Thinkable upgrades researcher verification to build a global community of PhD’s the world can collaborate with
Breakthrough ideas are are being explored and developed right now by researchers and labs you’ve never heard of. Discoveries that will fundamentally help human health, the environment and the economy across tens of thousands of universities and institutes. For those ideas and discoveries to flourish however, requires an unprecedented level of visibility, collaboration and development. Despite this there is currently no easy way to source, learn & collaborate with the world's top PhD’s.
At Thinkable, we are building a verified community of experts to mobilise science & innovation for anyone.
But for such a community to be viable there needs to be integrity & trust that every expert is legitimate. We must ensure that every researcher is who they say they are, and that they are sufficiently experienced in their field.
Therefore, we have just fortified our researcher verification to improve security and ease the registration process.
We now ask for four key things from all newly registering researchers:
- Research organisation or institute.
- Organisation email verification
- Researcher’s field/s of study
- Proof of peer-reviewed publication
Researchers are required to provide details of their current research organisation or institute and authenticate their official email address. This allows us to ensure that the researcher is who they say they are and that they are currently working within a valid research environment.
To better tailor the Thinkable experience to the researcher, and allow other users and industry partners to find relevant experts, we now also ask for field/s of study. With the launch of Thinkable’s new fact-checking platform this also allows us to ensure that researchers are answering FactChecks consistent with their expertise.
The third requirement is to establish a benchmark. Every Thinkable researcher must have at least one peer-reviewed publication to their name. The publication/s must be in a current, legitimate research journal and cannot be a conference proceeding or a book chapter as these are not peer-reviewed mediums.
Once we have this information every registration is verified manually by our team. In the not-too-distant future we’ll undoubtedly have AI that will do this for us, but for now manual verification is the most secure method and gives our interns plenty to do.
Our community of verified researchers are currently engaging with three peer-prizes and we’re looking forward to mobilising our experts to answer your science questions when we openly launch FactChecks, very soon.
Check out these other articles to learn more about our researcher community, and if you’re a researcher yourself and want to join Thinkable, you can register here.
Introducing Thinkable Peer Prizes to gauge the collective voice of a scientific field(s)
