Recently, I have had several projects that required me to
identify experts in a subject area. When the field of expertise is scientific or medical, often the
best way to identify experts is see who has published papers on a topic and who
is frequently cited by others. Generally, I have used some power-search
techniques in Dialog.com to data-mine the SciSearch database.
Through ResearchBuzz, I recently
found another resource - Authoratory.
This database has data-mined the last six years of PubMed, the
huge database of medical literature maintained by the US National Library of
Medicine. It enables you to find the most prolific writers on a topic -- type
in a search term and you see a list of authors whose articles cover those
topics.
for more details on Authoratory, see my April 2007 InfoTip.
May 2 update:
Authoratory is now accepting payments for non-academic users -- $250/6 months or $400/year.
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