Today I dropped two of my professional accounts, that spam me nearly very day.
I can mostly confirm the German Wikipedia entry on Researchgate – a lot of unwanted emails, articles that are wrongly assigned, spider generated user accounts and a rather stupid scoring system.
Do we really need such a thing, any permanent online monitoring of performance scores?
And, well, there is a rather similar experience at LinkedIn. I just don’t need it, whenever you are searching for me, you will find me.
I see a lot of potential for scientific communication in these online platforms, but at the moment there is much noise and little signal.