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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

ResearchGate, a social network for scientists backed by Bill Gates, has started introducing targeted adverts to its platform in a bid to boost revenues. Founded in 2008 by Horst Fickenscher, Ijad ...

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Taylor & Francis, a world-renowned academic publisher, today announced a new partnership, with 200 Taylor & Francis journals now available ...

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 ...

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