , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** It is such a great website and would definitely recommend it, especially in this crazy time when we are all quarantined! It is such an easy platform to use, download, and navigate. It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** Honestly not so much, maybe except that I am emailed constantly about anything related to my research. Which can be helpful at times but it is extremely constant. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. It is such an easy platform to use, download, and navigate. It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. It also allows me to connect with fellow scientists who are doing similar or related research topics. It is such an easy platform to use, download, and navigate. It allows for quick and easy researching capabilities and I have been able to post my own research as well as search and learn from other research articles. ### 17. A good way to connect with academic peers and network **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** yu c. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** I can reach out to most academic peers using ResearchGate. I can build a network of academic peers using ResearchGate **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** When I get a message from ResearchGate in the email, I have to go to ResearchGate to reply rather than reply it directly in email. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** Please add a function to reply directly in email **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Asking for papers from academic peers and communicating with colleagues Build relationships with people around the world ### 18. opportunity to get good research if you know how **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** starts of as free. allows connecting with collaborators. sharing of publications with opportunity to ask questions to the researchers. the ability to narrow down to certain interest. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** info is not always up to date as far as the people too many emails. there are a lot of college students, not so many researchers. there are a small amount of papers available for free. forcing you to pay at some point. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** being able to get different point of views fro other colleagues.i need to keep my information up to date. noticed duplicates of the same papers are their main focus, allowing a person to think the quality if better than what it is. ### 19. Great website to find research papers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sachin K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 28, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** They have all kind of research papers anyone can look for **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** I found Nothing to dislike this website. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** I will highly recommend research gate for students, professor and for anyone who are looking for research papers **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am writing my thesis and I found lot's of research paper which really help me to geta data and information ### 20. Most Insightful research service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ajinkya B. | Ajinkya, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** It is very comprehensive and covers every topic that i need **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** It has a very time consuming search process **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** Use it wisely. It is the ultimate source of knowledge. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing research papers and project proposals. Understanding complex coursework and innovative new technologies. ### 21. Super useful to share paper and knowledge with collegues **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lorenzo D. | Borsista di Ricerca, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2020 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** The simplicity of the website, it helps researchers to stay connected. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** The website some times sends you too much email, but you can manage your settings. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** I stay connected with other researchers, allowing us to work fastly on certain topics. ### 22. Great place to put academic articles **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael K. D. | Curriculum Developer, E-Learning, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 18, 2019 **What do you like best about ResearchGate?** You can find and post your articles. Great place to network and find potential conferences, or grants. **What do you dislike about ResearchGate?** The interface could be nicer, however, its manageable at this point. **Recommendations to others considering ResearchGate:** Great place to meet likeminded folk. **What problems is ResearchGate solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have a lot of views and keeps me motivated to post my post-conference papers. ## ResearchGate Discussions - [What is ResearchGate used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-researchgate-used-for) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [View ResearchGate pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/researchgate/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+06%3A45%3A29+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=d1523fc4-21f2-4ce3-b4ff-b778cd95284d&secure%5Btoken%5D=04b8ef01e10e63c41d76fffe4c1d550e0048b03a9c5db70be4b14e0d6adcb63c&format=llm_user) ## ResearchGate Features **Agentic AI - Social Networks** - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance ## Top ResearchGate Alternatives - [Facebook](https://www.g2.com/products/facebook/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (741 reviews) - [Diligent Boards](https://www.g2.com/products/diligent-boards/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (496 reviews) - [X (Twitter)](https://www.g2.com/products/x-twitter/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (303 reviews)