Community Sites for Scientists and Physicians: The List May 24, 2008
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in Collaboration, Community Site, Health, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, e-Science, science.trackback
I’ve already come up with lists of the best medical places in Second Life; the best medical wikis and the best services with medical videos/animations. So it’s time to dedicate another one to community sites created for scientists and physicians. This idea came to my mind when I read the post of Bora Zivkovic.
(The list is being constantly updated)
- ResearchGATE: Registered users of the free-of-charge platform can present their research work in a personal profile, exchange messages and build groups for peer-to-peer discussions (more).
- Nature Network: Nature Network is the online meeting place for you and fellow scientists to gather, talk and find out about the latest scientific news and events. Science is an international endeavor and deserves a global stage for discussion.
- SciLink: an online community with the goal of helping you to discover scientists, authors, and relationships (more).
- SocialMD: SocialMD is a great new way to network with other physicians. Whether you are a medical student, resident, fellow or physician you will find that SocialMD is a great way to meet and network with other medical professionals (more)
- DoctorsHangout.com: DoctorsHangout.com social network can help you maintain existing personal and professional relationships and establish new ones by reaching out to Doctors you’ve never met before (more).
- Jeff’s Bench: Students and post-docs need to be able to have more of these interactions. We hope this site will be used to foster those interactions.
- BiomedExperts: the first literature-based scientific social network – brings the right researchers together and allows them to collaborate online. Collexis provides the BiomedExperts social network free of charge for researchers worldwide in an effort to increase collaborative biomedical research for the common good.
- SciBook in Facebook: Social Networking for Life Scientists
- Ozmosis: a new community, currently in private beta, created by physicians for physicians. Members have to be verified during the registration process (more).
- Sermo: We are a practicing community of 65,000 physicians who exchange clinical insights, observations, and review cases in real time — all the time.
- Tiromed: Ask a mentor or become a mentor. Upload your CV and find collaborators from around the world, or find a job via this community.
- LabSpaces: a brand new social network that was developed to spread scientific news, maintain and create friendships, and harbor collaboration in the sciences.
- Research Crossroads: Centralizing scientific and medical funding data so that researchers gain recognition for their work and funders make better investments.
- Mendeley: If you deal with academic knowledge, then Mendeley will make your life easier. It’s a combination of desktop software and social network which helps you manage, share and discover both content and contacts in research. It’s easy to use, and it’s free.
- Within3: Within3 is the private professional networking site exclusively for health and life science practitioners to find, connect and collaborate with the right colleague, right now.
- MyNetResearch: Our purpose is to assist you in maximizing your research productivity through global collaborations. We all have outstanding colleagues, yet have felt the disappointment of these colleagues not sharing our research interests and passions.
- Scientist Solutions: Scientist Solutions is a life sciences discussion board run by scientists for scientists with the mission to connect every scientist in the world. This site is moderated by a team of scientific staff. It is our hope that Scientist Solutions will encourage the exchange of information between investigative researchers and thereby contribute to the advancement of Science.
- ScienceStage.com is a virtual conference room, lecture hall, laboratory, library, and meeting venue all in one. It offers new methods of scientific presentation, scientific discourse and academic knowledge transfer by using video streaming, audio streaming and text features.
- Academia.edu: It displays academics around the world in a tree format, according to what university/department they are affiliated with.
- Doc2doc: doc2doc has a range of tools to help you network with other doctors on a professional and social level.
Sciweavers.org is a free academic social network that enables researchers (scholars, scientists, graduate students, …etc) to Share, Discover, Learn, and Discuss academic contributions and research materials such as publications, source code, presentations, tutorials, lecture notes, books, datasets, research news, and much more!.
LabRoots is a free, social networking site that enables scientists, engineers, and other technical professionals to connect, collaborate with, and learn from each other. LabRoots fosters world-wide scientific communication and incorporates the newest social networking technologies.
BioCrowd was created to help bioscience professionals build relationships, exchange ideas, find jobs and identify exciting new career opportunities. Whether you are a bioscientist, investment banker, entrepreneur or a student, be part of the BioCrowd.
Centralize and be found. One can not collaborate with the unknown. Join our free community. Describe yourself, your product, your blog, your service and/or your mission.
- LaboraTree: a social networking tool for scientists and a research management tool. Laboratree allows you to grow your network by joining up with various colleagues, groups, and projects. Laboratree allows you to e-mail or send messages to all parts of your network. Laboratree allows you to manage a personal or group blog. Laboratree’s latest feature allows you to share papers, documents, and other files with other people on Laboratree.
- BioSpace is a social network in biology. It provides the necessary functionality to allow you to share information between people (within group, friends)
- Researcher ID is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community. With a unique identifier assigned to each author in ResearcherID, you can eliminate author misidentification and view an author’s citation metrics instantly. Search the registry to find collaborators, review publication lists and explore how research is used around the world.
