Disrupting Science Research with a Social Network
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A social network for accredited researchers that claims to speed discovery by forcing real data sharing: 7 million researchers on the platform, uploads hitting 2 million publications every four weeks after an initial 2M in the first 50 months. Investors include Benchmark, Founders Fund and a personal Bill Gates stake after a $35M round. Concrete wins: crowdsourced reproduction exposed a fabricated high‑profile stem‑cell paper and a Nigeria–Italy–US collaboration identified a novel human‑infecting yeast. Built features include a new ResearchGate format to replace PDFs; main problems are scale, discovery and multilingual access.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:47What is ResearchGate
- 2:45How Ijad started ResearchGate
- 5:43How big is ResearchGate
- 6:27How fast is ResearchGate growing
- 7:34How ResearchGate works
- 9:15The problem of peer review
- 11:25The evidence of ResearchGate
- 12:43Traditional scientific publishing infrastructure
- 13:59Product development challenges
- 16:41Davids presentation
- 17:43The bottom line
- 19:04Entrepreneurship in Germany
- 20:50Questions
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