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After logging in to ResearchGATE you will see your start page serving as an information-retrieval center for the entire site.
Widgets
The different sections you see on your start page are called widgets.
Customize widgets: Selecting 'customize your start page' on the right-hand side of your screen will allow you to choose which widgets you see on your start page.
Close widgets: You can close a widget by clicking the 'x' on the upper right-hand corner. If you’d like it back on your start page, go to 'customize your start page', which you see on the right hand side.
Move widgets: You can easily move widgets around by clicking in the upper right-hand corner of the box and dragging it to a new location.
Show more: Here you can get more results depending on the widget.
Overview
News in your network: When something happens in your network (e.g. a new contact is confirmed), we will notify you via automated message in this feed.
Latest comments: Shows the latest comments or new posts made in the groups you belong to.
Public comments: Shows the latest comments made in public groups and enables you to randomly browse the scientific community.
Last visitors: Allows you to see who viewed your profile last.
Researchers you might know: Suggests researchers you might know based on the contacts of your contacts.
Profile completion index: This bar indicates how complete your profile is. We suggest fields that will increase your profile’s completeness.
Recently joined: Shows researchers that have recently joined the ResearchGATE community.
Next appointments: Keeps you informed of upcoming appointments you have made within your groups.
Upcoming birthdays: ResearchGATE reminds you of your confirmed contacts' upcoming birthdays.
Messages
The ResearchGATE’s messaging system enables you to get in contact with researchers directly. ResearchGATE notifies you if you have received a new message in ResearchGATE.
Inbox : The inbox saves all incoming messages. Unread messages will be displayed in bold.
Outbox: The outbox saves all outgoing messages.
Compose and send a message: A message consists of the mandatory field message text and message type, as well as the optional field subject. You can write a message by searching a contact or by replying to a message in your inbox.
Browse through conversation: This function enables you to browse through the entire conversation between you and another researcher.
Reply to a message: If you received a message from a researcher, you can reply directly to his/her message by clicking reply. Subjects of messages get an additional icon, if you already replied to this specific message.
Mark message: Mark messages in both your inbox and outbox as unread or read.
Delete message: Delete messages either by selecting and removing lists of messages or by removing single ones.
Report a message: If you got a message, which is clearly spam or you think that something with the email content is not correct, please report this message to us by clicking "Report message". We will look into this issue and get back to you.
Profile
Your profile provides information about you that can be displayed to other researchers.
About me
This page summarizes important information you want to share with your contacts and other users. This is the first impression of a researcher’s profile and it is designed to resemble a research CV. Here, you can provide information about your research area, skills, education, experience, grants/funding, and personal interests, as well as your professional and private contact data. You can edit your profile in different ways. Click either the title of your profiles menu or “edit” in the menu list.
Export details: Export details from your ResearchGATE profile to a Word document.
Publications
Let other researchers learn more about your research by listing your publications. You can enter journal articles, conference presentations, books and/or chapters, theses, and patents. You can enter your publications manually, search our publication database, or import publications by uploading files created by your reference management software.
Import from ResearchGATE database: Search for your publications easily with the in-house search engine, which contains more than 35,000,000 articles from 7 major databases. Enter a search query (author, title, keywords) and ReFind will display matching publications and allow you to import the appropriate article.
Import from reference management software: Import publications from your reference library if you export them as *.xml file from either Bibtex, RIS, EndNote Version 7-11, or Reference Manager.
From EndNote or Reference Manager: Open your library. Select the 'File' menu and then 'Export'. Select 'XML' as export data type. Click save.
Library
Having a library helps you keep track of papers you find useful, interesting, want to read, and it allows you to share them with others. Build your library by searching for publications with the ResearchGATE search engine, import manually, or import from reference management software. You can also export your library as a *.xml file.
Import from reference management software: go to "Import from files of reference management software"
Clear library: This function enables you to clear your entire library.
Contacts
Groups
Network graph
Network graph is an innovative tool designed by ResearchGATE that allows you to see how your contacts and other researchers are connected within ResearchGATE. You can view network graphs from within your own profile or in another users profile. By selecting either the 'publications' or 'groups' boxes individually, the network graph will visualize these independent connections. The drop down menu offers several options to arrange the connections – e.g, you can sort:
- contacts by city, country, research focus or disciplines
- publications by publishing date or journal title
- groups by number of members or category.
Memo and Tag
Memo
Memos allows you to write a brief note about each of your contacts. This memo is only visible to you, and you can, for example, use it to note where you met a particular contact or to easily recall which lab a contact is working in.
Tag
Tags allows you to sort your contacts in different lists. Just add tags separated by commas to add a contact to one or more specific lists (e.g., personal, lab group, specific disciplines).
Settings
Configure settings for your account.
Account settings
Account data: E-mail, password, first name and last name can be changed in this menu.
Time zone: Change your current time zone. This will effect the time and dates of forum posts, etc.
Privacy settings
Choose who sees your information. You can set separate options for your personal profile data, research data and private and business contact data. Please note that your name, current research facility (institution/university) and current research projects are always visible to all ResearchGATE members.
Notifications
ResearchGATE can notify you when actions are taken that involve you. Configure each notification individually so ResearchGATE can keep you up-to-date. Notifications are divided in Profile Notifications and News in your network notifications:
Publish links
Share your ResearchGATE profile with your colleagues and friends using one of these badges. They allow you to link conveniently to your ResearchGATE profile from your email signature, website or blog!
Search
ResearchGATE helps you to find what you are looking for.
Searchbox
Type in any item or subject you are looking for (e.g., a medical term, an acronym, researcher's name, etc.) into the search box on the upper left-hand side of your profile.
Our internal search engine will show you all occurrences of the search term within the entire network including profiles, groups, papers and other resources.
Firefox integration
In order to improve access to our much-acclaimed search engine, we have made integration into your Mozilla Firefox browser possible. When using ResearchGATE, click on the search engine field on the right-hand side of the window and select 'Add ResearchGATE'. From this point on, you will be able to use our semantic search from any web page, and it will take you straight to the desired results.