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This is exactly what ResearchGate aims to be - a social networking platform for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

In this interview [1] Ijad Madisch the founder & CEO of ResearchGate envisions ResearchGate to be a home for negative results.

[1] http://www.zmescience.com/other/interviews/qa-with-dr-ijad-m...

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The idea is good, but the execution is LinkedIn-level horrible. Dark patterns everywhere, useless gamification which promotes low quality content, etc.

Yeah research gate has some of the most awful dark patterns/invitation spam of any social networking site. Co-authors constantly inviting you to join, convincing you people that are not on the site are on the site, etc...

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