Taxacom: Research Gate question - reads are views

[Deborah Paul]

Hi John,

On 2022-11-17 12:39 PM, John Grehan via Taxacom wrote:
> Hopefully someone on this list is familiar enough with the workings of
> ResearchGate to answer a simplistic question. Periodically I get
> notifications of having so many 'reads' of a particular article. I am
> presuming this means that individuals have read or viewed the article, but
> is that through ResearchGate only or in general (i.e. RG is vacuuming it up
> from other sources)?

 From Research Gate, see this link 
https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexplore.researchgate.net%2Fdisplay%2Fsupport%2FReads&data=05%7C01%7Ctaxacom%40lists.ku.edu%7Ca86f57f081bf4179fa3508dac8d75ac9%7C3c176536afe643f5b96636feabbe3c1a%7C0%7C0%7C638043124550537351%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AuiXWIv5%2FxL%2BQ5WL46LGxYKvHJwBXCuEWNlDBnZlrlc%3D&reserved=0

excerpt:? " ...For a publication, a??*read*??is counted each time 
someone views the publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and 
list of authors), clicks on a figure linked to the publication (either 
directly on the publication page or via the home feed), or views or 
downloads the full-text, if there is one.

To show how engaged viewers are with your research, you will also be 
able to see the *full-text reads* metric for your own publications. For 
publications, a '*full-text read'*?is counted each time someone views or 
downloads the full-text.

For questions and projects, a *?read?*?is counted each time someone 
views the question or project page. A *?read?*?of a project update or an 
answer in Q&A is only counted if someone looks at that particular 
project update or answer."

Also excerpt: "... To make sure *reads*?gives you an accurate picture of 
the attention your research is getting,?a read isn't counted when you or 
one of your co-authors access your own publication, when you view your 
own question, answer, or project update, or if you or a collaborator 
looks at one of your own projects. It is also not counted when your work 
is accessed by an artificial traffic source (such as a robot or bot)."

Hope that helps,

Debbie

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