How many of you use research gate?
Once I figured out I could turn of all the fucking spam emails, it actually works pretty well. When I publish a new paper I just upload the pdf there, and if anyone searches for the paper in google scholar then the pdf is automatically linked to it. And then I get some stats on how often it's been viewed, and who viewed it etc.
Here's a pretty girl to grab your attention.
No?
>Not submitting to journals, their university, or arXiv
>>8282632
kek, of course I submit to journals. I'm just saying, if the journal where I published a paper has a paywall, I can effectively make the paper open access by uploading the pdf to researchgate.
arXiv is love, arXiv is life
>>8282657
just curious, do you get any insight into user statistics when uploading to arXiv?
plebs
>>8282582
>>8282600
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>>8282697
>implying anyone on /sci/ does any actual research
>>8282723
well, I do, so there are probably others too
Oh come on
>>8282723
I've got shit up on researchgate. My views are shit since all my current publications are in a small field, but nearly everyone that publishes in the field has cited my work. I recently changed groups though (graduated and got a postdoc) to something that is more mainstream and we have a major manuscript coming out soon so I expect things to start going up quickly.
>>8282775
how common is it for people in your field to upload things to RG?
Every time I google a question and a ResearchGate discussion comes up, I avoid it like the plague. In my experience (in my field), the only people on there are a bunch of ESL retards who give conflicting and usually incorrect answers.
And nobody ever puts papers up there, either. Wastamytime
>>8282888
What's your field?
>>8282894
Remote Sensing.