I believe that the establishment of two magazines, one of which is concerned with scientific research and the other is concerned with educational, human, social and cultural research, will be possible and more applicable than establish a single magazine that will be specialized in all disciplines.
I have always supported this idea that research gate can add a journal publishing component so that members or researcher can also submit their manuscript for peer review. Researchers who review manuscripts should also be awarded recognition and points to up their RG score.
As a result of the repetition of this demand by answering several questions related to scientific publishing and its impediments and improving its level, it is expected that a site for a journal will be published scientifically by the site and its participants,
The traffic will be unimaginable, and the competition exceptional. But not without the unexpected flood of articles of "lesser" quality, which their rejection would spur up heavy criticism that may derail the original ideals of RG.
Dear Dr. Parisa Ziarati: It is a distinct proposition and I think most of colleagues agree on this. Either the response of the RG platform is uncertain, because we have already been asked about different things and RG did not answer them.
In practice RG works as a network of researchers and at the same time as a Journal of Multidisciplinary Research; as it allows, publications of research not previously published in other journals, either formally or as a pre-press.
This proposal is very good due to the number of researchers linked to this portal. It is only necessary to be accepts with by the RG and seek to create the criteria and requirements for this work. It is important that it is open access and that costs can be discussed for this implementation, who will sponsor it? If it is for the researchers through processing fees, which are small amounts that serve only for the maintenance of this magazine, without aiming at profits. They can also be paid by private companies that want to insert advertisements on this portal.
Can we manage and establish multidisciplinary journal in research gate?
I think we can - because:
People - we have many RG members that hold various positions in various journals e.g. editors, reviewers, coordinators, administrators etc. Perhaps for a start we can form a core team / committee then source the right people for the right jobs including deciding single multidisciplinary journal or different content types of journals etc.
Process - some RG members holding certain journal positions can share their experience / opinion on the process to transform submitted manuscripts into published articles which include the authoring & reviewing guidelines, plagiarism check mechanism etc.
Tools / Technologies - we can leverage on RG existing engine to expand further by automating the above journaling process.
However, all these attempts failed one after another. I do not think that the Research Gate would be interested in solving this issue, because this network has completely different goals and tasks. However, pay attention to the New Education Research Network https://www.ssrn.com/en/index.cfm/edurn/ .
Maybe this network will solve all your problems effectively. In any case, my first impression is very favorable.
We highly appreciate each other on RG.It will be the global work with our humanistic publications and results, our thoughts, values, and our unique personal traits- it will be a greatest answer to the money- oriented and not very intelligent persons around the world. We are the world, not them!
Definitely it is possible but some people have to ensure the extra works which can be termed as the organizers and they will convene or organize the respective journal of each type. Before that, there should be a general convener with the joint conveners of sense of multidisciplinary to organize the whole things.