Loop maintains a very simple mission: increase the visibility of authors and increase the readership of their work. We believe this can be achieved through a single academic profile that is linked to an author’s original published work, as seen on Frontiers and Nature articles. This gives the readers of the articles the opportunity to … Continue reading
Actúaloop awards the most innovative ideas to social research networks
by Beatriz del Rincón Alonso, Over 30 ideas submitted and 69 participants, including students, PhD students, researchers and professors, is the result of the first edition of actúaloop. Actúaloop competition aims to stimulate innovation in social research networks and to promote ideas that improve the functionality of Loop research network while generating new and innovative applications for academic and … Continue reading
Communicate with your peers with Loop private messaging
You’ve been asking for it and now it’s available. You can now communicate with your fellow researchers on Loop using private messaging. The Loop team is dedicated to developing products and services that facilitate effective communication between you and your peers. Our new private messaging service provides a platform for new collaboration opportunities, beyond the boundaries of … Continue reading
actúaLoop challenges tech entrepreneurs to develop new APIs for Loop
Loop, the research network powered by Frontiers, has collaborated with the Center of Support for Technological Innovation (CAIT) of the Technical University of Madrid to launch actúaLoop – a competition for entrepreneurs and technical teams. The competition’s goal is to develop ideas Continue reading
Loop integrates ORCID to maximize impact for researchers
Loop has collaborated with ORCID to synchronize researcher profiles to make it even easier for researchers to import their publications into their Loop profile. Continue reading
Loop launches enhanced Author Impact Metrics
Loop, the Frontiers research network, has revamped and launched new “Author Impact Metrics”, which provide researchers with aggregated impact metrics across all of their publications, at a unified author level. Continue reading
UPM leads way as first university to integrate Loop
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) researchers in the UPM observatory (Observatorio de I+D+I UPM) are now able to link their universal Loop profile to the profile on their institutional website. Continue reading
Social and semantic networks bring a welcome change in science
By Constanze Böttcher, Science Journalist At the heart of every modern, knowledge-based economy, science is a powerful driver for change and growth. As a result, the global scientific community is growing too, pumping out research at an ever increasing rate. Some say that global scientific output doubles every nine years. Ironically, scientists have struggled to keep up … Continue reading
Loop reaches 200,000 users
Loop, our new research network for scientists, reached 200,000 users this week! We officially launched Loop in January 2015 as a research network for scientists and are thrilled at how fast it’s growing. In fact, many of the top scientists and researchers in the world have profiles on Loop, and thousands of institutes are represented … Continue reading
Frontiers launches Loop
We are very excited to announce that Loop was launched today! It’s been a challenging and exciting journey, and the Frontiers team and myself are all truly proud to introduce Loop, the first research network that is open to be integrated into any publisher’s or academic organization’s website. Continue reading
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