Le site researchgate.net est-il sûr ?

Website provides a hosting service for academic and scholarly journal articles uploaded by authors. The problem is that it accepts articles that are copyrighted. There is no check to confirm open access or Creative Commons licensing. Some articles are even misattributed to people who DID NOT write them! This is misleading, unethical, and possibly illegal. I don't know what percentage of the articles are legitimate. Also, by signing up with an email address to use this website, you will get lots of unwanted spam emails.

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My boss got an invitation this morning, allegedly from me. The time this invitation was sent was while I was asleep. I do not remember ever inviting him. I consider this no less than phishing. The website itself looked great, kind of an academic LinkedIn. I get spammed about open positions etc. It's quite annoying, but I guess that if I look hard enough I can unsubscribe from these emails.