ResearchGate

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ResearchGate

Summary

ResearchGate is a social networking service[1]. ResearchGate draws 1,828 Wikipedia views per month (social_networking_service category, ranking #15 of 83).[2]

Key Facts

  • ResearchGate was a member of DataCite[3].
  • ResearchGate is in the country of Germany[4].
  • ResearchGate's image is recorded as Researchgate Screenshot.jpg[5].
  • ResearchGate's instance of is recorded as social networking service[6].
  • ResearchGate's instance of is recorded as document repository[7].
  • ResearchGate's instance of is recorded as scientific collaboration network[8].
  • ResearchGate's founder is recorded as Ijad Madisch[9].
  • ResearchGate's founder is recorded as Sören Hofmayer[10].
  • ResearchGate's founder is recorded as Horst Fickenscher[11].
  • ResearchGate's owned by is recorded as ResearchGate GmbH[12].
  • ResearchGate's logo image is recorded as ResearchGate logo.svg[13].
  • ResearchGate's headquarters location is recorded as Berlin[14].
  • ResearchGate's Commons category is recorded as Researchgate[15].
  • +2008-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of ResearchGate[16].
  • ResearchGate's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05b2r4h[17].
  • ResearchGate's official website is recorded as https://www.researchgate.net[18].
  • ResearchGate's product or material produced is recorded as social networking service[19].
  • ResearchGate's described by source is recorded as Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure[20].
  • ResearchGate's described by source is recorded as The varying openness of digital open science tools[21].
  • ResearchGate's topic has template is recorded as Template:ResearchGate[22].
  • ResearchGate's legal form is recorded as Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung[23].
  • ResearchGate's official blog URL is recorded as https://www.researchgate.net/blog[24].
  • ResearchGate's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+264'}[25].
  • ResearchGate's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+184'}[26].
  • ResearchGate's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+161'}[27].

Body

Founding

Founders include Ijad Madisch[9], Sören Hofmayer[10], and Horst Fickenscher[11]. +2008-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of ResearchGate[16].

Operations

ResearchGate's headquarters location is recorded as Berlin[14].

Ownership

ResearchGate's owned by is recorded as ResearchGate GmbH[12]. ResearchGate's product or material produced is recorded as social networking service[19].

Why It Matters

ResearchGate draws 1,828 Wikipedia views per month (social_networking_service category, ranking #15 of 83).[2] ResearchGate has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] ResearchGate is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . researchgate.net. researchgate.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . bloomberg.com. bloomberg.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [13] . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] . wikidata.org.
  13. [3] . web.archive.org. Retrieved . web.archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . researchgate.net. researchgate.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . researchgate.net. Retrieved . researchgate.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . alexa.com. alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . alexa.com. alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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