Contacting other researchers

ResearchGate's private messaging feature is a great way to communicate with your peers and colleagues. You can use it to stay in touch with relevant researchers, share interesting findings, discuss your work, and even connect with potential collaborators.

How to send a private message

At ResearchGate, we want to ensure that interactions between our members remain professional and useful. To protect your privacy and reduce unwanted messages, we have limited the messaging feature: you can only send a private message to people who follow you.

If you are followed by the researcher you wish to contact, you have two ways to send a message:

1. From your Messages inbox:

   1. Click the envelope icon at the top right-hand side of any page.

   2. Select Send message at the top right-hand corner of the dropdown menu.

   3. Compose your message.

2. From a researcher's profile:

   1. Go to the profile page of the researcher you'd like to message.

   2. Click the Message button to compose your message.

Note: Private messages are only visible to the sender and recipient

How to delete a private message conversation

To delete a conversation from your inbox:

1. Click the envelope icon at the top right-hand side of any ResearchGate page and then click View all.

2. Click on the conversation you would like to delete to open it.

3. Click on the three dots you see above the message thread.

4. You will have the options to Archive conversation or Delete conversation. Select Delete conversation.

How to contact another researcher when not a member

For privacy reasons, messaging on ResearchGate is only available to logged-in members. We are unable to share the personal contact details of any researcher, nor can we forward messages to them on your behalf.

If you are a researcher and would like to join the community, you can sign up here.