- PHYZOOM: you can find the physicians in your community who are staying on top of the latest health trends, products and services. In addition, your search options are much more dynamic than your average physician directory available from your local hospitals and health systems.
- The Science Advisory Board: Voice your opinions on companies, products, protocols and even humor in a lively, real-time, interactive Online Community of over 42,000 life science & medical professionals. Redeem generous rewards for participation in studies, contributing website content and referring colleagues.
- MySDscience: Scientific collaborations, professional development, and science education while raising awareness for the San Diego Science Festival.
- Web of Medicine: it was created for busy clinicians who want to build and join professional networks of medical colleagues. Users have expressed a clear requirement to connect with colleagues in their own practices and hospitals but also nationally and internationally.
- New Media Medicine is an online Social Network of over 42,000 doctors, medical students and pre-med students. It’s like Facebook for medics.
- Asklepios: the social network for physicians created by the Canadian Medical Association. Here you can make new contacts, get advice from colleagues, and collaborate with people all over the country. And it’s exclusively for Canadian physicians, residents and medical students, so you’ll know exactly who you’re connecting with there.
- Doctrs.com: It’s an exclusive social net for physicians that was founded by Michael Kamleitner and Lukas Zinnagl in 2008, according to the FAQ page.
- SleepGuide: If you or a loved one have sleep apnea, you probably (i) don’t know it, or (ii) have had trouble with the treatment. This forum can help.
- Voices of Physicians: Voices of Physicians is a new campaign from Doctors for America that puts physicians’ concerns and priorities for health reform on a national map.
- Sci-Mate: The Sci-Mate (Scientific Material Transfer Exchange) is an open collaboration to address well known problems in academic publishing and commercial development using proven Web 2.0 software solutions.
- Scientist Solutions: Scientist Solutions is a life sciences board run by scientists for scientists. As such, Scientist Solutions is moderated by a team of full time scientific staff in order to maintain the integrity of our board for the sole purpose of scientific discussion and networking.
- iCons in Medicine: iCons in Medicine is a global telehealth and humanitarian medicine volunteer alliance. This network of medical professionals is committed to making the world a healthier place.
- Osler’s Node: Osler’s Node is a classified portal and ethical marketplace for the UK medical community.
Let me know if you know more.
If I could plug Friendfeed, our little community there is super active, and now has a room
http://friendfeed.com/rooms/the-life-scientists
Very nicely put together. Maybe at some point a sidebar feature as they grow too. This is just the tip of the iceberg of pharma/biotech and technology really starting to mesh.
Very nice.
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Don’t forget labspaces.net. It’s been live longer than any of the sites you have listed here.
May I add Mendeley.com? We’d like to think of our vision as a “Last.fm for research” – not only because of the conceptual, but also because of personnel similarities.
Mendeley offers a free software for managing and sharing your academic papers, with a view towards showing you statistics about up-and-coming topics in your academic discipline, reading recommendations, and people with similar research interests.
There’s a short demo video on our homepage, or on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ct4O0Ect18
Victor, thank you for the link. I must write about that service.
Bertalan, thanks for your kind words and your interest. If there’s anything I can do for you, just drop me a line (I’m traveling at the moment (back at my alma mater for teaching a seminar
, but I’ll reply as soon as I get your message!
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Bertalan,
Please consider adding The Science Advisory Board (http://www.scienceboard.net) to your list of online communities. Launched in 1997, The Science Advisory Board now has a registered membership of more than 41,000 life scientists from over 60 countries.
We’re proud to have been advancing “Web 2.0″ for more than a decade!
41,000 members in 12 years….not really successful!
Add scipeople.com to your list
Jean Wrote:
“41,000 members in 12 years….not really successful!”
By what measure do you define success? The business model of The Science Advisory Board is not to simply add warm bodies in the hope of attracting advertisers or selling subscriptions — we don’t accept advertising, don’t sell subscriptions and never rent out access to our membership list (how many journals or professional societies can make that claim?) We’ve built an expert-on-demand network that has profitably delivered insights to over 300 companies engaged in the development of new life science technologies. One recent entry into the field claims to have recruited 80,000 members in a year but they spent $20+ million doing it and according to their recent SEC filing are unsure of their ability to continue business operations. Who’s the successful company?
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Great list! Thanks for pulling it together. I added a link to the list Pharma and Healthcare Social Media Wiki I’ve created.
http://bit.ly/B3PR7
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I just stumbled across this list and very much appreciate it! It’s hard to find other docs to talk to online.
Thanks for putting this up Bertalan. Do get in touch if anyone wants to comment on Osler’s Node or has any comments or suggestions.
Otherwise keep up the good work.
PS. There is another site called http://www.nhsUnlocked.org which acts as an interface between doctor and patients.
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Check out MedGoline http://www.medgoline.com. It is pre-launch and will bring a completely different angle to the social medical information democratization.
I will write about it on Scienceroll. Thanks for the link!