Northwestern Scholars is a research networking tool powered by SciVal Experts that profiles and connects faculty members from all disciplines across Northwestern University to new research opportunities and collaborations at Northwestern and across the SciVal, Direct, and VIVO networks.

Northwestern Scholars is open to the public. Everyone can access department and faculty profiles to learn more about ongoing and past research and search these data by concept, faculty member last name, or full text.

All tenured and tenure-track faculty
All paid emeritus faculty
Research and Clinical faculty, at or above the rank of assistant professor, who are working at least 75% time
Contributed Services faculty, at or above the rank of assistant professor, with active grants
Continuing lecturer faculty in Weinberg
Academic full-time faculty, at or above the rank of assistant professor
Librarian faculty who have publications
Institutional Collaborators

To know more about the research of a specific faculty member, search by last name (using all or the first part of last name). To search a certain concept, enter a keyword or phrase into the "by concept" search box. You will be directed to a page where you will be asked to select from related concepts and to choose a subject area, i.e. Medicine and Life Sciences. Once the concept search is narrowed, all experts whose fingerprinted profiles match the search criteria will be displayed with the most relevant researchers appearing first. Click the plus signs next to each name to see a list of publications that deal with a concept you searched. You may add related concepts listed on the right side of the page to further refine your search. A "By Free Text" search broadens a concept search by bringing in content beyond the keywords. You may enter any text, such as publication abstracts and funding announcements, which will then be fingerprinted and matched with faculty members. Boolean search logic is enabled for both the “By Concept” and “By Free Text” searches -- using AND, OR, and NOT allows you to include or exclude and combine search terms to improve and refine your search results. To limit search results to pertinent researchers, only the top 50 results brought up by a full text search will be displayed. Concept and last name searches will display all faculty that match the search criteria.

With Northwestern Scholars you can search for any faculty member with a profile with SciVal Experts or a similar research networking tool. This includes faculty at many major universities and research institutions including Harvard, Cornell, the University of Michigan, and UIC, among others. Select either the SciVal Experts Community tab in the menu bar on the left side of the page to see faculty with research profiles powered by SciVal (for a full list of research institutions using SciVal Experts, click here) or the DIRECT2Experts tab just below, which includes profiled faculty across all research networks in the DIRECT2experts group (see link). In addition, every time you conduct a standard search using the search bar in the top right corner of the page you have the option of including researchers in the SciVal Experts community or other research networks by selecting the SciVal Experts Community or DIRECT2Experts options just above the list of search results.

Publications are automatically brought in by Scopus, a journal abstract database powered by Elsevier, on a weekly basis. Scopus has access to a large number of journals but does not capture books or book chapters. If some of your journal publications do not appear it is likely that Scopus does not have access to this journal or the year or issue in which you published. For a full list of the journals and years included in the Scopus data base click here. Any publications and other scholarly works not captured by Scopus can be added manually and fingerprinted through the Profile Enhancer (see directions below).

Occasionally very few or no publications are identified using Scopus. This can mean several things - the faculty member may be publishing in journals not covered by Scopus, this may be a faculty member whose professional accomplishments are focused outside the realm of journal publications, or it may be an administrator within the organization.
To learn more about Scopus and its coverage, please visit the dedicated Scopus overview page. Scopus is continuously looking to expand its coverage across all disciplines and has significantly improved coverage of the arts and humanities since 2009.
We recognize that publications matched through Scopus may represent only a portion of the relevant scholarly accomplishments. Additional content such as books, non-Scopus publications, creative works, etc. may be added through the Northwestern Scholars interface. In the near future, such content will be included in the “fingerprint” of the expert Profile.
If this is a profile you have permission to update, click Edit your profile in the upper right-hand corner of your profile, and add as much or as little content as you would like.

Next to each Scopus publication in Northwestern Scholars you’ll notice a “cited by” number. This number indicates all the citations of this work that appear in other publications covered by Scopus since 1996. Publications prior to 1996 may have citations listed, but these numbers reflect only the number of citations in publications after 1996.

Grants are uploaded automatically to faculty member’s profiles from records provided by the Office for Research and Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. The data from InfoEd include projects with funding received on or after 9/1/2004 and all previous awards within those projects. Only funding from external sources and sponsored research funding, not gifts, are included. Grants received by faculty during their employment at Northwestern are included, beginning with 8/1/1987. Grant data from Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago currently include only active grants; historical data will be added soon. Grant data from other affiliated groups (the Veteran’s Administration) will be added to Northwestern Scholars as the data are received.
In the InfoEd grant data, there are cases where a personnel role appears as the PI in Northwestern Scholars, such as student fellowships where the mentor is listed as the PI. This is consistent with Northwestern policy which does not allow a student to serve as PI. However, the sponsoring agency data (viewable on the agency web site) would have the fellow listed as PI as in the original grant application.
If any of the grant data on your profile are incorrect or grants that you think should be included based on this description are missing from your profile, send the information to fasis@northwestern.edu and the FASIS Team will make the proper inquiries.

Publication data pertaining to an individual faculty member may be downloaded from his/her profile under the Publications link. Select one or more publications and then choose Export to Endnote.

