The Royal Society and ResearchGate have joined hands to expand their partnership. They have decided to jointly cover all the journals of Royal Society, increasing the visibility and readership of 45000 articles at a global level.
Currently, the Journal Home product of Researchgate platform has increased the visibility of 10 journals of Royal Society publisher. These 10 journals are of open access and subscription model of publishing. In the year 2023, ResearchGate was provided content of journals published by Royal Society.
In the year 2024, both the parties have further strengthened their partnership as it was a successful collaboration. The readership and the reach of the content provided by the Royal Society has increased manifold due to ResearchGate platform.
It was found that in the year 2023, two open access journals of the Royal Society saw a 64% increase in their usage on the ResearchGate platform. The trend of increased usage continues for these two journals as their articles have been viewed more than 1.75 million times on ResearchGate in the past 12 months.
Using the platform of Researchgate, the Royal Society’s journals could get more engagement from researches who are in their early stage of careers. The publishers of Royal Society were targeting to increase their reach in this critical demographic group.
In the year 2024, ResearchGate has introduced a new product named Journal Home. There are dedicated profiles of all the journal titles of the Royal Society publisher. The important information and the content that is relevant is sourced from each journal and provided through the Journal Home platform of ResearchGate.
The branding of prominent journals is being done on all the associated pages dedicated to articles. Journal Home provides insights into unique network, paving the path to increase The Royal Society’s engagement with the journal community.
Each of the journals’ profiles contain the names of editors and authors. Thus, members of ResearchGate platform can understand how a journal is connected to a network of academic professionals.
Authors of the Royal Society publisher have benefitted additionally from the partnership of the publisher with ResearchGate. Their research work gets added automatically to their profiles on ResearchGate platform.
Thus, the visibility of the articles is boosted and the platform provides insights into who is currently reading the article and citing their research paper. Thus, the connectivity of the authors with the readers has increased significantly.
More 75,000 authors have benefitted as they have added their articles to their profiles on ResearchGate. The discovery and accessibility of these articles has increased sharply due to features of “Journals Home.”