Scholarly Publications: Creating and Maintaining a ResearchGate Profile

ResearchGate is an "academic social network" that aims "to connect researchers and make it easy for them to share and access scientific output, knowledge, and expertise."  Although ResearchGate was primarily established for use by researchers in the physical and biological sciences, it has grown to include faculty, students, and researchers across all academic disciplines including faculty from most top business schools.  Establishing and maintaining a presence on ResearchGate is a way for Darden School of Business faculty to further promote their research.

1. Go to the ResearchGate homepage and click the button labeled Join for Free.
   
   
   
2. On the next screen, select Academic Researcher.
   
   
   
3. Fill out the form with University of Virginia as your institution and Darden School of Business as your department.  Do not add your area to the department name.
   
   
   
4. Fill out the next page with your name and Darden email address and select a password.
   
   
   
5. ResearchGate will now suggest publications for you to add to your profile based on your name.  Click I am the author for any publications that belong to you, and This is not me for all others.
   Depending on how many publications you have and how common your name is, you may have to wade through several researchers before reaching publications that are actually yours.  You can also choose to click Skip this step to add publications later.
   
   
   
   
   Note: Please uncheck the box that's labeled Invite my co-authors to ResearchGate.
6. On the next screen, select your disciplines by clicking on Economics and then selecting up to 9 areas of focus.  The Economics option should cover most disciplines present at Darden, but additional disciplines can also be selected if your research is interdisciplinary.
   
   
   
7. The next page will ask you to add your skills and expertise and allows you to further expand upon the disciplines you selected in the previous step.
8. Add a profile picture.
9. Finally, ResearchGate will ask you to follow researchers.  Select other Darden faculty as well as co-authors and anyone else whose work you are interested in from the suggestions provided.  You will also be able to follow additional researchers later.
   
   
   
10. You will now be taken to your homefeed, which will display updates made by the researchers you follow.  
11. Please see the Adding Publications and Editing Your Profile pages of this guide for your next steps.