ResearchGate and Cambridge University Press have expanded their Journal Home partnership after the first year of the program, increasing coverage to 29 journals and introducing ResearchGate’s Community Engagement Upgrade as part of the agreement. The expanded arrangement covers journals across medicine, psychiatry, engineering, and mathematics, and also brings hybrid journals into the partnership for the first time.
According to the companies, the broader agreement is intended to support Cambridge University Press’s efforts to strengthen readership, attract authors, and improve engagement between journal teams and relevant research communities. Through Journal Home, participating journals will gain wider visibility across ResearchGate’s network of more than 25 million researchers, along with tools intended to support article sharing, reader interaction, and author insight into the reach of published work. A related ResearchGate partnership announcement from 2024 shows the publisher had already begun using Journal Home for selected Cambridge titles before the new expansion.
Under the new arrangement, Cambridge University Press journals will receive expanded journal profiles and upgraded branding across the platform. The addition of the Community Engagement Upgrade is also expected to give journal teams access to audience insights showing who is reading, citing, recommending, and following journal content. The release stated the upgrade will also allow editorial teams to feature selected articles to relevant audiences and use tools such as Editor Picks and Journal Stats to support community-building and journal development.
The announcement presents the expanded partnership as part of a broader push to improve how journals connect with active research communities rather than focusing only on content hosting. ResearchGate stated the upgraded offering is designed to help publishers and editors build more strategic and sustained engagement around journals, while Cambridge University Press noted the arrangement supports efforts to extend the reach of trusted research and strengthen long-term academic impact.
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