Piirus is an academic networking site designed to help researchers seek potential research collaborators. It is a sister service to jobs.ac.uk. It was founded by Fiona Colligan and was officially launched on August 2011 as "Research Match", a service designed for researchers within the University of Warwick.
It offers services which are similar to Academia.edu and ResearchGate. Since 2011, researchers from over 700 institutions across the globe have actively connected with each other and membership is estimated to grow to more than 10,000 researchers by the end of 2015. While Academia, LinkedIn and researchers’ own departmental pages showcase research and publications, Piirus supports researchers right at the earliest stages of the research process, when they are forming new ideas and seeking colleagues to share, expand and describe the research challenge with them. Due to its functionality, Piirus is often described as a 'dating site' for researchers.
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