I guess it makes a change from being sued.
ResearchGate and Wiley expand partnership to encompass
majority of publisher’s open access portfolio
https://www.researchgate.net/press-newsroom/researchgate-and-wiley-expand-partnership
I guess it makes a change from being sued.
ResearchGate and Wiley expand partnership to encompass
majority of publisher’s open access portfolio
https://www.researchgate.net/press-newsroom/researchgate-and-wiley-expand-partnership
Missed this from last September (2023)
ACS, Elsevier, and ResearchGate resolve litigation, with solution to support researchers
QuoteACS and Elsevier, members of the Coalition for Responsible Sharing, have agreed to a legal settlement with ResearchGate that ensures copyright-compliant sharing of research articles published with ACS or Elsevier on the ResearchGate site. The lawsuits pending against ResearchGate in Germany and the United States are now resolved. The specific terms of the parties’ settlement are confidential.
Problems with ResearchGate
I know they have been messing about with the site recently, doing things like removing the "RG Score" (which was fairly meaningless), and removing "projects", however it now seems impossible to display a list of the researchers you are following.
If you visit a researcher's profile, you can still click on "follow" - but there currently seems to be no way to find out who you are already following. The only thing you can list is the papers, questions, and topics that you are "following".
There still seems to be a way to see who else is following your own profile - although the link seems well hidden.
Anyone know what is going on?
I used to think RG had too mucj Facebook features like those you mention now gone, but I came to like many of those to keep up with the people one follows, and now they made it not easy. Really don’t know what is going on, but I find RG is not as useful as it was.
Yeah, some of the changes seem to have made it worse in many ways.
I do wonder whether some users were doing "mass followings" - since I now have quite a number of followers that I've never interacted with, downloaded papers from, or followed - and I haven't even uploaded any articles. I did used to comment on questions - but I've not done that for a couple of years.
I guess they have been rather busy with their legal cases - so possibly ignored development for a while in case they had to shut down.
I used to find it better than Academia.edu - but I'm not so sure now.
do wonder whether some users were doing "mass followings" - since I now have quite a number of followers that I've never interacted with, downloaded papers from, or followed - and I haven't even uploaded any articles
Me too. In my case they seem to think I am interested in dyestuffs.
I was a member of RG. They did not respond to multiple complaints of abuse of the platform so I cancelled my account. They just don’t care unless it affects their profits directly, IMO.
And since their highest "full reads" belong to quack pseudoscience authors with a prison record, they obviously don't care about author integrity.