[GOAL] Introducing the Academic Social Network SciProfiles

[Franck Vazquez]

Dear Colleagues,

MDPI is pleased to announce the release of SciProfiles, its social 
network platform for researchers and scholars.

The purpose of SciProfiles is aligned with MDPI’s broad mission to 
accelerate discovery and innovation by facilitating immediate access to 
research results and to serve scholars and communities by providing 
opportunities for academic networking.

SciProfiles also ambitions to serve as a sustainable, transparent and 
community-driven research evaluation system aligned with the DORA 
principles (https://sfdora.org/ ). Through their scientific profiles, 
academics can highlight their contribution to research communities, and 
measure their impact on their field, beyond publication numbers and 
impact factors. SciProfiles is currently a beta version and will enrich 
to give researchers the possibility to highlight all of their 
contributions to science and their scientific communities as authors, 
reviewers, editors, conference organizers, conference panelists, 
conference keynote speakers, or even as lecturers or student mentors at 
their University.
The components of popular community social networks, including 
follower/following, classical metrics, endorsements/ recommendations 
(https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1690 ), comments 
(https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397 )
are or will be very soon highlighted in SciProfiles as open science 
contributions.

To help increase the impact and visibility of articles and their authors 
to an appropriate audience, the platform offers a NewsFeed that includes 
recommendations of relevant content based on interests, publication 
history, saved searches or colleagues’ recommendations.

SciProfiles’ avatars are now being integrated on several MDPI platforms, 
meaning that anyone will directly access researchers’ profiles from any 
of the MDPI platforms:

MDPI’s journal publishing website: www.mdpi.com
MDPI’s conference hosting and management website: www.sciforum.net
MDPI’s preprints website : www.preprints.org
MDPI’s knowledge sharing website : www.encyclopedia.pub
MDPI’s books store: www.mdpi.com/books
MDPI’s literature database : www.scilit.net


SciProfiles aims to serve scientific communities at large. It can be 
embedded into third-party websites and also welcomes integration of data 
from third-parties.

Best wishes,

Dr. Shu-Kun Lin
https://sciprofiles.com/profile/2

Dr. Franck Vazquez
https://sciprofiles.com/in/FranckVazquez

Dr. Martyn Rittman
https://sciprofiles.com/in/martynrittman

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