Social media seems like a natural fit for the scientific community. Science is, after all, about the sharing of information, and scientists often collaborate with each other in their work.

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Ijad Madisch started ResearchGate in 2008 to change the scientific method, and depending on where you sit, that either is or isn’t as ambitious as it sounds. Madisch isn’t on a crusade to overturn the ...

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 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 ...

The American Chemical Society and Elsevier have reached a legal settlement with the academic social networking site ResearchGate. The two scientific publishers had taken ResearchGate to court in ...

Startup ResearchGate, a social network for scientists, has raised $35 million in Series C financing led by Bill Gates and Tenaya Capital for its goal of making scientific research more transparent.

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.

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 ...