Comparison of research networking tools and research profiling systems

Research networking (RN) is about using tools to identify, locate and use research and scholarly information about people and resources. Research networking tools (RN tools) serve as knowledge management systems for the research enterprise. RN tools connect institution-level/enterprise systems, national research networks, publicly available research data (e.g., grants and publications), and restricted/proprietary data by harvesting information from disparate sources into compiled profiles for faculty, investigators, scholars, clinicians, community partners and facilities. RN tools facilitate collaboration and team science to address research challenges through the rapid discovery and recommendation of researchers, expertise and resources.[1][2]

RN tools differ from search engines like Google in that RN tools access information in databases and other data not limited to web pages. They also differ from social networking systems in that they represent a compendium of data ingested from authoritative and verifiable sources rather than predominantly individually-posted information, making RN tools more reliable.[3] Yet, RN tools have sufficient flexibility to allow for profile editing. RN tools provide resources to bolster human connections:[4] they can make non-intuitive matches, do not depend on serendipity and do not have a propensity to return only to previously identified collaborations/collaborators. RN tools generally have associated analytical capabilities that enable evaluation of collaboration and cross-disciplinary research/scholarly activity, especially over time.

RN tools and research profiling systems can help researchers gain recognition. Active promotion of scholarship is an aspect of the publication cycle. Commercial and non-profit services help researchers increase visibility and recognition. Digital researcher services enhance discoverability, shareability and citability of scholarship. According to Shanks and Arlitsch,[5] digital researcher services fall into three categories:

  • Author/Researcher Identification—these services provide infrastructure that may be used in the other two categories, such as unique identifiers and name disambiguation.
  • Academic and Professional Networking—most succinctly described as “social networking for academics,” these services focus on connecting users based on research interest, affiliation, geography or other variables.
  • Reference and Citation Management—these tools and services include some of the functionality and features of other categories, although their primary focus is on management of citations that a researcher compiles for use within a publication or for sharing with other researchers.

Importantly, data harvested into RN tools can be repurposed, especially if available as Linked Open Data (RDF triples). These RN tools enhance research support activities by providing data for customized, web pages, CV/biosketch generation and data tables for grant proposals.

