ResearchGate is abused for citation boosting: evidence provided by 'public' advertisement
Here I 'save' some details of a discussion I started in ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/post/Hard_evidence_for_how_RG_is_abused_by_fake_profiles_Artificial_citation_boosting During the investigation of a profile (in the meantime removed) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clementine-Williams I stumbled on the following advertisement: https://it.fiverr.com/elena__georgiou/increase-google-scholar-citations-by-using-researchgate-and-other-journals See also the following screenshot (in case the website disappears...): and: In other words, RG is used (abused...) to artificially boost citations. So, based selling 'papers' (known as paper mill operations ) some made it into a business model to sell citations (let's call this: citation boosting 'services') see also: all with an overview of the costs of this 'service': She takes some pride in her 'works', if you click (while being on the website) here: then you end up here: see for ano...