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!

#researchgate

@fresseng
#researchgate is indeed a parasite of science, pumping articles, faking invitations of scientists to others, faking biographic page of scientists and their lab, being omnipresent in the first results in most search engines... The Wikipedia page is for instance quite explicit about it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearchGate

@fresseng I never had one because of their growth-via-relentless -spamming business plan, and when they created a profile for me and expected me to “claim” it, I insisted they delete it. They recreated it some time later 🙄 The CEO of #ResearchGate bragged about how it’s all about harvesting researchers’ data in order to advertise at them, so I want nothing to do with it. Annoyingly, some senior researchers I know seem to think it’s a #preprint server.

@da5nsy The answer is mostly answered by the actions taken by @bonfire

#researchgate basically enables users to talk about science (papers, conference announcements …). That's just about all I like about it.

Please look at their #openscience goals

https://bonfirenetworks.org/app/open-science/

@devSJR Can you say more about what you like about #researchgate that you'd want in a new fediverse-compatible system? I think I'm struggling to understand because I see #researchgate as just a capitalist version of #scihub (just a big internet pile of PDFs) but I suspect I'm missing something since I'm not a frequent user

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.

#FediHelp