About Authoratory

Authoratory is privately funded search engine for finding experts. Fully functional now, with many exciting features, Authoratory is still under active development.

The information provided on Authoratory.com web site is intended to help visitors to find experts in the specific areas of life-sciences, including chemistry, biology and medicine. Authoratory.com mission is to identify the experts and help visitors to find and evaluate them.

The content of Authoratory is produced by a computer program analyzing large amounts of data from PubMed. PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

The PubMed articles published by each author are carefully inspected by a computer to create a personalized report. All of the reports are available here on the Authoratory web site. The social network, coauthors, and affiliations report is show below:

Authoratory software data-mining techniques make it possible to discover new information about the authors - the information that is not apparent by reviewing one or two of their articles. For each selected author Authoratory gives the following:

• the list of most frequent coauthors (navigate the social network between the authors using their join publications)
• professional interests (as indicated by the MeSH keywords and by the statistical analysis of abstracts and publication titles)
• the author's affiliated institution and contact information
• the change of all these parameters across time

Authoratory keyword search is unique as well. It uses keyword frequencies to rank authors against each other. The more papers the particular author publishes for a specific keyword, the higher his rank is in the keyword listings. With Authoratory keyword search it 's possible to quickly find all authors with expertise in a specific narrow topic. The authors sorted by the frequency of keyword "Palladium" use are show below:

Authoratory is a result of data-mining research. This research includes tools for text analysis, fuzzy text summarization and keyword/keyphrase discovery. Given the fuzzy nature of the software algorithms and the underlying data, all Authoratory reports must only be considered as the approximate estimates of the author's real performance. As many other data-mining solutions, Authoratory is very powerful, but can be imprecise at times and have certain weaknesses. Please give us your opinions and suggestions so we can make Authoratory better.