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Researchgate: Are you kidding?

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I lack a Researchgate account, but I noticed that Researchgate has created a fake profile about me where they are archiving works from mine whereas miss-attributing one of them to inexistent coworkers. My paper published on the International Journal of Thermodynamics is miss-attributed to two inexistent coworkers Juan Ramon and Callen Casas-Vazquez , when I am the only author. I tried to join up to correct this blatant error, but due to lacking an institutional email, my request wasn't processed automatically but followed a manual verification procedure. I provided links to my published works and links to the works already archived by Researchgate. Moreover, during the process, the software automatically found some other works from mine. Today I received a rejection letter: Dear Juan Ramón González Álvarez, Thank you for your interest in ResearchGate. Unfortunately we were unable to approve your account request. I accepted the rejection, because it is their site and t