ResearchGate, a collaborative social network for scientists, is potentially changing and transforming the way science is done. For years, scientists avoided the social web because of cultural resistance, the lack of a clear benefit to publishing, winning tenure, and making discoveries…fueled that apathy. With the rapid success in social networking with companies such as Facebook, ResearchGate realized the potential opportunity to create a collaborative cloud in which scientists could share ideas and publish works, thus increasing the speed of scientific discovery.