Adding your professional experience and education history to your profile is a great way for potential collaborators to learn about you and your achievements.
You can add all your current and past institutional affiliations in the Affiliations and Education sections of your profile.
What is a primary or additional affiliation?
Your primary affiliation is the institution where you currently work or conduct research. If you have multiple current affiliations, your primary affiliation is the place where you do most of your research.
An additional affiliation is any other institution where you work or conduct research. You can also add institutions where you previously worked as additional affiliations.
Your primary affiliation will also be displayed at the top of your profile, next to your name.
How can I add my institutional affiliations to my profile?
To add a current or past institutional affiliation, go to the Affiliations section of your profile. You can add a primary or additional affiliation by clicking in the blank area of each section or on Edit in the section's header.
You can also add your education history in the Education section of your profile.
When adding a new affiliation or education entry, you can select from the institutions in our database or enter your institution’s name as text. If your institution is in our database, your affiliation or education entry will link to the institution’s page.
To keep our institution records accurate and up to date, we may occasionally update the names of institutions in our database. Affiliations or Education entries that link to an institution page will be updated automatically.
You can edit your institutional affiliations and education history at any time.
Can I add multiple affiliations?
You can add all of your current or previous affiliations in the Affiliations section of your profile.
- Go to your profile
- Go to the Affiliations section of your profile and click Edit
- Click on Add your additional affiliations or on the Add affiliation button
- Enter details about your affiliation and click Save
- Click the Finish editing button in the section's header.
How can I change my primary affiliation?
You can edit your primary affiliation by following these steps:
- Go to your profile
- Click on Edit next to your name and profile photo
- Click the Edit primary affiliation and location button in the box that appears
- Enter details about your new primary affiliation and click Save
- If you want to keep your previous primary affiliation on your profile, you can add it as an additional affiliation.
How can I change my additional affiliation(s)?
You can edit your additional affiliations by following these steps:
- Go to your profile
- Go to the Affiliations section of your profile and click Edit
- Then click Edit below the affiliation that you want to update
- Update your affiliation details and click Save
- Click the Finish editing button in the section's header once you're done making changes.
Publications are missing from my institution/department
At the moment, publications on ResearchGate are only attributed to one institution/department. As publications are carried out at a particular institution/department, they are only included in the publication count for the institution/department that we identify using the publication's metadata, rather than the author's current affiliation.
We have not yet finished extracting data and assigning publications, and we are constantly working on optimizing our algorithms, so if your publication should be affiliated to your department but is not yet, this will eventually happen automatically if the affiliation is mentioned in the publication's metadata or full-text. We are, unfortunately, unable at the time to edit the affiliation part of the metadata ourselves.