ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. According to a 2014 study by Nature and a 2016 article in Times Higher Education, it is the largest academic social network in terms of active users, although other services have more registered users, and a 2015–2016 survey suggests that almost as many academics have Google Scholar profiles. More information...
In June 2020 the website researchgate.net was on the 97th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 141st place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "researchgate.net" is the 151st most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before stanford.edu and after nbcnews.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
BestRef shows popularity and reliability scores for sources in references of Wikipedia articles in different languages. Data extraction based on complex method using Wikimedia dumps. To find the most popular and reliable sources we used information about over 200 million references of Wikipedia articles. More details...