Find a research collaborator
A verified register of clinicians. Say what you need or what you can give, and we introduce you by email. Free.
What people ask for
A second reviewer for a systematic review
Screening is meant to be done independently by two people. This is where reviews stall.
Sites for a multicenter study
Recruitment outside your own institution and your own country.
A co-author for a case report
An unusual case, and someone who has written one up before.
Distribution for a survey
Reaching clinicians in other systems, which is what turns a local snapshot into a paper.
Statistics or data analysis
The step that leaves good questions sitting as collected data.
A read on a protocol or grant
An hour from outside the department, before you resubmit.
How it works
Register
Two minutes.
We verify
Your registration number, by hand, before anything is shared.
We introduce
One email naming the study and the work expected. You say yes or no.
You take it from there
Authorship, ethics and data are yours to agree.
Authorship
- ICMJE criteria. All four, not one.
- No money for a place on an author list. Ever.
- Introductions name the contribution expected, in writing, from the first email.
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Common questions
Common questions
Who can join the register?
Clinicians and health researchers with a verifiable registration or license: doctors, dentists, pharmacists, nurses and midwives, physiotherapists, dietitians, psychologists and public health researchers. Every registration number is checked by hand before an introduction is made. Being on the register is not a credential and we do not publish it.
Do I need an academic post?
No. A large share of good clinical questions come from people seeing patients in district hospitals and general practices, who have the cases and the questions but no research office, no statistician down the corridor and no network of collaborators. That gap is the reason this exists.
How does authorship work?
By ICMJE criteria, which are the standard most medical journals use: substantial contribution to the design or to acquiring, analyzing or interpreting the data; drafting or critically revising the work; approving the final version; and agreeing to be accountable for it. All four, not one. We ask people to agree to this before they join, and we say plainly what the contribution is when we make an introduction.
Is this a way to buy authorship?
No, and it is built so that it cannot become one. No money is paid or accepted for a place on an author list. Introductions state the specific contribution expected. Registrations are verified against the issuing body. Paper mills are a serious and growing problem in medical publishing, and a platform that matched strangers to author lists without these rules would be one, whatever it called itself.
What does it cost?
Nothing. The register exists because the same clinicians who want research collaborators are the ones we want writing and reviewing for the site, so it pays for itself in a way that does not require charging anybody.
What happens after I register?
Your registration is verified by hand before anything is shared. We are building the register field by field, so it can take a while. When there is a plausible match you get an email describing the study, the contribution expected and who is asking, and you decide. Your details are not shared until you say yes, and nothing about you is published at any point.
Can I send patient data through this?
No, at no stage, and this is not a formality. The register holds information about people, never about patients. Anything involving patient data belongs inside a proper data sharing agreement between institutions, with ethics approval, not in an email through an introduction service.
Do you get involved in the research itself?
No. We verify identity and make the introduction. What you agree between you, including authorship order, ethics approval, data handling and funding, is yours to settle, as it would be with any collaborator you met at a conference.