another 'facebook' for researchers for partnerships and
collaboration is the newly set up ResearchGate. It is an initiative from the
university of Hannover the harvard medical school and the university of leeds.

Furthermore, it is supported by Max Planck PhdNet,
European Students conference, GAIN and the European science foundation.

You can review at https://www.researchgate.net/

brought to my knowledge by Hicham Abghay.