General

General
Research Networking Tool Link to Product Page Developer/Owner Open source Adopters
AcademicLabs AcademicLabs AcademicLabs No Top pharmaceutical companies, biotech companies, academics from hundreds of universities, worldwide.
Activity Insight Activity Insight[6] Digital Measures[7] No Hundreds of major research institutions around the world
C-IKNOW[8][9] C-IKNOW Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) - Northwestern University Yes National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation
PROFILES by Mentis (formerly Collaborative Partnership / Profile System) PROFILES by Mentis][10] Inknowledge, Inc (previously University of Texas at Arlington) No (Profiles is available in a free forever plan) UT Arlington, UT Pan American, University of North Texas Health Science Center, UT El Paso, UT San Antonio, UT Tyler, UT Health Science Center, University of North Texas (formerly), UT Dallas, UT Health Center at Tyler, Texas Christian University, Gulf Coast Consortia: Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and several others)
Community Academic Profiles - CAP Community Academic Profiles Stanford University No Stanford University
Converis Converis Clarivate Analytics No Several universities, governments and funders across North and South America, Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Sub Saharan Africa and Asia.
Curvita Profile Manager Curvita Profile Manager SciMed Solutions No University of North Carolina, University of Virginia, Duke University
CUSP - Columbia University Scientific Profiles CUSP Columbia University No Columbia University
Digital Vita DigitalVita Center for Dental Informatics - University of Pittsburgh Yes University of Pittsburgh, Pitt Health Sciences Center
Dimensions Dimensions Digital Science No University of Michigan, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, University of California San Diego. See case studies.
Elsevier's Pure Pure Elsevier No 250 implementations worldwide containing profiles for over 185,000 researcher profiles. See Pure client list.
Elsevier's SciVal SciVal Elsevier No Over 200 adopters worldwide
Epernicus Solutions & Epernicus Network Epernicus Epernicus No (but Epernicus Network is free to use) Harvard, MIT, Indiana University, Stanford, University of California Berkeley (but not exclusively)
Epistemio Epistemio Epistemio No N/A (platform is directed toward individual researcher use)
ERIM Member Profile System (ERIM MIS) People ERIM People profile system Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands No Erasmus University
Esploro Esploro Ex Libris No > 10 in early adopter program; Ex-Libris has a large presence in the higher Education community
EUREKA! Enhancing Student Research EUREKA University of Texas at Austin (UTA) No University of Texas at Austin
Expertise @ Maryland UM Experts University of Maryland Yes (will be) University of Maryland College Park
Faculty Profile System UC Irvine Faculty Profile System University of California Irvine No UC Irvine
Faculty Profiles System Stony Brook University Faculty Profiles System Stony Brook University No Stony Brook University
Faculty Research Information Profile (FRIP) Discontinued. Work on this system ceased; moved on to developing Digital Vita University of Pittsburgh N/A (formerly) University of Pittsburgh
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index Academic Analytics Academic Analytics, LLC No Unknown
Faculty180 Faculty180 Interfolio No Institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada.
GENIUS InfoEd GENIUS InfoEd Global No Many Big Ten/CIC institutions
Google Google search generated from an institution's home page or Google search limited to only one domain (e.g. university.edu) Google No (but anyone can access Google) Anyone can access
HUBzero HUBzero Purdue University Yes[11] Indiana CTSI, Indiana University, Purdue University, Notre Dame
iamResearcher iamResearcher University of Southampton, UK Unknown N/A (platform is directed toward individual researcher use)
iAMscientist iAMscientist iAMscientist.inc No Unknown
i2iConnect i2iConnect Indiana University No (but original software from ThemesJoomla is) N/A (platform is directed toward individual researcher use)
InCites InCites Clarivate Analytics No Unknown
INDURE (Indiana Database for University Research Expertise) INDURE Indiana University / Purdue University No Ball State, Indiana University, Purdue University, University of Notre Dame
IRIS (Institutional Research Information System) IRIS CINECA Yes (will be in CERIF mode in first half of 2016) 60 universities[12]
Knode Knode Knode No Multiple, anyone can use, collaborating with VIVO and UCSF
The Lens The Lens Cambia No (but free to use and API available) Researcher, Universities, Research institutes, Patent Offices
Lattes Platform Lattes CNPq - Brazil Unknown N/A (Platform is directed toward individual researcher use in Brazil)
LatticeGrid[13] LatticeGrid public Wiki Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS) - Biomedical Informatics Center (NUBIC) Yes Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine & Cancer Center, UCSF Cancer Center, Fox Chase Cancer Center, University of Michigan, Case Western University
LinkedIn LinkedIn LinkedIn No (but LinkedIn is free to use) N/A (Platform is directed toward individual researcher use. Millions of users are registered globally.)
Life Science Network Life Science Network Life Science Network gGmbH Yes (upon request) Anyone can use.
Loki[14] Loki University of Iowa No University of Iowa Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
Lyterati Lyterati Entigence Corporation No George Washington University, The New School, Lehigh University
McCormick Collaboration Visualization Tool Collaboration at McCormick Northwestern University No McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University
Mendeley Mendeley Elsevier No Anyone can use
MizzouLinks none available University of Missouri Unknown University of Missouri
MyScienceWork MyScienceWork Unknown No (but anyone can register and use the network) Anyone can register and use. The network is directed at the individual researcher
OSU:pro OSU:pro Ohio State University No (but can be licensed) Ohio State University
Pivot Pivot ProQuest, LLC No 100 university campuses and research organizations globally
Portfolio & Showroom Portfolio & Showroom University of Applied Arts Vienna Yes (Apache License) University of Applied Arts Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Bertha von Suttner Privatuniversität, Catholic Private University of Linz, Mozarteum University Salzburg (testing), (source code )
Profiles Research Networking Software Profiles Harvard University Yes (BSD license) Harvard, UCSF, and many others (see Profiles users )
REACH NC Life Science Experts Visualization Tool REACH NC RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute, a collaboration between University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University and North Carolina State University) Duke Research Triangle Institute, University of North Carolina General Administration No (but free to the public) Appalachian State University Duke University East Carolina University Elizabeth City State University Fayetteville State University NC A&T North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University RTI International UNC-Asheville University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC-Charlotte UNC-Greensboro UNC-Pembroke UNC-Wilmington Western Carolina University Winston-Salem State University
Research Accelerator YCCI Research Accelerator ResearchAccelerator.org Unknown Yale University
ResearcherID ResearcherID Clarivate Analytics No (but ResearcherID network is free to access and use by individual users) N/A (Platform is directed toward individual researcher use)
ScholarBridge ScholarBridge ScholarBridge LLC No 14 university members and free access for any individual student or researcher
SciENcv SciENcv A pilot program sponsored by the Federal Demonstration Partnership and the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) supported by the STAR METRICS program Yes Sponsored by the Federal Demonstration Partnership and the NSTC's interagency groups: Research Business Model (RBM) and Science of Science Policy (SoSP)
Symplectic Elements Symplectic Elements Digital Science No (However, an open source [1] is available.) 115+ major research institutions around the world, including the University of Cambridge (UK), University of Oxford (UK), University of Melbourne (AUS), Duke University (US), University of Auckland (NZ), Tufts University (US), and University of Michigan (US).

(see Some of Symplectic's clients)

UNIWeb UNIWeb Proximify No University of Ottawa, McGill University, Dalhousie University, University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus, École de technologie supérieure, CIMVHR
VIVO[1][15] VIVO Duraspace Yes[16] Cornell University, University of Florida, Washington University in St. Louis, Weill Cornell Medical College, Indiana University, Ponce School of Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, Duke University, University of Colorado at Boulder, Northwestern University, University of Nebraska, University of Melbourne, Griffith University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc. There are currently over 140 VIVO implementations in the United States and international VIVO projects in over 25 countries.[17]
WorkWeb WebWork at archive.org Columbia University No Columbia University
Yaffle[18][19] Yaffle Memorial University of Newfoundland Yes Memorial University of Newfoundland

Data sources, ingest and export formats

This table provides information on the types of data used in each RN tool and how this data is ingested, along with data export formats (e.g. XML, RDF, RIS, PDF)

