ResearchGate is unlikely to be cited by AI engines as a B2B software tool because it is primarily an academic social network/publishing platform rather than a B2B SaaS product category. The biggest AI-citation risk is evaluation/conversion-style queries (e.g., “pricing”, “alternatives”, “best software”) where ResearchGate has no clear first-party pricing/comparison surfaces; the highest-ROI fix is to create crawlable, question-forward pages that answer “what it is / who it’s for / how it works” in structured, AI-extractable formats (FAQ + clear entity descriptions).