ResearchGate expands partnership with Pensoft
ResearchGate and Pensoft Publishers have announced an expansion of their Journal Home partnership, extending the collaboration to 40 journals hosted on Pensoft’s ARPHA Publishing Platform.
The expanded list now covers the majority of Pensoft’s own titles and partner journals, building on an initial agreement announced in 2023. The move is intended to increase discoverability and engagement for participating journals across ResearchGate’s community.
Among the journals now benefiting from enhanced visibility are established titles affiliated with organisations including the Natural History Museum Berlin, Swiss Academy of Sciences, the International Association for Vegetation Science, and the International Biogeography Society. The expansion also includes newer Pensoft journals such as Individual-based Ecology, Natural History Collections and Museomics, and Food and Ecological Systems Modelling Journal.
The partners say participating Pensoft journals will benefit from increased usage and readership through the surfacing of full-text open access content to relevant researcher communities on ResearchGate. The partnership is also designed to strengthen engagement with new and returning authors, enhance journal branding through dedicated Journal Profiles, and improve the author experience via automatic article additions to profiles and clearer insights into readership and engagement.
“Journal Home allows us to provide our partner journals with improved visibility and stronger connections with global researcher communities,” said Lyubomir Penev, CEO and founder of Pensoft Publishers. “Many of these journals serve highly specialised fields, and Journal Home helps make sure their articles reach the right researchers, who will benefit from them most.”
“We’re pleased to expand our Journal Home partnership with Pensoft to support an increasing number of partner journals,” said Robyn Mugridge, Head of Partnership Development at ResearchGate. “By bringing these journals onto the platform, smaller and emerging titles can expand their reach, attract high-quality submissions, and connect with the most relevant researcher communities at key moments in their research journey.”