Data sources, interoperability
Research Networking Tool Data Source / Infeed Functionality Auto Ingest? Linked Open Data? Data Export Types
Academic Room Manual entry of data by users. May be some auto-ingest of PubMed citation data Unknown Unknown Unknown
AcademicLabs Pubmed, ORCID, funded projects from a.o. NIH, NSF, France, Flanders, Clinical Trials from WHO, ClinicalTrials.gov, EU Clinical Trial Register, Patents from USPTO and EPO, national and regional public repositories, websites, direct input by researchers. Yes Unknown XLS, CSV, JSON
Activity Insight Information typically imported from the following sources: PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, RefWorks, Banner, Datatel, PeopleSoft, CampusVue, Jenzabar, Sedona, EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, BiBTeX, a RESTful web services API, CSV Data Imports, etc. Also supports various methods of manual entry. Yes Yes RTF, XLS, CSV, PDF, HTML, XML
C-IKNOW Network Surveys, automated upload for any kind of network data including archival, scientometric, webometric and computer log data. Also import data in GraphML, RDF, and DL (used by UCINET) Yes(for defined data) Yes RDF, XML/RDF
PROFILES by Mentis (formerly Collaborative Partnership / Profile System) Automated or on-demand import from PubMed, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Scopus, Banner, PeopleSoft, Web Services, Flat files and Manual Entry. Can be easily configured with any institutional subscription or database. Yes Yes RTF, XLS, CSV, PDF, HTML, XML, JSON
Community Academic Profiles - CAP CAP automatically generates a profile for all faculty, physicians, students, postdocs and staff (both academic and administrative) in the School of Medicine. Data flows automatically from a variety of source systems. Yes Unknown Unknown
Converis Default connection to Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, Scopus, pubmed, europubmed, etc. Ay internal data feed (HR, finance can be configured) Yes—can be pre-populated and alerts recommend new data Yes—can be used to power VIVO Excel (.xlsx), EndNote (.ciw), BibTex (.bib), XML, JSON, PDF, RTF
Curvita Profile Manager Information collected from university systems Yes Unknown Unknown
CUSP - Columbia University Scientific Profiles Databases for employees and grants; PubMed for publications Yes Unknown Unknown
Digital Vita PubMed, some from HR system, direct input from investigators. System authenticates users through an application developed by the IT group that supports the Senior Vice Chancellor of Health Sciences; that system accesses the HR system for data about employees' rank and status (active or not), working with the grants office to get a regular report of data from their proposal database. Manually entered publications/presentations are automatically forwarded to co-authors. Yes (Some) Yes PDF, RTF
Elsevier's Pure (now integrated with SciVal Experts) Sources include Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, Embase, Mendeley, arXiv, Worldcat, CrossRef, Journal TOC, CAB Abstracts, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System and SciVal Funding opportunities; Data from institutions' internal systems, including HR data, grants, publications, patents, core facilities/resources, etc. Researchers or proxy users can enter additional content into the profiles, including research statements, research interest keywords, publications, grants, patents, books, creative works, education, researcher datasets, press clippings, awards and honors; free text can also be imported. Integration with all major institutional repositories. Yes Yes XML, RDF, SPARQL, CSV, CERIF XML, MS Word, Excel, PDF, ATOM/XML web services, EndNote/Reference Manager, BibTex, various government assessment submission formats
Elsevier's SciVal Scopus and ScienceDirect usage data Yes No CSV, PDF, PNG, JPEG
Epernicus Solutions & Epernicus Network Data entered by applicant No Unknown Unknown
ERIM Member Profile System (ERIM MIS) ERIM MIS database, Erasmus Publication Repository, Oracle portal Yes Unknown Unknown
Esploro Information is imported from ProQuest‘s Summon Service and from the following sources: PubMed, ORCID, BiBTeX, a RESTful web services API, CSV Data Imports, etc. Also supports methods of manual entry. Yes Yes RTF, XLS, CSV, PDF, HTML, XML
EUREKA! Enhancing Student Research Information about faculty research interests No Unknown Unknown
Expertise @ Maryland Central university faculty database Yes Unknown Unknown
Faculty Profile System Manually entered data about the faculty (faculty can enter, a proxy can enter, or designated staff work on maintaining profiles) No (Faculty status verified by comparison with UC Irvine HR's Academic Personnel system) Unknown Unknown
