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The ResearchGate Score: a good example of a bad metric

According to ResearchGate, the academic social networking site, their RG Score is “a new way to measure your scientific reputation”. With such high aims, Peter Kraker, Katy Jordan and Elisabeth Lex take a closer look at the opaque metric. By reverse engineering the score, they find that a significant weight is linked to ‘impact points’ – a similar metric to the widely discredited journal impact factor. Transparency in metrics is the only way scholarly measures can be put into context and the only way biases – which are inherent in all socially created metrics – can be uncovered.

Bill Gates Backs “Open Science” Social Network ResearchGate In Push For Nobel Prize

Most social network founders want to make money. Ijad Madisch, the scientist-CEO behind ResearchGate, has a higher goal: He wants to win a Nobel Prize for the network. Five years after its founding, Madisch's plan doesn’t seem so far-fetched. ResearchGate, which has been described as “LinkedIn for scientists,” has 2.9 million users — about half of the international scientific community. Madisch has built a list of success stories in which scientists used ResearchGate to speed up their work. And as of now, he’s got a formidable supporter you may have heard of: Bill Gates. readwrite.

On the Open Access Days in Vienna

On the Open Access Days in Vienna

This article describes the importance of open access data from scientists for scientists referring to the RG-score at ResearchGate.

In German.

Die Tageszeitung (taz).

See also the review by Universität Wien, Universitätsbibliothek (Vienna university library) with slides  by Björn Brembs and others. Also in German.

Ijad Madisch, CEO of Researchgate.com in an interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Ijad Madisch, CEO of Researchgate.com in an interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung

In an interview with Swiss Newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) Ijad Madisch talks about the alternative to the Impact Factor: the new RG Score shall value scientific papers published on researchgate.com. 

Madisch talks also about his aim to integrate professors into the open science process, because to his mind they often do not believe in the value of sharing information.

In German.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung.