# ResearchGate

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/researchgate/  
**Website:** https://www.researchgate.net  
**APIs profiled:** 0

ResearchGate is a professional network and social platform for scientists and researchers, founded in 2008 in Berlin, Germany. Members use it to share and discover research publications, connect and collaborate with colleagues, ask and answer questions, and track the reach and citations of their work. The platform hosts tens of millions of researcher profiles and a large corpus of full-text papers, and is operated by ResearchGate GmbH. It exposes no publicly documented developer API surface; this profile was surfaced via the dragoneer portfolio and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.

## Kin Score — 2.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 2.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Researchgate Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer Internet, Research, Academic, Social Network, Publishing, Science

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/researchgate/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.