Faculty Research Information Profile (FRIP) Discontinued. Work on this system ceased; moved on to developing Digital Vita N/A N/A N/A
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index FSP Database (2007–2008) Yes Unknown Unknown
GENIUS InfoEd proprietary grant funding databases Yes (But only of InfoEd database data. Faculty profile information must be entered manually.) Unknown Unknown
Google Institution's directory, news releases, and other institutional websites Yes Yes Many types, depending on the format of the file retrieved.
HUBzero Comprehensive portal to support virtual research organizations including modular Web 2.0 tools, modeling and simulation tools, computational integration, identity management, workflow, personal profile management, data management, education Yes Yes Unknown
iamResearcher Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
iAMscientist PubMed Yes Unknown Unknown
i2iConnect Listings of industry licensing representatives categorized by product and disease categories with matchmaking and collaborator discovery features Yes Unknown Unknown
InCites Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, ESI, JCR No No XML, .mbb, XLS
INDURE (Indiana Database for University Research Expertise) Faculty-entered information about research, faculty home pages Yes? (Partial?) Unknown Unknown
Lattes Database Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
LatticeGrid Medical School Faculty database, PubMed, InfoEd, Northwestern's eIRB database Yes Yes Microsoft Word, Excel, PDF
The Lens ORCID and other publicly available sources Yes Yes BibTex, JSON, CSV, PNG, SVG
LinkedIn Information entered manually by user No Unknown Unknown
Life Science Network PubMed / Information entered manually by user. No Yes CSV (for some modules).
Loki Local Medline, PubMed, local NSF award database, local NIH RePORTER database, campus directory services Yes (Partial) Unknown Unknown
Lyterati PubMed, Google Scholar, BibTex, Ellucian, PeopleSoft, Workday, RESTful APIs, Template Driven Imports, CSV, Excel, Manual Entry Using Webpages, Faculty CVs Yes Unknown PDF, MS Word, Excel, CSV, Web Services
McCormick Collaboration Visualization Tool Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Yes Unknown Unknown
MizzouLinks Information collected from interviews and imported from a few institutional systems No Unknown Unknown
MyScienceWork Information input by user No Unknown Unknown
OSU:pro OSU systems Yes Unknown Unknown
Pivot Combines editorially created data on funding opportunities and profiles. Profile data sources from publicly available university organization and faculty member/researcher information, user-generated data, PubMed, Agricola, ERIC, and ProQuest citation databases, indexed faculty/researcher webpages. Yes (for all citation data from sources listed in DataSource. Profiles editorially created, but user-generated profiles also included) No Unknown
Portfolio & Showroom ORCID, library catalogue, GND, VIAF No Yes BibTex, CSV, PDF
Profiles Research Networking Software HR systems, PubMed, NIH RePORTER, commercial sources of publication data, institution-provided and user managed data Yes Yes XML, RDF, SPARQL
REACH NC Life Science Experts Visualization Tool SciVal Experts, RAMSES Yes Yes RSI, CSV, Web-service API
Research Accelerator Information entered by individual members No Unknown Unknown
ResearcherID Manually entered biographical and bibliographical information. Members can search Web of Science, Web of Knowledge, and other online collections, or manually enter publication data. Accounts can be created by individuals or by administrators using a web service. Yes (Partial; profiles created by administrators are pre-populated for individuals to review.) No None
SciENcv Information that would normally be found in a curriculum vitae or biosketch Yes Unknown Uses open data exchange standards
Streamlyne FundFit Information collected from web scraping and proprietary methods to match researchers with funding opportunities across the Streamlyne FundFit AI / ML SaaS platform. Yes No Native export integration to Streamlyne Research platform
Symplectic Elements Custom import from any internal data source via API, out of the box automatic bibliographic import (subject to subscriptions where appropriate) from arXiv, Cinii, CrossRef, DBLP, Europe PMC, figshare, PubMed, RePeC, Scopus, Web of Science, with more planned. Secure ORCID integration also available. In-feed from HR/Identity systems, internal grant databases. Integration with all major repository technologies. Yes Through integrated portals like VIVO and Profiles RNS Yes Source for linked data CSV, CERIF XML, MS Word, Excel, PDF (APA6), ATOM/XML web services, EndNote/Reference Manager, BibTex, RDF (Linked Data),

