One of the best-known windows in the university town of Gottingen in Lower Saxony, this is part of the 1549 half-timbered Schröder House. Image – Getty: W Jarek
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
Fifteen English-Language Journals
As Publishing Perspectives readers know, the Berlin-based ResearchGate‘s main product—perhaps its only product—is called Journal Home, which the company likes to describe as a “professional network for researchers.”
Among the most recent new partnerships for Journal Home is a brother German company, the Gottingen-based Hogrefe Publishing, which is widely known in Europe for its 15 English-language journals in psychology, psychotherapy, and psychiatry.
The new agreement handles both fully open-access publications and hybrid journals.
Many of Hogrefe’s journals are published in collaboration with national and international associations. The company has an agreement formalized in 2021 with 116 scientific and research institutions on a project to flip 28 active titles to open access, a transformative agreement that meant scientists and authors could “publish and read” Hogrefe’s articles.
Among advantages to being part of the Journal Home program, ResearchGate lists these points about communicating a journal’s value to what it says is more than 25 million researcher-members:
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Increased visibility of article content with quick syndication of the version-of-record to the ResearchGate platform;
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Amplified brand awareness, using dedicated journal profile pages displaying key information, paired with prominent branding on all associated article pages and other spots displayed to members;
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Deeper researcher engagement, as in helping a journal publisher “deepen relationships with its community, while building loyalty among writers;
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Automatic sharing of articles to author profiles and network feeds, reported to help with discoverability; and
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Unique platform insights used to develop an understanding of who makes up a given journal’s readership.
ResearchGate was founded in 2008.
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