A social media network just for scientific researchers has raised $52 million

A social media network just for scientific researchers has raised $52 million. On ResearchGate, however, the search for such truths is at the heart of everything the social network does. With the Tuesday announcement of a $52.6 million raise, the site appears to be experiencing some pretty healthy growth, New York Times reports. Over 1.3 million people now use ResearchGate, which features the work of more than 12 million researchers, including 56 Nobel laureates. Aside from sharing and discussing academic studies, the people who use ResearchGate can gain the same sorts of things social media networks usually give their users, like social connections with like-minded individuals and public exposure of thoughts and ideas, or in this case, research. When another scientist contacted Mahbub and asked to use his computer code for another project, Mahbub was happy to help. “I had no problem about sharing my code with him,” he told the Times. Meanwhile, it looks like that pool of viewable research just keeps expanding. That huge growth appears to come along with larger a trend in the scientific community of embracing the internet in efforts to share and discuss research, with the proliferation of open-access website like the Public Library of Science, or PLoS. "I want to make science more open.