
To further improve the score and make it more accessible, we’ve made some recent updates to how your Research Interest Score is calculated and how it’s displayed in your profile stats section.
Citations have been one of the longest-standing measures of research impact. At the same time, researchers are reading and learning from each other’s work on ResearchGate every day. These interactions can impact future research, but not all of them result in citations. That’s why using citations alone in measuring impact can underrepresent the full impact of a piece of research. The Research Interest Score is our solution to this, as it combines reads from ResearchGate members, recommendations, and citations to form a more holistic measure of impact within the scientific community.
To better represent your impact in your field and on your peers, we’ve recently updated the calculation of the score to exclude self-citations — when an author of a citing publication overlaps with the authors of a cited publication. This helps ensure your score is a true reflection of others’ interest in your work. As a result of this update, you may see a change in your Research Interest Score.
A way to compare yourself to your peersBecause we calculate the Research Interest Scores of each of our members, we can provide powerful ways for you to compare yourself to others on the platform in three ways:
It’s important to us that the Research Interest Score stays both intuitive and transparent. For more details on how the score is calculated and weighted, please visit our Help Center.