various government assessment submission formats

UNIWeb Users can enter their CV or bibliographic data manually, or import from the Canadian Common CV, PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, Bibtek, Endnote. Unknown Unknown XML, MS Word, Excel
VIVO PubMed, NIH RePORTER, PeopleSoft, internal HR & administrative databases, Scopus (with institutional license), Web of Science (with institutional license); emphasis on verified data sources, many many others being ingested at various institutions. Yes (manual data entry possible, too) Yes RDF, GraphXML, CSV file
Yaffle Memorial University systems Yes Unknown Unknown

Data interoperability and integration

Whether a research networking tool is compatible with institutional enterprise systems (e.g. human resources databases), can be integrated with other external products or add-ons and can be used for regional, national, international or federated connectivity.

Interoperability
Research Networking Tool Interoperability with Institutional Enterprise Systems Interoperability with External Systems Integration with Add-on Components or Products Regional, National, International or Federated Connectivity?
Academic Room No unknown unknown The system is voluntary, so national and international by active inclusion
Activity Insight Yes (Banner, Datatel, PeopleSoft, CampusVue, Jenzabar, etc.) Yes (Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of Science, RefWorks, etc.) Yes (EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, tools which generate BiBTeX, CSV or XML files) No
C-IKNOW No Yes(is possible) Unknown No
PROFILES by Mentis (formerly Collaborative Partnership / Profile System) Yes Yes (has API, works with Elsevier PURE, Activity Insight, VIVO etc.) Yes (funding opportunities from grants.gov) Yes (National and International)
Community Academic Profiles - CAP Yes Yes Yes No
Converis Yes - Bi-directional and one way integrations with institution's enterprise systems available either through APIs or Kettle. Yes - Standard integrations with Web of Science, EndNote, Kopernio, InCites, EuroPMC, Research Professional, iThenticate, VIVO, Scopus and others. Individual integrations needed for specific institutions can also be configured via APIs or Kettle. Yes - Integrates with Pentaho Data Integration, InCites and VIVO Yes
Curvita Profile Manager Yes Yes Unknown No
CUSP - Columbia University Scientific Profiles No Yes PubMed only Unknown No
Digital Vita No Yes (only PubMed) Unknown Yes National federated connectivity through DIRECT2Experts
Elsevier's Pure Yes institutions have access to Web Services in order to feed data into internal databases; Web Services can be consumed as directed by institution. Pure currently ingests a range of data from institutions' own systems, including grants data, HR data, institutional repositories, publication databases, book listings and more. Yes Scopus, PubMed, NIH RePORTER, Embase, Mendeley, arXiv, Worldcat, CrossRef, JournalTOC, CAB Abstracts, SAO/NSA Astrophysics Data System, Web of Science, institution's internal databases, including HR data, grants, publications, patents, etc. Yes Pure integrates with SciVal to allow easy analysis of your researcher impact with the benchmark capabilities of SciVal. Yes The Pure Community Module interconnects participating institutions into a single centralized Pure instance. Additional functionality enables users to search across different institutions or run cross-campus reports [2]
Elsevier's SciVal Yes (Institutions have access to the API with Scopus data in order to feed data into internal databases.) Yes (Integrates with Pure.) Yes (Scopus & ScienceDirect) No
Epernicus Solutions & Epernicus Network Yes (Possible, for Epernicus Solutions) No Unknown No
ERIM Member Profile System (ERIM MIS) Yes Yes ID resolver included, so links to external systems are created, like SSRN, ResearcherID, Google scholar alerts & Search, social mention search from personal page, MEEBO sharing possible, Tynt statistics included Unknown No
Esploro Yes Esploro provides multiple REST APIs for integration with enterprise systems such as HR Systems, CRIS / RIM, Institutional Repositories, profiles, grant management systems and more. Integration with repositories can be done also via OAI-PMH and Esploro automatically captures data, such as outputs, grants, researchers profiles and more from multiple institutional and cross- institutional systems. Yes Integration with the, ProQuest‘s Summon Service, ORCID, PubMed, CrossRef, DataCite etc. Files can be imported and exported in formats like DublinCore, DataCite and BibTeX. Yes Yes Plans to enable consortium and collaboration capabilities based on Ex Libris Alma Network and Community Zones
EUREKA! Enhancing Student Research No No Unknown No
Expertise @ Maryland May be possible No Unknown No
Faculty Profile System No No Unknown No
Faculty Research Information Profile (FRIP) Discontinued. Work on this system ceased; moved on to developing Digital Vita N/A N/A N/A
