interesting

New thought! Interesting!! I support your idea.

Thanks and regards

Sharing your idea...good question

Dear Bjørn Petter Jelle

Thank you for endorsing the idea from the previous question,

all scientific researchers aspire to fair scientific publishing away from financial investment by scientific publishing, and many of them are surprised by the requirements They are unaware of it during the scientific work

Best regards

Houda

I am willing and deeply interested in leading such an effort. Can I get support, like supplied papers, reviews of same, and a group of competent supporters with whom to form an editorial board?

The idea is interesting and I support it. I have another proposal, which Research Gate can start easily. Research Gate can act as alternative of Thomson Reuters by indexing, allotting Impact Factor like score and calculate citation like Google Scholar.

What is the comments of our RG member friends on that proposal?

I do remember about some initiatives of RG members to establish RG Journal(s) under the umbrella of Rresearchgate. There was huge corespondence between, but there was no will imposed by Researchgate officials.

Let me tell you dear @Bjorn that I do support your initiative.

This is a good idea. I have sent a message to RG long ago explain that if we want to advance Science we need to end with the system of editorial, financial, university, funding, dependency in Sciences. Half of the editors of known journals are "friends" or friends of big labs and private Co. Many many examples and very good names in RG with high scores are playing catalytic role in driving science as they "wish". Many "big" papers have no one real scientific meaning.....

A novel idea, new data, a conception, a discovery should be published and be protected. A scientist in Africa or in London should have the same opportunity to publish his ideas or discoveries. I do not know really RG "construction & conception" but I think RG seems to be a good way to promote scientific integrity and progress in Sciences.

Let’s move on and next maybe we can built the Sciences with no borders (SNB), with no dependency and transparency so to move on humanity.

Dear Bjorn,

It is a great idea and lets hope that RG takes it on board, in the near future. There are many groups of scientists they are either not represented or under represented, such as retired university professors, scientists from developing countries or scientists from disadvantaged groups. I am sure RG will find plenty of volunteers, such as myself, to help in the process.

Best wishes,

Refik

This is a very good idea.

An interesting idea that will find many supporters.

Open access journal may be started, but how long it lasts? controversies are expected

The idea is good, but as a researchgate user, I prefer its current functions, and hope that they will be enhanced in the future. The journal(s) may be then launched on a separate platform with minor relations with this platform.

If researchgate does not do this then I, in time, plan on doing this. I've been thinking about it for a while. In essence, it would be a very similar in model to stackexchange/researchgate hybrid. The journal would self validate or self publish itself as a community. Which may deviate from some of the opinions of others here.

Or someone else could do this, not me. Regardless, It needs to be done for the benefit of well, humanity as cheesy as that sounds.

I may contact you one day Bjorn, William, or anyone else who seems interested. I have a small, small working experiment in place actually which allows for revenue such that it can also be sustained. RG is open to contacting me too.

Dear Nathan,

I appreciate your optimistic approach. Best wishes

I too support the idea.

Several disciplines are there.. It is a good approach no doubt

Idea is good. But, in terms of modality for publishing needs lots careful intervention and thinking process to streamline it. Otherwise it will remain as a very glossy idea without feasibility.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Researchgate_vs_Publishers_How_far_do_you_consider_author_rights_could_stop_researchers_publishing_value_items_in_RG?

I foresee the rapid dampening of this important discussion, since similar initiatives were put forward earlier on other issues, and also quickly faded without any response from Researchgate. If I understand the situation correctly, we need this initiative many times more as a scientific community than Researchgate. Why? Because, this step will disrupt the existing balance of leading scientific journals that rule the world. We must understand that Researchgate is not in itself as an independent organization, like everything in this cruel world. Therefore, as the Bible says: "We are given the opportunity to work hard, but we will never see the fruits of our labors." As for my proposals, I spoke about them in detail on the link

https://www.researchgate.net/post/On_what_conditions_can_one_appeal_against_an_unjust_rejection_of_his_her_article

Good, related thread!

Is ResearchGate the future of scientific publishing for everyone?

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_ResearchGate_the_future_of_scientific_publishing_for_everyone

Dear doctor this good idea

This is a good question

I am intereste

I support this proposal, especially since the RG platform has the potential to accomplish it.

ResearchGate has the potential to provide us with a new model (ecosystem) of peer-review scholarly publishing as public service. What is also needed is a new format, beyond static pdf, with multimediality and hypertext.

Regards,

CT

The basic idea is very good. Some details have to be worked out, though. Scientific journals usually have an editor and an editorial board. Also, the quality of the articles is ensured by some refereeing process. How structures like that should be organized for a RG journal is most important for the success of the idea. Different models of self-organization seem possible. I think that opening a journal project in RG could be a good way to get started. There, the topics for the journal could be decided, and how to have an editorial board, and to find referees. Also, things like ISSN and doi are important. Otherwise, some of the reasons for writing a scientific article like to build a scientific reputation, or getting a research position, might seems to be satisfied better by one of the established journal.

Very good idea, i glad to see this journal support by RG platform

Good idea, but it's tough - what will be the modalities? A well brainstorming session is required for generating ideas and developing all the details.

There seem to be 5 - 6 major scientific "mainstreams' and then a profusion of modalities and sub-modalities within these.

So - let's start off with the 5-6 Mainstreams:

A ResearchGate Journal of Formal Sciences: Mathematics; Logic (?); Decision / Game Theory; Information Theory; Decision Theory; Probability & Statistics; etc.

A ResearchGate Journal of Natural (Life) Sciences: Botany; Zoology; Biology; Physiology; etc.

A ResearchGate Journal of Natural (Physical) Sciences: Chemistry; Physics; Astronomy; Earth Sciences; etc.

A ResearchGate Journal of Social Sciences: Sociology; Psychology; Anthropology; Philosophy (?); History; Linguistics & Semiotics; etc. A ResearchGate Journal of Applied Sciences: Engineering; Agriculture; Medicine; Forensics; Nuclear Sciences; etc.

A ResearchGate Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences: Environmental science; Biomedical science; etc.

I am sure that this will probably start a fairly 'contentious' discussion before we can get any further.

Each Journal would also need an "Editor' and an "Editorial Team". Then we get to a number of "Questions" about:

Editorial Qualifications; Publishing Standards; Formats / Types of Distribution; Does anyone get paid or have to pay; etc.; and by Whom and How are any decisions going to made??

Dr. Courtenay Young, Good proposal on mainstream journals. So, it's a good start. .

interesting

Dear Bjørn Petter Jelle

This is a good idea.

Ewa Ziemba

its good idea