ResearchConnectXUser Guides

Everything you need to discover collaborators, run research projects and surveys, and make the most of AI-powered matching.

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What are Smart Matches?

Getting Started

Create your account, complete the onboarding wizard, and take a tour of your dashboard.

Create your account

Improving Your Profile

A complete profile powers better matches. Link ORCID, Google Scholar, PubMed and more.

Improve your profile

AI Matches

Discover research projects, conferences and surveys tailored to your expertise.

Explore Smart Matches

Projects

Create projects, manage tasks on a kanban board, and collaborate with your team.

Start a project

Surveys

Build surveys with a drag-and-drop builder, reach the right researchers, and analyse responses.

Run a survey

And more…

Conferences, messaging, your calendar, and plans & billing.

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New to ResearchConnectX?

ResearchConnectX (RCX) is an AI-powered research collaboration platform. It connects researchers with complementary skills, interests and opportunities — helping you find collaborators, join projects, run surveys and discover conferences that match your expertise.

If you've just signed up, we recommend this path:

Create your account — sign up with email or SSO (Google, Microsoft or ORCID) and verify your email.
Complete the onboarding wizard — five quick steps that set up your profile and subject areas.
Improve your profile — link your external research profiles so the AI understands your work.
Check your Smart Matches — see projects, conferences and surveys picked for you.

Your home base

Your dashboard brings everything together: your profile score, project invitations, recommended conferences, quick surveys and the newest members of the community.

The ResearchConnectX dashboard

Works with the tools you already use

Link your existing research profiles and RCX keeps your publications and metrics up to date automatically.

Need a hand?

Use the search at the top of this page to find any topic, or head to the in-app Help once you're signed in.