Data pertaining to a larger group of faculty members may be downloaded from the Northwestern Scholars Semantic Web Portal. This portal is a VIVO SPARQL Endpoint. The data are semantic web-compliant with full interoperability to the VIVO initiative. A key to these data is needed to use them with other Northwestern Enterprise data. Please contact the FASIS team for access to this key.
Bulk downloads of the data in Northwestern Scholars are available to each of the dean's offices at Northwestern. Please contact the FASIS team for these downloads.

Each faculty member is indexed by the department of their primary academic appointment and listed on that department’s page. All other appointments are listed in order on the left hand side of the page.

SCOPUS Publications are refreshed on a weekly basis. Grant data and faculty included in Northwestern Scholars are updated quarterly. Publications and additional information added through the Profile Enhancer are saved to the profile in real time and fingerprinted immediately. The easiest way to change your fingerprint is to add or edit your research statement and keywords to reflect what aspects of your research you wish to be best represented on your profile. See below for more information on how to edit your profile.

The full text search is a bit different than concept searching, and has a few features that change as a result. First, the Fingerprint software revises the search results as you adjust the concept weighting on the right side of the screen; this changes the list of publications that support the search results and the resulting list of faculty members. Because the results change, we don’t expand the list of publications – instead the intention is for the user to adjust the weighting on the right side until they feel they’ve found the right person – then open that person’s profile to see the underlying data.

The scholarly accomplishment data in Northwestern Scholars are organized and fingerprinted using six different controlled vocabularies which represent broad subject headings. For more information regarding fingerprinting and controlled vocabularies, see a full explanation on the SciVal site.

You may notice that on some profiles certain fingerprinted terms appear twice. This is because scholarly accomplishments may be fingerprinted by up to seven different controlled vocabularies (see the full profile for any particular faculty member). If there are publications, grants, or other works with the same key term but in different disciplines using a different controlled vocabulary, the term will appear twice on the combined profile. Note that the term may be the same, but different publications may be associated with separate instances of the term.

If the coauthor is in the same home department as the profiled author this department will not show up as an internal organization in the Institutional Network.

Many universities and research institutions nation- and world-wide are using SciVal Experts – you have access to their profiles as well. When viewing the Find the Expert page after searching a concept keyword, you will see similar experts at Northwestern under the internal heading. Click on the Community heading to see similar experts at all institutions using the SciVal Experts profile tool. Click on the National heading to view similar experts at institutions using similar research networking software tools.

If you have inadvertently been left off the list of included faculty (see criteria above), please contact the FASIS team at fasis@northwestern.edu.

Contact the FASIS Team at fasis@northwestern.edu.

In order to create a more representative profile, faculty members may add additional information to their profiles using the profile enhancer. This information may include education, past academic appointments, committee memberships, academic achievements and any publications or scholarly accomplishments not available through Scopus. Once the additional publication data are entered, they are fingerprinted by keywords using the appropriate controlled vocabularies.

Feinberg Faculty member should NOT update their profiles using the Profile Enhancer. Instead, all updates should be made through the Feinberg Faculty Profiles system, accessible here. These profiles will be synced with profiles in Northwestern Scholars on a regular basis. Any information that has been entered in the Northwestern Scholars Profile Enhancer but not in Feinberg Profiles will be lost.

Faculty members may log into the profile enhancer by clicking on the "Edit your profile" button on the top right-hand corner of their page, then by clicking "Update my profile with my own information." The first time you log in, enter your Northwestern email address as shown on your Northwestern Scholars profile and hit 'Forgot Your Password'. A random password will be sent to your email which you can then use to login. (If your email shows as "unavailable" on your Northwestern Scholars profile send an email to fasis@northwestern.edu. You will receive login information by email.) Once you have logged in you can change your password through 'Change Password' in the navigation on the left.

If your profile already has a research statement or research interest keywords entered it was either provided by your School and uploaded automatically, or entered by the Northwestern Scholars Project Team at FASIS based on a research statement on your CV. You can add or change your research statement by logging into the Profile Enhancer and clicking on "Add General Information" and the "Research Interests" tab.

Profiles have been populated with publication data from Scopus and grant data from InfoEd and the Lurie Children’s Hospital and RIC databases. Additional information, scholarly accomplishments, and publications may have been uploaded from School databases or entered directly from your CV by members of the FASIS team.

You may add any relevant academic information to your profile by logging into the profile enhancer (see directions above), selecting the option that most closely fits with what you wish to enter, and filling out the required fields. You may also send a copy of your CV or information you would like displayed on your profile to the FASIS team at fasis@northwestern.edu and we will enter this information for you.

If there is a Scopus publication that you do not want displayed or does not belong to you please click Edit your profile on the top right-hand corner of your profile and select "Provide feedback to the QA team on your publications in Scopus." These requests will be sent directly to Elsevier and the requested publications will be removed promptly. You may also send these requests to the FASIS Team. All Additional Information may be removed or edited from within the Profile Enhancer: select "edit" or "remove" next to the information you would like to change.

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