Researchers in companies and public institutions usually publish their findings in specialist journals. It can be important for some companies to know which of their employees are involved in a publication. We conduct this systematic tracking of authors (publication tracking) on behalf of a pharmaceutical company.
Project duration: ongoing
We already maintain a literature database for this customer, which contains a wealth of information. In addition, we have now been tasked with identifying all authors of research articles in this database who are also employees of our customer.
Research is teamwork, and scientific articles usually have a main author (corresponding author) and often a number of other authors. Our database only contains the names of the first six authors and their work addresses; other authors are conventionally indicated by the abbreviation et al. (‘and others’). We therefore check all authors and their work addresses for each article and identify and mark employees of the company in question.
The supplemented data can be linked to other databases in XML format at our client’s premises and provide them with further information, such as the so-called impact (‘how often is the article cited?’) or key opinion leaders in a particular field (Newsletter 2016). A broad-based data set, minimal additional effort, usable for various target systems – this is how this project can be summarised.