SciVal Experts: A Collaborative Tool

Abstract

SciVal Experts is a resource for finding experts and fostering collaboration. The tool creates researcher profiles with automatically updated publication and grant information and faculty-inputted curriculum vitae, more fully capturing a researcher's body of work. SciVal Experts indexes campus-based “experts” by research topic, allowing faculty to find potential research partners and mentors, furthering translational research opportunities and dissemination of knowledge.

KEYWORDS:

• Bibliometric analysis
• bibliometrics
• faculty profiles
• MeSH
• researcher profiles
• SciVal experts

Acknowledgments

Comments and suggestions should be sent to the Column Editor, Emily Vardell ([email protected]).

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Notes on contributors

Emily Vardell

Emily Vardell, MLS ([email protected]) is Director for Reference, Education, and Community Engagement, Department of Health Informatics, Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1601 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.

Tanya Feddern-Bekcan

Tanya Feddern-Bekcan, MLIS, AHIP, MOT, OTR/L ([email protected]) is Head of Education, Department of Health Informatics, Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1601 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.

Mary Moore

Mary Moore, PhD ([email protected]) is Executive Director, Department of Health Informatics, Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1601 NW 10th Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.