Dimensions and Michigan Research Experts (MRE)
- Dimensions: Find experts across the world. The researcher's institution must subscribe to Dimensions and the researchers must have at least two documents associated with them in order for them to appear.
- Michigan Experts: Michigan Experts is the UM Ann Arbor specific version of Dimensions. Currently, it doesn't contain researchers from all Schools and Colleges but all COE and Michigan Medicine researchers are included. Eventually more UM Ann Arbor researchers will be added.
How to locate experts in Dimensions and MRE: Since MRE and Dimensions use the same platform, you can search them in the same ways:
- You can search by keyword, researcher name, DOI, or ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID).
- You can also paste in your abstract, to see prior research that is most closely related to your own. To paste in your abstract, click Abstract Search (lower right corner of the search box) after clicking in the search box.
- In MRE, by default, your search results will show UM experts. In Dimensions, by default, your search results will show Publications. You can change which search results you're viewing by clicking on the different information types (publication, patents, etc.) under the search box.
Pivot
- Pivot is commonly used to search for funding opportunities but, using the Profiles tab on the homepage, you can also search for researchers across the world. A researcher's profile contains their publications and awarded grants.
- You can also search Pivot for funding opportunities (see more details on the Finding Funding Agencies in Your Area tab).
How to locate experts in Pivot
- Navigate to the Profiles tab on the Pivot homepage
- You can search by topic, researcher name or institution in the search box
- You can also browse UM researchers based on their school or department
- Note: researchers must have a personal account in Pivot (usually accessed through an institutional subscription to Pivot) in order to appear in the search results. Learn more about searching Pivot Profiles in this video.
SciVal
- SciVal is an analytics tool from Elsevier that allows you to search for experts across the world plus much more (a summary of its capabilities can be found here). SciVal uses author and publication data from the database Scopus, which has broad coverage of all engineering disciplines.
- To access SciVal, you will need to create a personal account with Elsevier using your UM email address. If you have already created an account with Elsevier on one of their other platforms (Mendeley, SciencedDirect, ClinicalKey, etc), you will use that same login to access SciVal.
- Note: this is a one year trial of this tool (through early 2021).
How to locate experts in SciVal
- From the SciVal homepage, click on 'Collaboration' on the top toolbar. Make sure that University of Michigan Ann Arbor is selected under 'Institutions and Groups' on the left panel.
- The Current collaboration tab allows you to explore existing partnerships at UM Ann Arbor, while the Potential collaboration tab allows you to see institutions and researchers who haven't collaborated with UM Ann Arbor (ie any data from Scopus that isn't listed the Current collaborations tab).
- There are many filters to help you narrow your search, such as subject area, geographic location, sector and author name. Subject area will probably be the most important filter to use.
- You can view results as a map or a table. In the table view, you can sort by various metrics. Field-weighted citation impact (the ratio of citations received relative to the expected world average for the subject field, publication type and publication year) is the default.