@kjschmid ResearchGate has always confused me. Genuine potential to be a unifying, public repository for everyone's academic track record, and yet somehow, it always feels half baked, and almost predatory in its data harvesting. Everyone's on it and yet no one talks about it. Weird. #academicchatter@academicchatter
@gpollara@kjschmid@academicchatter yeah, similar here. I think the business case for an "academic LinkedIn" was never very strong, so they are increasingly pivoting towards publication, trying to position themselves somewhere between scihub, biorxiv and the journals. I'm not sure they've really found the sweet spot yet, and this collaboration with MDPI doesn't bode well...