A 2016 article in Times Higher Education reported that in a global survey of 20,670 people who use academic social networking sites, ResearchGate was the dominant network and was twice as popular as others: 61 percent of respondents who had published at least one paper had a ResearchGate profile.
2016年《泰晤士报高等教育》的一篇文章称，在一项对20,670名使用学术社交网站的人进行的全球调查中，ResearchGate 是占主导地位的网络，其受欢迎程度是其他网络的两倍: 在至少发表过一篇论文的受访者中，61% 的人拥有 ResearchGate 的资料。