| Votes | By | Price | Discipline | Year Launched |
| Journal of Brief Ideas | FREE | Interdisciplinary |
Journal of Brief Ideas is essentially the Twitter of Scientific Journals. In the traditional world of academic publishing, new ideas often languish for years before appearing in print—buried under long drafting cycles, peer review delays, and the need to produce “complete” stories. Brief Ideas was launched to challenge this paradigm.
Brief Ideas is a micro-publication platform where researchers can publish fully citable scientific ideas in a compact format—typically no more than 200 words. It acts as a public timestamp, proof-of-origin, and scholarly communication channel for thoughts that are worth sharing but may not yet warrant a full paper.
It’s a playground for creativity, early hypotheses, abandoned but valuable concepts, and seeds for future collaboration.