Xiaofeng Wang

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaofeng-Wang-35

After some consideration, I deleted my ResearchGate profile. It wasn't a terrible experience, although I never felt comfortable uploading papers to their system. In the end, I decided that belonging to another Facebook-like social network wasn't justified. It feels better to narrow down the social media presence. Online marketing and networking aren't my strengths. Anyone interested in my research can easily find me via a simple search and email message.

@fresseng Thanks for the inspiration!

OMG... I forgot I still had a #ResearchGate account.

As it has become completely useless today, with so many open alternatives, I no longer have one.

And there are other reasons for deleting it too.

The opening sentence of this: "one of the most popular academic social networking sites is [ResearchGate]"

This may be factually correct but it really doesn't feel like it anymore. I always felt that RG was, frankly, $hit, but accepted that it appeared popular among scholars. But today? I rarely come across it.

The Now-Defunct #ResearchGate Score and the Extant Research Interest Score: A Continued Debate on #Metrics of a Highly Popular #Academic #SocialNetworking Site https://doi.org/10.1515/opis-2024-0011

Is there an analog for #researchgate in the #Fediverse?

In a way, https://bookwyrm.social/ comes close to this. Bibliometric information like the number of citations might be taken from different sources like #openalex and #wikidata.

Does anyone have any info on notedsource.io? I've been spammed on LinkedIn, and I've gone through their site, sign-up, etc. and still can't figure out exactly what they do. I thought it was a place like upwork for academics, but so far it just seems like a startup trying to compete with #researchgate--a bunch of academics and nobody else. Not sure I understand how to use the service or what it's really for.

Any info is appreciated, because it's a little mysterious to me, right now.

My vibe is "Basic Bitch of Instagram, but for #researchgate

I'm getting what I believe to be spam followers on #ResearchGate now.

#academia
@academicchatter

meaningless in the grand scheme of things but it matters to me: I asked #ResearchGate to stop leeching #arxiv PDFs without attribution and they actually reuploaded and reindexed all their arxiv-derived content with clear backlinks to the original arxiv submissions

Meet Larry, the world's most cited cat
https://reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/engineering-the-worlds-highest-cited-cat-larry/

"Larry Richardson is officially history’s highest cited cat (according to Google Scholar, at least)."

https://reeserichardson.blog/2024/07/18/engineering-the-worlds-highest-cited-cat-larry/

I wish there was a way to follow researchers' ORCIDs.
- Has someone created a way to do this?
- If not, would it be trivial for a coding-competent person to allow us to get an #email when an #ORCID profile is updated?

Relying on researchers to make followable profiles on #GoogleScholar or #ResearchGate renders loads of #research unfollowable. However, journals often *require* researchers to report (and therefore generate) their ORCID.

#PublicationManagement in the #OnePersonLibrary

In our discipline, #preprint publications are on the rise.

We are currently trying to track how our institute members publish what, when and where.

For example, on #arxiv servers, but also in collaborative writing platforms such as #authorea.

There are also journals like elife that require a preprint for #OpenPeerReview procedures.

Research in #openAlex, #Zenodo, #ResearchGate, #ORCID profiles etc..

#ResearchAssessment discourse

#Publikationsmanagement in der #OnePersonLibrary

In unserer Fachdisziplin nehmen #Preprint-Publikationen zu.

Aktuell versuchen wir nachzuvollziehen, wie unsere Institutsangehörigen wann was wo veröffentlichen.

Etwa auf #arxiv-Servern, aber auch in kollaborativen Schreib-Plattformen wie #authorea.

Es gibt auch Journale wie elife, die ein Preprint für #OpenPeerReview-Verfahren verlangen.

Recherchen in #openAlex, #Zenodo, #ResearchGate, #ORCID-Profilen etc..

#ResearchAssessment-Diskurs

Blimmin’ heck, I’ve been cited a lot in the academic literature. Not bad for a non-academic. #ResearchGate

"Open Access Green und ResearchGate – Wie sollten Bibliotheken damit umgehen?" https://doi.org/10.1515/bd-2024-0034
#OpenAccess #ResearchGate #Bibliothek

I finally created a #ResearchGate account and profile at the urging of a colleague, so I've gone down that rabbit hole in the past week.

@academicchatter