As LinkedIn continues to reign as the world’s largest social network for the wider working world, we are seeing the rise of alternatives that are besting and beating it in specific verticals.

Meet Ijad Madisch. He's a Berlin-based entrepreneur on a mission to change the way scientists go about their research. The computer science graduate and qualified doctor set up a company called ...

ResearchGate and Pensoft Publishers have expanded their Journal Home partnership to include 40 open-access journals, ...

Creating a social network for scientists is not a revolutionary idea—Academia.edu, Ologeez, and Lab Meeting are all startups that have developed variations of communities for researchers and ...

Berlin (Germany) and London (UK) March 28, 2023 – ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and The Royal Society, the UK’s national science academy and the oldest scientific academy in ...

Hosting an estimated 25 million users, ResearchGate is one of the largest academic networking platforms in the world. But as the site approaches its twentieth anniversary, it is facing growing ...

ResearchGate, a popular social networking site for researchers, has come under fire from publishers because of the way in which scientists share their research on the platform. Meanwhile, publisher ...

ResearchGate, a popular tool used by scholars to share their work, is taking down many researchers' work, apparently in response to demands from publishers. Last week a group of scholarly publishers ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, at left, is among the investors supporting ResearchGate and its CEO, Ijad Madisch. (ResearchGate Photo) Berlin-based ResearchGate, a LinkedIn-type site for scientists, ...

The scholarly publisher Springer Nature and ResearchGate, a Berlin-based academic networking platform, announced the launch of an article-sharing pilot project last Friday (March 1). “Springer Nature ...

A landmark court case in which two major academic publishers sued the popular website ResearchGate for hosting 50 of their copyrighted papers has come to a close — although both sides say that they ...

Several scientific publishers, including the American Chemical Society, are expanding their legal actions against sites that facilitate sharing of scientific articles in violation of copyright law.