ResearchGate for Android

The developers need to use a framework to get better cross-platform functionality. The Mobile app is tiny and unusable.

There is no dark theme. It is very hard to use in the dark environment. Please, add the dark theme!

Who are they trying to fool with this app? The website is bug ridden, very poorly designed and malfunctioning. Group links never load for me but I always get pesky notifications and I only download the app garbage because I thought I’d be able to leave the group from it. It’s very unfortunate that RG became the Facebook of scientists, because the website couldn’t be worse. Shame on you RG team.

I really like that I can do research and read scientific articles with ease on my smart phone, but the search feature in the app needs improvement. There is no way to filter results. Even something as simple as “most recent” for a filter would help find articles. Would love to see this app expand and grow to a more functional platform. Hopefully they can make some more improvements. Also, it would be nice to simply “bookmark” an article instead of “following” it.

I have been using ResearchGate for over a year but have been deeply disappointed in it lately. My recent search for articles has come up fruitless. I found 20+ articles which may have had information pertinent to my research, but most of these were available by request only. So I pressed the “request to read full article” button, but it’s been over a week and I have had only one response from an author who stated “he didn’t have access to his paper anymore”. Now; I’m not giving a low rating because of his response, I’m giving a low rating for the lack of response from the other 20+ requests. I just wonder what value this app has if most of its articles are available upon request, and most of these requests are not responded too? I recommend ResearchGate makes providing the full article mandatory when posting on their site because otherwise their site is useless. I mean as a scientist, why would you post to have written a paper without posting the paper itself. That’s not the name of the game here.