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Profile photos

Your profile photo helps your peers recognize you and increases the visibility of your research. Profiles with photos get up to 3 times more views than those without, and they are more visible to search engines.

As ResearchGate is a professional network, your profile photo should reflect your professional identity. Please don’t add a photo of anyone (or anything) else.

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Adding or changing your profile photo

To add a new profile photo, follow these steps:

  1. Go to your Profilearrow-up-right

  2. Click on Edit at the top of your profile, to the right of your name.

  3. Click Add profile photo or Change profile photo

  4. Select Upload a photo to choose a file from your device, or Take photo to use your device's camera (Note: You may need to allow ResearchGate to access your camera)

  5. Crop your photo by dragging it, or zoom in or out using the +/- icons

  6. Click Save to confirm your changes.

Photo requirements

When adding your photo, please keep the following technical requirements in mind:

  • File Format: We support *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.gif, or *.png formats

  • Size: Your image must be at least 180x180 pixels and no larger than 4MB

  • Shape: We suggest using a photo that will fit inside a circle.

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Deleting your profile photo

To delete your profile photo:

  1. Go to your Profilearrow-up-right

  2. Click on Edit at the top of your profile, to the right of your name

  3. Click on Change profile photo

  4. Click the trash can icon at the top right-hand side

  5. Click Save to confirm your changes.

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FAQs

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Why is my deleted profile photo still appearing in search results?

Once a profile photo has been removed from ResearchGate, its old URL redirects to our main homepage or researcher index. We cannot control what the major search engines choose to keep on their search results, and it may often take some time for these pages to disappear from results due to the speed with which search engines manage and index changes to web pages.

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What should I do if someone else used my photo as their profile photo?

If you’d like to report a ResearchGate profile for using your photo, please follow these steps:

  1. Visit our Report content on ResearchGatearrow-up-right form

  2. Select the type of issue that best describes your report

  3. Enter details about the content you are reporting.

Our Community Support team will review your message and take appropriate action.

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