Proving that you’re an expert at something can be difficult, just as it’s tricky to find a pro for a specialized task. ResearchGate made both easier with a new feature, Endorsements.

Find specialists and display your scientific expertise

Be endorsed: It’s a simple way to find out who’s the specialist for every job at hand, and to display your scientific expertise. List your research skills on your profile and let your followers and co-authors endorse them.

And endorse: Why not return the favor? Endorsements are a way to show appreciation, so if you can vouch for a researcher’s expertise, give it a click! You know a lot about your research partners. That’s why you can add a skill to their profile if you notice that it’s missing. And if they approve, they will automatically be endorsed by you.

Endorsements will make it easier for you to find and connect to the expert you’re looking for: for collaboration, online peer-review and more.

The next time you are applying for a job or a grant, your profile will be full of references certifying your expertise in anything from antibody testing to zinc extraction.

Go and endorse!

Something unclear? Not working? Just shoot us a mail, we’d appreciate it!

Sometimes, something very small can make all the difference. A few figures, a dataset or protocol, attached to a private message, for example, might be all you need to move forward in your research.               

And because your research is all we have in mind here at ResearchGate, we’ve developed a new tool to help you out: you can now add attachments to the private messages you send to your peers. No email exchange necessary – everything stays at hand and in one place.

Just drag and drop or select your files from your computer to attach them to your message.

Now let the messaging begin!

Noticed a glitch? Please let us know. As always, we appreciate your feedback and look forward to hearing from you

Here at ResearchGate, we know your research isn't limited to the articles you've published. Think of all the datasets and negative results that never make the final cut – we don’t think this non-peer-reviewed work should sit and gather dust on your desk.

Our new publishing feature lets you publish anything, whether it’s been through the peer-review process or not. Here’s how it works.

How do I publish?

Think of your profile as your own personal publishing platform. All you have to do is pick what type of research you want to publish, upload the file, and then fill out the details. It couldn't be simpler.



Each file will be given its own page so that other researchers can cite it and provide you with feedback on it.



What can I publish?

This is the best bit: you can publish anything you like. Here’s what other researchers have published so far:

Go to your profile, publish, and start building reputation based on your entire research output.

We’ve revamped, reworked and redesigned our profile to give you a better way to promote your work, skills and contributions.

Here’s a little of what you can expect from our update:

About Me: You can now let people know what you’re working on easily and efficiently. Use the new about me box to introduce yourself and your current project to the network.



Activity page: We’ve created a page for all your activity on ResearchGate, making it much easier for your followers to access your contributions and stay current with what you’re working on and interacting with.

In-line editing: Keep your profile up to date effortlessly. We’ve removed the ‘Edit profile’ page and introduced in-line editing, meaning you can now update everything directly from your profile.

Impact points: In an effort to make the way we calculate your impact points more transparent, we’ve broken them down by publication, giving you an overall number too.

Research skills: We’ve changed the way research skills function by turning them into taggable keywords. We suggest checking this field in your new profile to ensure we’ve transcribed your skills correctly. We have big plans for research skills, so watch this space.

Topics: We want your contributions on ResearchGate to be visible - you’ll notice a badge on your profile if you’re the curator or founder of a topic.

Privacy settings: We’ve streamlined and simplified our privacy settings - it’s now much easier to understand and control who sees what.

Over the coming weeks we’ll be fixing all kinds of niggly little issues - if you have any feedback for us, whether compliment or complaint, we’d love to hear from you. 

And believe it or not, this is just the beginning! We’ll be adding more exciting updates and features to profiles on ResearchGate very soon.

Don't forget, you can also find us on Twitter and Facebook.

We want you to be able to organise and display your academic output in the most efficient way possible, which is why we’ve been hard at work upgrading our publication infrastructure over the past few months.

Today, we’re thrilled to announce several improvements and a couple of brand new features for Publications.

Document viewer: We’ve built a nifty little document viewer that lets researchers read your publication directly from its detail page. This works with PDF files at the moment, but we’ll be expanding the types of files we support very soon.

Uploading supplementary data: Whether it’s raw data, a table of results or an image, you can now upload additional resources to your publications.

More detail for manually added publications: When manually adding publications, journal articles or conference proceedings, you’ll have the ability to include abstracts, keywords and much more. Additionally, each publication you add will get its own detail page, meaning that you’ll easily be able to share your work via a unique link. Other researchers can now also interact with your manually added work via by commenting on or rating it, in the same way they can with publications that have been added from our database.

More full-texts: We’ve now made more than 10 million full-texts accessible to you, all of which you can preview on ResearchGate. We’ll also provide you with a link to the publication source. If we’ve found a full-text you requested, we’ll send you an email to let you know.

Optimised database: We’ve optimised the way our database functions, meaning that everyone’s publication lists will be more accurate and up-to-date. Hassle free.

We hope you like what we’ve done as much as we do!

As always, we welcome all feedback - whether good, bad or ugly, so please send it our way.  

And, if you spot something that shouldn’t be there, just let us know. You can reach us via email or Twitter.

From the people and topics to the conferences and publications you follow, we want to make it easy for to keep up-to-date with everything related to your field. So to ensure that you never miss out on any updates from your network, we’ve been working hard to optimise the way our live feed functions. Needless to say, we’re very excited about the results...



Here are just a couple of the improvements you can expect:

• Continuous scrolling: gone are the days of the ‘Next’ button. To load more updates from your network, just keep scrolling.
• ‘Show recent activity’: the refresh button is over - we’ll let you know when new contributions have been posted.
• Faster: we’ve updated our servers, so everything in your feed will now load much faster. 
• Display past activity: whether past or present your feed will now immediately be populated with activity. 
• Improved clustering: we’re still working on this one, but you should notice that your network activity is now clustered more efficiently.
• Better notifications: your drop-down notifications are now much more specific so you should easily be able to tell what exactly your contacts are commenting on and where. 

And the best part is that this is just the beginning: you can expect lots more updates and improvements from us in the coming weeks - so please keep sending us your feedback.

Of course we’re still working on ironing out all kinds of kinks and glitches - if you spot something that you think shouldn’t be there, please do drop us a line.

We bring you another topics update - you can now attach publications, links, images or files to your comments.

Just write your reply and add the appropriate media to support your comment.

Enjoy! And please keep your feedback coming, we take your comments and suggestions seriously. 

You can now browse by discipline to find the topics that interest you - just click on ‘Browse topics by discipline’ on your topics overview page.

If you’re looking for something more specific, you can also filter by sub-discipline.

Click on any topic to see its top, latest, new and total discussions, as well as its number of followers. 

Please keep sending us your comments and suggestions - we very much appreciate your feedback. 

We’ve made it a whole lot easier to contribute to topics.

You can now post directly to any topic you’re following from your topics overview page. So the next time you want to ask a question or share something, just choose which topic you want to contribute to from the drop-down menu.

We base our updates on your feedback, so please keep sending us your comments and suggestions.

As part of our effort to continue improving Topics, we’ve now made it possible for you to follow specific discussions.