ResearchGATE is essentially a professional network for scientists. Dubbed as Science 2.0, this site has a very clean look, and the contents are slit up in an easy to navigate menus. At first glance, ResearchGATE is a closed community, which only restricted scientists and researchers to interact with each other, and view each others’ profiles, although one can still sign-up to the site and connect with some of the scientists and researchers with a profile opened there.
Positioned as a social network for scientists. ResearchGATE mentioned it as a professional network, which is a different way of saying social network for professionals, as I perceived; Perhaps many of us will asked do the scientists and researchers around the world need a social site that they can interact each other with?
From a scientist and researcher’s standpoint, it is a good idea to merge the social and research aspects together around the science disciplines so that they can converse with each other based on the research areas. In particular, scientists and researchers can share work and idea with each other, they called it “discussion partners,” or collaborate in a given project on ResearchGATE. However, as a site visitor, you only can query its search engine and read the abstracts of the papers pertaining to your areas of interest, or busy yourself with the tag cloud listed on the sidebar.
To know more about ResearchGATE, it has collaborated with various international research institutions and organizations such as European Students’ Conference, IALS, REBIRTH, etc. in order to build a strong network system for the scientists and researchers.
