ResearchGate is a social network of scientists and researchers worldwide. It was founded in 2008 by physicians Dr. Ijad Madisch and Dr. Sören Hofmayer, and computer scientist Horst Fickenscher, today has more than 5 million members. It started in Boston, but moved to Berlin, Germany shortly afterwards. In 2009, the company began a partnership with Seeding Labs, in order to supply third-world countries with surplus lab equipment from the United States. The website has more than 2 million articles that members have uploaded.
Everyone is required to have an .edu email address in order to register.
Frequently Asked Questions in ResearchGate: https://explore.researchgate.net/display/support/Help+Center
List of all Topics and Subjects, A-Z, arranged by number of followers:
https://www.researchgate.net/topics/A
Once registered, and logged in, you can easily find people with a paticular subject of interest by doing the following:
1. In the dark box at the top with the magnifying glass to the right, type in a word of your particular interest, eg. traditional, as in traditional.
2. ResearchGate then displays on the right side eight (8) categories:
1) "Researchers with that word in their name: (Hence, you can search for anyone's name to see if they are in ResearchGate.)
2.1 Topics: (This will list all of the topics of people's interest that have the word "traditional" in it, such as Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Tibetan Medicine, Traditional Korean Medicine, etc. For each of these topic areas, it tells how many people worldwide have an interest in that subject who are ResearchGate memebers. And then when you click on the topic itself, it gives you a picture or clickable icon of every person who has that interest.
2.2 People Interested in a Given Topic: Then when you click on the picture of that person, it takes you to that person's page and tells what university or research institution they are associated with, the papers they have written, etc. It tells who that person is following and who is following her. When you click on that person's "Info" button, it also tells all of the interests that person has, other than the topic that led you to her/him, and their areas of expertise. And if you want to get in contact with them by email, on the right side go down to the "Actions" section and click on "Send Message" and it takes you to a message box where you can send an email to the person, but you can't see that person's email address.
3. Questions: Questions that people have asked about the topic, and the number of questions;
4. Publications: Lists all the publications that people have uploaded about that subject. Over 2 million publications have been added to ResearchGate.
5. Open Reviews:
6. Jobs: With that term in it;
7. Institutions: Lists all institutions with that term in their name.For example, there are 27 institutions listed that have the word "Tradition" or "Traditional" in their name, including many of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Universities.
8. Departments: This lists all of the university departments, worldwide that have the word "Traditional" in the name of their department. For example, there are over 100 university departments in the world that have the word "Traditional" as part of their name, most of which are a traditional medicine department. You can find the location of the department by clicking on the name of the university below the name of the department.
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