What is cogweave?

Who is cogweave for?

CogMap: A Visual Interface for Research Navigation

Structured, Searchable, Crosslinked Discussions

Alternative Publishing Model: From Draft to Recognition

Alternative Academic Impact

Collaboration Without Borders

Funding Research That Matters

Why cogweave?

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cogweave is a free, open-access platform designed to fundamentally rethink how academic research is developed, shared, and evaluated.

cogweave integrates tools to create a dynamic research ecosystem, including:

• A map-like interface connecting concepts, questions, and projects with advanced metadata visualization—helping researchers uncover knowledge gaps and hidden assumptions;
• A real-time knowledge exchange space with structured academic discussions;
• Transparent, open-access publishing supporting multiple peer review models;
• Collaborative manuscript development with version control and clear attribution;
• Public feedback at the early stages of manuscript readiness;
• Tools to pose new research questions and claim early-stage projects;
• Mechanisms for cross-institutional team or research hub formation;
• A reimagined impact system—with alternatives to the h-index and a community-powered academic “karma” model;
• Built-in crowdfunding tools to support open, independently-driven research.

Imagine: A psychology postdoc maps a novel question onto CogMap — “How do altered states affect time perception?” Within days, a neuroscientist from another continent joins the discussion, citing a forgotten dataset. A philosopher adds a new framing. The trio co-develops a manuscript in cogweave’s versioned editor, with early-stage feedback from the community shaping the direction. Two months later, their already open-reviewed paper is picked up by a journal editor who spotted it in the trending projects feed.

A visual interface of CogMap showcasing the relationships between various topics. The radius of the circles indicates the size of the body of literature, while the shade indicates the degree of community consensus in the area.

A visual interface of CogMap showcasing the relationships between various topPreliminary designs of the discussion space.ics. The radius of the circles indicates the size of the body of literature, while the shade indicates the degree of community consensus in the area.

Native paper draft in the open peer review process.

Collaborative manuscript creation in CogMap, showcasing a dynamic, user-friendly interface for research publishing with version control.

Traditional academic publishing is slow, opaque, and poorly credits early contributions.

cogweave offers a dynamic, versioned, collaborative publishing platform that supports multiple peer-review models for the full research journey—from first ideas to public recognition on your terms.

Native Workflow:

• Draft manuscripts with version control;
• Move from private to public drafts, preprints, and cogweave-community reviewed papers, and beyond;
• Choose your peer review model:
• Single or double-blind;
• Open review (private feedback, known identities);
• Transparent review (public reviews and responses);
• Collaborative review (co-development with reviewers);
• Post-publication commentary and community feedback;
• Crowd-based commentary and weighted community feedback (“blockchain” model).

Reviewer contributions are recognized through a community-powered impact system—academic “karma”—that values intellectual labor across roles.

Imported Workflow:

• Upload full texts (where licenses permit);
• Create Commentary Pages—a living object for community critique, replication, and synthesis of existing papers;
• Engage with external publications and build collective memory across fields;
• Future support includes PDFs, LaTeX, Markdown, datasets, and rich media.

Importantly, cogweave is not a gatekeeper—it’s a launchpad. cogweave doesn’t claim ownership over your ideas, papers, or projects. You retain full rights to publish in traditional journals—even after peer review on cogweave. In fact, cogweave encourages editors to reach out to authors for early-stage or community-reviewed papers. Think of it as an open showcase—a way to get dibs on the research before it disappears into paywalled silos.

Citations are not the whole story cogweave introduces alternative metrics that reward:

• Early-stage idea formulation;
• High-quality reviews and public discourse;
• Collaborative contributions and community engagement.

Additional tools include:

• A vouching system to highlight promising research;
• Timestamped claiming of early-stage ideas with soft commitment tracking and expiration options if inactive;
• Personalized dashboards to visualize your evolving contributions.

cogweave makes cross-institutional collaboration seamless—whether across labs, fields, or continents:

• Formation of research teams based on shared interests and expertise;
• Integrated messaging and attachment sharing;
• Configurable privacy settings (public, partially restricted, or invite-only teams and projects).

cogweave integrates optional, built-in tools for funding, designed to unlock early-stage support for open, independently driven research.

Researchers can:

• Flag projects, papers, or questions for funding, with transparent goals and milestones;
• Choose whether to seek crowdfunding, microgrants, donations, or longer-term patronage;
• Receive support from individuals, institutions, or aligned funders who want to accelerate their work.

Supporters can:

• Fund research directly or via institutions;
• Follow updates and development stages in real time;
• Help promising ideas gain traction— before they’re polished for traditional channels.
• All funding activity is clearly linked to the project’s public record, preserving transparency and attribution.

Today’s academic system is held back by institutional silos, slow publishing, and an overemphasis on polished end-products rather than intellectual evolution.

cogweave aims to:

• Accelerate feedback loops through early engagement;
• Credit all meaningful contributions, not just final authorship;
• Diversify publishing pathways and formats;
• Enable discovery through structural metadata and research mapping;
• Encourage transparency, rigor, and collective intellectual ownership.

cogweave is not a passive archive or a closed network—it is a living infrastructure for active knowledge creation and sharing.

cogweave is in active development, and we’re looking for:

• Focus group members & early adopters;
• Institutional and individual partners;
• Investors and donors;
• Volunteer contributors;
• Ideators, reviewers, and testers;
• Legal and organizational support.

If you are interested in participating in any capacity, please reach out:

Overview of the user’s ongoing research projects and teams.

Collaborative messaging interface.

Profile dashboard, showcasing contributions, followed projects and reviewer commitments.

The core of cogweave is the cognitive map (CogMap). It is a user-generated, dynamically expanding visual interface mapping the evolving landscape of mind-related research.

With CogMap, you can:

• Explore and create topic nodes populated with user-ranked research questions, projects, papers, and discussions;
• Search by author, institution, topic popularity, disciplinary overlap, degree of consensus, citation networks, and more;
• Identify knowledge gaps and trace the lineage of ideas within a transparent, visually intuitive structure.
• All contributions go through a light moderation process before becoming publicly available, ensuring both quality and openness.

cogweave includes a discussion space designed for structured academic dialogue.

Each thread is:

• Tied to specific CogMap topics, papers, and questions;
• Crosslinkable to other items of various types on cogweave and beyond;
• Versioned, allowing ideas to branch and merge;
• Includes tools for tagging authors, citing sources, layering commentary, ranking discussions, and marking alignment to shape consensus metrics.

Whether you’re clarifying a theory, refining a method, or proposing a new conceptual link — you can do it on cogweave, in the open, with attribution.

Preliminary designs of the home page, highlighting new papers and discussions.