How ResearchHub Makes Open Science Rewarding by Reinventing Academic Incentives

Welcome to another episode of the DeSci Podcast. Today, we were joined by Jeffrey Koury, Director & Business Development Lead at ResearchHub, and Jonathan Heppner, Marketing & Social Media Lead.

ResearchHub is a platform designed to accelerate the pace of scientific research by providing a modern mobile and web application where people can collaborate on scientific research more efficiently. It aims to make scientific research accessible, collaborative, and prioritized for everyone.

In this episode, we delved into the shortcomings of the current scientific research model and the need to make science open to everyone.

Our dialogue centered on advocating for a shift from the traditional model towards a more inclusive and transparent system. Central to this shift is the necessity of building better incentive structures, which would drive collaboration among scientists and facilitate accelerated progress in scientific research.

Feel free to navigate through any of the topics discussed in the Podcast using the timestamps below.

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⭐ Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:30 What is Research Hub?

03:05 Onboarding process.

05:40 What drove your interest in building Research Hub?

12:16 Past efforts in promoting open science

18:32 The role of Research Hub in scientific literature

26:19 How Research Hub differs from traditional journals

35:14 Public versus Anonymous Peer Review

39:20 Most contentious topics within your field

48:50 Ensuring high quality science

52:35 Why books are important

59:13 How to get involved

59:47 How Research Hub has evolved over the years

1:05:13 Outro

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Lea Degen: https://twitter.com/lealeata

Jeffrey Koury: https://twitter.com/jeffyfish9

Jonathan Heppner: https://twitter.com/EnactJohnny

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