On ResearchGate, more senior members who are recognized experts in a particular field of science volunteer as key contributors, recommending and highlighting publications for other researchers to read and discuss.

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A feature that helps researchers to connect and collaborate on COVID-19 research.
Helps search for researchers by location, discipline, location, career level, and skills.

Researchgate Expert Finder 

Experienced members of Researchgate who are experts in a particular field (e.g. epidemiology, ecology, virology, etc) who help make recommendations about what content should be displayed. They do not have the ability to influence the visibility of the content. Also, they do not have the ability to review content that violated Researchgate's policies. 
However, they do have the ability to limit the number of submissions a member can make within a topic area.

Researchgate Community Moderator

Collabvoid sorts its papers by creating categories (e.g. transmission, treatment, prevention, etc.) Each category has a brief description about it including the total number of papers. It also includes the number of papers that were added within the past seven days and within the past 30 days

Collabvoid Paper Categories

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Collabvoid FAQ Page

Users can select the peer review filter to view publications that have been reviewed or ones that have not been reviewed

COVID Scholar Peer Review Filter

Collabvoid's research map feature displays and categorizes research papers by their location across the globe, utilizing countries, regions, and cities of publication. When a user selects a specific location, the map shows all papers published from that area.

Collabvoid Research Map Feature

Users can apply specific syntax to refine searches in COVID Scholar:
* **Quotes**: Search for a specified multi-word phrase.
* **Plus sign (+)**: Specify that the result must include the search term.
* **Minus sign (-)**: Specify that the result must exclude the search term.
* **Parentheses ()**: Specify that the search matches any of the terms inside (OR logic).
* **Field name:** Search for publications in specific fields.

COVID Scholar Search Syntax

On ResearchGate, members can post questions and start discussions with other members of their research community. This facilitates the flow of knowledge and supports progress on members' research.

Researchgate Posting Questions and Discussions

In Collabvoid, keyword search finds papers whose titles, abstracts, or author fields match the query's keywords, but it does not generalize the query beyond those terms. Semantic search instead recognizes relationships between words and compares papers with the meaning of a query, allowing users to search with a sentence or question and discover research areas they may not already know.

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