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I have no sympathy for researchgate. They syphon papers, they used black patterns early on to mass-send emails to invite people on the platform. And finally, as
by sega_sai 5y ago
I have no sympathy for researchgate. They syphon papers, they used black patterns early on to mass-send emails to invite people on the platform. And finally, as a researcher, I never found researchgate to be actually useful.
- superkuh 5y agoThere's no denying the site itself is a bit shady, most of my IP addresses are blocked. I find myself using researchgate hosted full text pdfs pretty regularly the last handful of years. At least a few times a month. This is far better than there being no pdfs at all. I don't really care about how researchgate tries to run their site beyond this.
- ok123456 5y agoBut at least there's the network effect of getting access to papers, which is more than you can say about most social networks.