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index Unknown Unknown Unknown No
GENIUS Yes Yes Only other InfoEd modules (SMARTS: Service that automatically sends notices of funding opportunities via email. You provide keywords that describe your research interests, and SMARTS matches those keywords with present funding programs; SPIN: Enables subscribers to directly search for all sponsored programs, past and present, contained within the InfoEd database) Unknown No
Google No


Yes Possibly No
HUBzero No Yes PubMed; data is semantic web compliant as of August 2011 Possibly No
iamResearcher Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
iAMscientist No Yes PubMed Unknown No
i2iConnect No No Unknown Yes
InCites Yes (Institutions have access to Web Services in order to feed data into internal databases.) Yes (Integrates with Converis.) Yes (Web of Science, ResearcherID) No
INDURE (Indiana Database for University Research Expertise) No No Unknown Yes for 4 Indiana institutions only
Lattes Database Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
LatticeGrid Yes InfoEd, eIRB, Medical School faculty database Yes (PubMed) Yes (Possible) Yes National federated connectivity through DIRECT2Experts
LinkedIn No No Unknown No
Life Science Network No Yes (Pubmed) No No
Loki Yes Possible Yes Unknown No
Lyterati Yes (Ellucian, PeopleSoft, Workday InfoEd, Coeus) Yes (PubMed, VIVO, Google Scholar, BibTex or CSV Sources) Yes (BibTex and CSV) Yes, capable
McCormick Collaboration Visualization Tool No Yes Only Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Unknown No
MizzouLinks Maybe No Unknown No
MyScienceWork No Unknown Unknown Yes
OSU:pro No Unknown Unknown No
Pivot No Maybe Unknown Unknown
Portfolio & Showroom Yes Yes ORCID, university's repository, library catalogue. Files can be imported and exported as BibTeX. Yes Yes Showroom works as a cross-instance search.
Profiles Research Networking Software Yes Yes Pubmed, commercial sources of publication data, semantic web applications via VIVO ontology. Yes Yes Profiles Users Group has regular conference calls and works on collaborative software development projects. Profiles can perform federated queries across other Profiles instances, and with other products using linked open data (VIVO ontology) and the DIRECT2Experts API.
REACH NC Life Science Experts Visualization Tool Yes Yes Through SciVal API No No
Research Accelerator No No Unknown No
ResearcherID No Yes Through ResearcherID download service, institutions can load data into their internal systems. Also is integrated with other Clarivate Analytics offerings, including Web of Science, EndNote, and Research In View Unknown No
SciENcv Yes (is possible through open data exchange standards) Yes Unknown No
Symplectic Elements Yes Clients have the ability to integrate with existing web profile management systems, export data for business intelligence solutions and easily submit research outcomes for various government assessment exercises. This includes HR, publications, teaching activities, grants, institutional repositories, and any other system providing or consuming research data. Yes Elements integrates with a variety of external systems including: Altmetric, figshare, ORCID, SHERPA/RoMEO (licensing information), DOAJ (licensing information) Yes Elements can be linked to all major open repository technologies and an open source [3] is also available. Yes Elements public profiling tool, Discovery Module, can be integrated with Direct2Expert.
VIVO Yes Data can be ingested from a wide variety of local sources (including HR, grants, course databases, institutional repositories, membership rosters, research interests, and many others) to reflect a complete view of the institution's priorities and efforts. Yes see mini-grants <https://web.archive.org/web/20121028002514/http://vivoweb.org/blog/2011/01/award-announcement-vivo-collaborative-research-projects-program>; eagle-i; Drupal; many others - any tool that can consume open linked data. Other ongoing collaborations with Wellspring (maintaining VIVO profiles with a focus upon tech transfer and also as a 3rd party implementation service provider) and with Symplectic. Yes VIVO collaborates with eagle-I on research resources. Future plans include adding many additional data types which are meaningful in the academic research setting. VIVO data are structured using a comprehensive ontology designed for local extension and major ontology "plugins" such as BIBO and eagle-i. Yes VIVO Consortium received $12.2M NIH ARRA U24 award in 2009 to fully develop software and create national system of federated research expertise directories/research networking systems; All other semantic web-compliant software platforms can be integrated into the consortium (example: Harvard Profiles). Participant in Direct2Experts and VIVO Search
Yaffle No No Unknown The Canadian research funding councils as well as knowledge mobilization networks across the country (governments and universities) are working to develop a model to share what Yaffle has built

