RESEARCH GATE SCORE AS AN ASSESSMENT TOOL OF THE STAFF PERFORMANCE IN RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS FROM REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

The positioning of research institutions from Republic of Moldova through Research Gate score will be analyzed in this paper. The aim of Research Gate score ranking is to help researchers and scientists to measure and leverage their standing within the scientific community. Research Gate provides the researchers with a metric that is calculated based on how all of their research is received by their peers, not just the work that have been published. The Research Gate Score focuses on scientists, an ever-growing community of specialists. By opening up the idea of what the research institutions can gain credit for and handing the power to evaluate it, the Research Gate Score puts reputation back into the hands of researchers. The Research Gate Score provides scientists and research institutions with an alternate way to measure its reputation and performance. In this context, it is a useful tool for assessing the research activity of Moldovan universities, but also of comparing the research activity of universities from the Republic of Moldova with those from neighborhood countries.