Complex sentence: ResearchGate statistics seem to largely reproduce traditional academic reputations based on citation indexes, and ResearchGate scores exhibited strong correlations with selected Quacquarelli Symonds citation and reputation metrics at the institutional level, but only a weak correlation with Elsevier SciVal metrics at the author level.
Split into simpler sentences: ResearchGate statistics seem to largely reproduce traditional academic reputations based on citation indexes. In one study, ResearchGate scores exhibited strong correlations with selected Quacquarelli Symonds citation and reputation metrics at the institutional level, but only a weak correlation with Elsevier SciVal metrics at the author level.