ResearchHub is an open-science publishing and funding platform that rewards researchers with ResearchCoin (RSC) for open publication, peer review, and discussion of scientific work. ResearchHub's Twitter Score is 95 out of 1000 (a Good rating) as of July 2026, ranking #8,824 (top 5%) among 531,432 tracked accounts.
ResearchHub was co-founded by Brian Armstrong and Patrick Joyce as a modern preprint server and research funding layer built around the RSC token, an ERC-20 asset deployed on Ethereum and Base. RSC is used for rewards, tipping, bounties, and governance voting, with token holders participating in proposal votes through the ResearchHub Foundation community, which operates as a DAO. The platform is operated by Researchhub Technologies, Inc. and is affiliated with Endaoment.
ResearchHub has distributed more than $1.5 million in research funding to date, and the platform reports a community of more than 100,000 researchers and readers, with an average peer-review turnaround of under 10 days. ResearchHub has published 2,299 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 139 accounts a total of 447 times, reflecting sustained interest from the open-science and crypto communities.
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The accounts that follow ResearchHub include 379 founders, 94 angel investors, 230 influencers and 13 VCs, among them Brian Armstrong, Ansem, jesse.base.eth, Marc Andreessen, 6529 and Andrew Kang.