ResearchGate RG score in the determination of modern pioneers of medicine

ResearchGate has emerged as the single most important tool for the evaluation of physicians’ academic stature, prowess, and scholar productivity, and also for the evaluation of academic leadership and pioneering and the field of medicine. More than 200 ResearchGate profiles were examined during the last four days of August 2021 with aim of determining the modern pioneers of medicine from Iraq who are also called academic medical leaders, who have a scientific reputation (RG) Score at ResearchGate of 40 or higher. Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi was the Iraqi academic medical who had the highest RG Score of 40.46. The findings in this study confirm that ResearchGate is more appropriate for academic medical leadership as it reduce to some extent the influence of misleadingly high H-index that is not relevant to academic leadership deterioration resulting from joining large number of collaborative studies.