Users profiled, user interactivity and networking functionality

This table provides information on what user population is profiled for each tool, ability for users to edit their own profile data and type of networking. Active networking means that the user can enter connections to the network by entering colleagues' names. Passive networking means that the software infers network connections from a user's publication co-authors and builds a network from these names.

User facilities and social graph
Research Networking Tool Profiled User Population Can Users Update Their Own Profile Data? Type of Networking (Active or Passive) Includes Functionality to Match Expertise with Funding Opportunities
Academic Room Anyone can create a profile. Profiled categories include "Faculty", "Grad Students", "Undergrads", "Professionals" Yes Active No
AcademicLabs Research Group profiles and profiles for all researchers with ORCID, publications, patents, clinical trials or funded projects. Yes Active and Passive Yes
Activity Insight Faculty, Staff, Graduate Students Yes Active and Passive Yes
C-IKNOW Defined using Web of science ID or on an ad hoc basis No Active and Passive No
PROFILES by Mentis (formerly Collaborative Partnership / Profile System) Faculty, Students, Staff, Equipment Owners, Research Centers, Facilities, Technologies, Units etc. as per institution's needs Yes Active and Passive Yes
Community Academic Profiles - CAP Active Stanford physicians, School of Medicine faculty, students, staff and postdocs. Yes Active and Passive Unknown
Curvita Profile Manager All Unknown No networking Unknown
CUSP - Columbia University Scientific Profiles All Columbia faculty Yes Active Unknown
Digital Vita All Yes Passive Unknown
Elsevier's Pure Any researchers can be included Yes the Administration module enables users to enter content into their profiles via forms, uploads or imports. Content types supported include (but not limited to): Persons, awarded grants, journals, org units, projects, events, equipment, activities, press clippings, funding opportunities, research outputs (from journal articles to memorandums of understanding), impacts, applications, datasets, student theses, courses taught and prizes Active and Passive Yes Funding Institution within Pure, interacts with Pure collecting funding opportunities to the profile researcher page with no manual effort.
Elsevier's SciVal All published researchers Yes, SciVal links to profiles in Scopus and researchers can submit feedback on profiles within Scopus to have papers added or removed. Passive No
Epernicus Solutions & Epernicus Network Anyone who enters a profile (for Epernicus Network) Yes (for Epernicus Network) Passive Unknown
Epistemio Any researcher who creates a profile Yes N/A No
ERIM Member Profile System (ERIM MIS) Multiple faculties at Erasmus use it Unknown Active Unknown
Esploro Faculty, Staff, Library Staff, Graduate Students Yes Active and Passive Yes (integration with Pivot and Research Professional)
EUREKA! Enhancing Student Research University of Texas at Austin faculty Unknown No networking Unknown
Expertise @ Maryland All Unknown Currently passive, but building active Unknown
Faculty Profile System Any faculty at UC Irvine Yes No networking Unknown
Faculty Research Information Profile (FRIP) N/A N/A N/A N/A
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index Federally funded, published faculty Unknown No networking Unknown
GENIUS Any faculty member who creates a profile on the system Yes Passive Unknown
Google Anyone can be searched on Google N/A No networking No
HUBzero Indiana University, Indiana University School of Medicine, Purdue University, U. of Notre Dame, Regenstrief Unknown Active Unknown
iamResearcher Any researcher who creates a profile Yes Passive (?) Unknown
iAMscientist Any researcher who creates a profile Yes Passive Unknown
i2iConnect Industry licensing representatives Unknown Passive Unknown
InCites All published Yes Passive No
INDURE All faculty at 4 Indiana institutions Unknown Passive Unknown
LatticeGrid Currently Medical School faculty only. Developed for biomedical research organizations Yes (Users can update the Medical School faculty database, which then feeds LatticeGrid Passive) Yes (Connected to a Northwestern tool called FacultyConnect to match faculty with a special limited set of Northwestern-specific non-federal funding opportunities in the life and biomedical sciences domains)
Lattes Database Curriculum and institutions database of Science and Technology areas in Brazil. Anyone can create a profile. Yes No apparent networking Unknown
The Lens Profiles are automatically created and can be linked (e.g. via ORCID) Yes Active and Passive Unknown
LinkedIn Anyone who creates a LinkedIn profile Yes Passive and Active Unknown
Life Science Network Anyone who creates a profile Yes Active and Passive No
Loki All faculty at University of Iowa Yes Passive Unknown
Loop Anyone who creates a profile Yes Passive and Active Unknown
Lyterati Faculty, academic administrators (department chairs, deans, provost), center directors, grad students, staff Yes Active and Passive Yes (through advanced searching and web profile exploration)
McCormick Collaboration Visualization Tool All Northwestern publications from Web of Science No Passive No
MizzouLinks Currently a pilot group from two Missouri interdisciplinary centers Unknown Passive Unknown
MyScienceWork Anyone who creates a profile Yes Active and Passive Unknown
OSU:pro All OSU faculty Unknown No apparent networking Unknown
Pivot 3 million profiles (and growing, according to the publisher). Profiles are compiled even without user registration, but can only be viewed by registered users Yes Passive Yes through a direct connection with the COS product
Portfolio & Showroom All users may be included (as defined by the university). Yes Passive and Active No
Profiles All users as defined by each institution. "Profiles" are also created for institutions, departments, concepts, publications, networks, events or any other class defined in the ontology Yes Passive and Active No
ReachNC UNC faculty in various disciplines, Duke, and RTI Fellows Yes Passive No
Research Accelerator Any member of the Yale research enterprise Yes (?) Passive Unknown
ResearcherID Anyone who creates a profile Yes Passive and Active Unknown
SciENcv Not yet established Not yet established No apparent networking No
Symplectic Elements All users may be included (as defined by institution). Yes (Profiles are automatically populated with data, as dictated by internal and external data feeds. Some profile data can be manually curated by end users, proxy users, or administrators. Users can create new relationships between elements.) Passive and Active Yes - Through integrations with research news and funding information provider *Research, researchers are able to get tailored funding opportunities linked to their Elements accounts.
VIVO All users (as defined by the institution) Yes Passive and Active Possibly
Yaffle All Memorial University faculty Yes Passive Unknown

