Peter Kraker, Katy Jordan and Elisabeth Lex. Some conferences publish 300 words abstracts in the special issues of some journals. The continuous analysis of relevant national, regional, and global gambling statistical data helps in the assessment of the effectiveness of RG practices and how they correlate with gambling participation rates, problem gambling rates, personal gambling expenses, and so on. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. We believe, that with the combined effort of everyone, gambling addiction can be safely eradicated. The RG Score is a metric that measures scientific reputation based on how all of your research is received by your peers. The independent source for RG knowledge and practices. There are a number of interesting ideas in the RG Score: including research outputs other than papers (e.g. There is a prevalent view in the bibliometrics community that transparency and openness are important features of any metric. In the Leiden Manifesto, there is one firm principle against this practice: “Allow those evaluated to verify data and analysis”.

It should be noted that Peter’s behaviour on the platform has been relatively stable over this timeframe. This section will also serve as a calendar for RG events where website users can easily get information about upcoming conferences and exhibitions that relate to RG. Interestingly, the correlation is not linear but logarithmic. Unfortunately, that is not enough information to reproduce one’s own score. Further muddying the water, the algorithm used to calculate the RG Score is changing over time. The results of our our evaluation of the RG Score were rather discouraging: while there are some innovative ideas in the way ResearchGate approached the measure, we also found that the RG Score ignores a number of fundamental bibliometric guidelines and that ResearchGate makes basic mistakes in the way the score is calculated. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. I know of researchers on Researchgate who have high RG scores despite not having published in journals with impact factor. Validity is interesting but difficult. Would love your thoughts, please comment. This revealed a strong correlation between impact points (which, for a single paper academic, is simply the Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of that one papers’ journal). My complaint was about the fact that they count as an article anything that is published in a journal. IF RG is the research gate, it should keep itself out. Elisabeth Lex is assistant professor at Graz University of Technology and she heads the Social Computing research area at Know-Center GmbH. Research community and industry experts contribute significantly to the promotion and implementation of responsible gambling practices.

According to ResearchGate, the score includes the research outcomes that you share on the platform, your interactions with other members, and the reputation of your peers (i.e., it takes into consideration publications, questions, answers, followers). This makes it impossible to compare the RG Score over time, further limiting its usefulness. For full details please read our Privacy and Cookies policies. RG News and Events section would keep you up-to-date with the latest news regarding responsible gambling such as RG-related regulatory updates, industry innovations and initiatives. If you've just signed up and confirmed authorship of a significant number of publications, please be patient, as the score is only updated once per week. The results were presented at a recent workshop on Analysing and Quantifying Scholarly Communication on the Web (ASCW’15 – introductory post here) in a position paper and its discussion.

Updated weekly, the RG Score is a single number that is attached to a researcher’s profile. Thanks for this content. 1. These RG-related publications would be adequately used to assess the effectiveness of RG practices. It's also relative, it can go up or down depending on the activity and scores of other ResearchGate members. The RG Score is a metric that measures scientific reputation based on how all of your research is received by your peers.