ResearchGate
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- Iyad Madisch
- Sören Hofmayer
- Horst Fickenscher
ResearchGate is a social networking site on the Internet, which is aimed at researchers from all fields of science. Since its launch in May 2008, the platform has won and based in Boston and Berlin until September 2012 two million members worldwide.
Background
In the professional network users can publish, upload articles and share, exchange ideas and research problems and find collaborators. Scientists can also publish on the side raw data, technical articles and data on " failed " experiments in order to prevent a repetition of mistakes in research. Around 10 million full texts and 40 million abstracts are available on the platform.
A metric for measuring scientific reputation, the RG score is intended to help researchers to get feedback in real time and for all their publications. The system should enable them to make themselves independent of the publication in scientific publications a name. In a job market users find international job opportunities in the field of research and science. Technically, Research gate on the publication pages on the open standard COinS.
Many scientific organizations and institutions such as the International Academy of Life Sciences ( IALS ), the European Science Foundation and the Society for Virology ( GfV ) use ResearchGate as a platform for communication between members and participants. Numerous professors from international universities to guarantee the quality and independence in an Advisory Board.
The best-known German customer is the Max Planck Society, which wants to link with the help of ResearchGate their knowledge on the internet.
In September 2010, topped with Benchmark Capital, the financier of Ebay, AOL, and Twitter, as well as Accel Partners (Facebook) two venture capitalists from Silicon Valley, with several million dollars in the German startup one.
2013 participate investors, including Bill Gates, with a total of 35 million dollars to the Berlin-based startup companies.
Awards
ResearchGate has the German Entrepreneur Award 2012 received Startup in the category, which is awarded by the Harvard Club of Germany. ResearchGate has received " Digital Innovation of the Year 2014" award from Focus Magazine's.