Researchermap: a tool for visualizing author locations using Google maps

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2013:192:1187.

Abstract

We hereby present ResearcherMap, a tool to visualize locations of authors of scholarly papers. In response to a query, the system returns a map of author locations. To develop the system we first populated a database of author locations, geocoding institution locations for all available institutional affiliation data in our database. The database includes all authors of Medline papers from 1990 to 2012. We conducted a formative heuristic usability evaluation of the system and measured the system's accuracy and performance. The accuracy of finding the accurate address is 97.5% in our system.

MeSH terms

  • Authorship*
  • Computer Graphics
  • Data Mining / methods*
  • Geographic Information Systems*
  • Knowledge Discovery / methods
  • MEDLINE / statistics & numerical data
  • Maps as Topic
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Periodicals as Topic / statistics & numerical data*
  • Search Engine / methods*
  • Software*
  • Spatio-Temporal Analysis
  • User-Computer Interface*