Controlled vocabulary, ontologies and author disambiguation

This table provides information on the types of controlled vocabulary or thesauri used by the tools, as well as ontologies supported and whether author disambiguation is performed by the software.

Ontologies and disambiguation
Research Networking Tool Thesaurus/Controlled Vocabulary Used Ontology/Ontologies Supported Automatic Author Disambiguation
Academic Room unknown unknown No
AcademicLabs Term suggestions and filters use a.o. MeSH and MAG unknown Yes
Activity Insight Yes Fully customizable data collection screens; campus, college and department-defined ontologies Yes
C-IKNOW Not applicable Uses elements of FOAF and Dublin Core in RDF; uses Pellet reasoning engine No (but can be done in conjunction with software developed at Northwestern University)
PROFILES by Mentis (formerly Collaborative Partnership / Profile System) Yes Dublin Core, Social Media and compatible with VIVO and other popular ontologies Yes
Community Academic Profiles - CAP MeSH Unknown Yes (partial)
Converis In some fields CASRAI, VIVO Yes (Author clustering capabilities used to match authors with papers)
Curvita Profile Manager Unknown Unknown No
CUSP - Columbia University Scientific Profiles Unknown Unknown Yes
Digital Vita Unknown Unknown No (but can be done manually by authors)
Elsevier's Pure (now integrated with SciVal Experts) The "Elsevier Fingerprinting Engine" uses ten thesauri including MeSH to match and identify key concepts for an individual or group of people. Thesauri updates and expansion are ongoing. Maps to VIVO ontology Yes
Elsevier's SciVal The "Elsevier Fingerprinting Engine" uses ten thesauri including MeSH to match and identify key concepts for an individual or group of people. Thesauri updates and expansion are ongoing. Maps to VIVO ontology Yes
Epernicus Solutions & Epernicus Network Unknown Unknown No (can be done manually by authors)
ERIM Member Profile System (ERIM MIS) Unknown Unknown Yes (uses author ID numbers)
Esploro ProQuest thesaurus, ERA FOR, PQTD, and more, All thesauri are regularly updated. Plans to implement the VIVO ontology Yes
EUREKA! Enhancing Student Research Unknown Unknown No
Expertise @ Maryland Unknown Unknown Yes
Faculty Profile System Unknown Unknown No
Faculty Research Information Profile (FRIP) N/A N/A N/A
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index Unknown Unknown Unknown
GENIUS Unknown Unknown No
Google None (Google uses generic keywords) Unknown No (but can be done manually through Google Scholar "My Citations" functionality)
HUBzero Unknown Unknown No
iamResearcher Unknown Unknown No
iAMscientist Unknown Unknown No
i2iConnect Unknown Unknown No
InCites In some fields Unknown No (Though InCites can accept data from ResearcherID and Converis profiling systems for disambiguation)
INDURE Unknown Unknown N/A
LatticeGrid MeSH Uses elements of FOAF and other ontologies No (but can be done manually by authors)
Lattes Database Unknown Unknown Unknown
The Lens Yes Customizable data collection screens and university/institutional profiles Yes
LinkedIn None Unknown No
Life Science Network Unknown Unknown No (but can be done manually)
Loki Unknown Unknown Yes (uses campus directory for authentication)
Lyterati Yes Fully customizable ontology that maps to VIVO Yes (using parsing algorithm on free text)
McCormick Collaboration Visualization Tool None Unknown Yes
MizzouLinks Unknown Unknown No
MyScienceWork Unknown Unknown No
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) Unknown Unknown Yes
OSU:pro Unknown Unknown Unknown
Pivot Unknown Unknown Yes
Portfolio & Showroom Yes Yes The ontology's vocabulary is mapped to international ontologies (e.g. Getty AAT, GND, MARC Code List for Relators Scheme) Yes (users can also differentiate manually)
Profiles MeSH, others are being developed to go beyond the life and biomedical sciences VIVO RDF ontology with additional Profiles RDF classes and properties Yes Harvard Profiles uses an XML-based "disambiguation service" to import Medline publications and uses configurable heuristics in its disambiguation algorithm
ReachNC Scopus taxonomy uses MeSH and general keywords Maps to VIVO ontology Yes
Research Accelerator Unknown Unknown No
ResearcherID Unknown Unknown No (although authors can build their publication list and manually disambiguate)
SciENcv No thesaurus used Unknown No
Symplectic Elements MeSH, Fields of Research, ScienceMetrix. Supports mapping of publication, person and grants data to the VIVO ontology via their open source VIVO Harvester Extension, as well as Harvard Catalyst's Profiles RNS. Yes
VIVO VIVO uses several thesauri that are available through Semantic Web, including MeSH The VIVO Ontology was developed and supported by NIH-funded efforts and continues to be developed and built by its open source community at GitHub and in collaboration with the eagle-i project. Yes
Yaffle Unknown Unknown Unknown

Bibliometrics

This table provides information on the types of bibliometrics provided in the tool.

Biblometrics
Research Networking Tool h-index Citation count Altmetrics SNIP and SJR Journal Impact Factor* Other Comment
Academic Room
AcademicLabs Soon Yes Yes
Activity Insight Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
C-IKNOW
PROFILES by Mentis (formerly Collaborative Partnership / Profile System) Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Community Academic Profiles - CAP
Converis Yes Yes Yes Can integrate with altmetric data feed No Yes Category Normalized Citation Impact, Journal Normalized Citation Impact, Percentile in Category, Highly Cited Paper, Hot Paper, International Collaboration, Institutional Collaboration, Industry Collaboration and Open Access
Curvita Profile Manager
CUSP - Columbia University Scientific Profiles
Digital Vita
Elsevier's Pure (integrated with SciVal) Yes Yes Yes Altmetric and PlumX Yes No Field-weighted Citation Impact, Number of Authors, CiteScore
Elsevier's SciVal Yes Yes Yes Views data from ScienceDirect and Scopus Yes No 20+ indicators ranging from h, g & m indices, to Publications in Top Journal Percentiles, Field-Weighted Citation Impact, Academic-Corporate Collaboration Impact & Views per Publication
Epernicus Solutions & Epernicus Network
ERIM Member Profile System (ERIM MIS)
Esploro YesPlanned Yes integrated with external tools Yes Yes planned Yes planned Multiple research-related indicators to measure research outputs usage and impact
EUREKA! Enhancing Student Research
Expertise @ Maryland
Faculty Profile System
Faculty Research Information Profile (FRIP)
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index
GENIUS
Google Scholar Yes
HUBzero
iamResearcher
iAMscientist
i2iConnect
InCites Yes Yes Yes Recorded Future partnership provides customized newsfeed and institution activity from web content No Yes
INDURE
LatticeGrid
Lattes Database
The Lens Yes Yes Yes Yes Patent Citations, OA-Ratio, Collaborative Ratio
LinkedIn No No None
Life Science Network No No Yes (views counts, recommendations, rating scores calculated from anonymous and non-anonymous contributions) No No (but journals can be entered into the database and their IF indicated)
Loki
Lyterati
McCormick Collaboration Visualization Tool
MizzouLinks
MyScienceWork
OSU:pro
Pivot
Portfolio & Showroom No No No No No Portfolio & Showroom deliberately dispenses with bibliometrics and focuses on alternative quality measurement methods, such as the DORA initiative
Profiles
ReachNC Yes
Research Accelerator
ResearcherID Yes Yes
SciENcv
Symplectic Elements Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
VIVO Yes
Yaffle

See also

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