Scholar Profile Related Terms and People (Research Insight)

Scholar Profile Related Terms and People (Research Insight)

The Related Terms and People tab presents three views: Topics, Related Terms, and Similar Scholars. 

The Topics view is a visualization of research areas showing Domains, Fields, Sub-Fields, and Topics identified within the scholar's articles and conference proceedings by a Large Language Model (LLM) AI system. 

The paths in this tree view start on the left at the scholar, then move right to the highest level, Domains (e.g. "Health Sciences", "Physical Sciences"). Domains are broken down into Fields (e.g. "Medicine", "Earth and Planetary Sciences"). Fields are further broken down into Sub-Fields (e.g. "Infectious Diseases", "Geophysics"). Finally, Sub-Fields are comprised of specific research Topics (e.g. "Coronavirus Disease 2019", "Study of Earthquake Precursor Phenomena"). 

The primary topic path, as identified by analysis of the LLM output, is highlighted with both a darker path line and different node color. In the example above, the primary topic path from Domain to Topic is "Physical Sciences" > "Engineering" > "Electrical and Electronic Engineering" > "Free-Electron Laser Technology".

Above the tree is a slider that can adjust the underlying data across three set points. The rightmost, default setting is "Fewer Topics, More Relevance", which shows only the highest scoring topics for the scholar. The lowest setting on the left, "More Topics, Less Relevance", can show more topic areas using a lower scoring threshold. The topic leaf titles also contain a number in parentheses, which is the number of works by the scholar that have been tagged to that topic given the slider setting. Adjusting the slider may not result in any changes to the underlying data, as this depends on numerous factors including the volume of works by the scholar and their association to any additional topics at lower scoring thresholds.

Any node in the tree, except the root node showing the scholar's name, can be clicked to bring up a view containing more detail about the topic.

The Works tab shows the scholar's works that have been tagged to the Domain, Field, Sub-Field, or Topic whose node was clicked. A Domain, Field, or Sub-Field may contain more works than appear across all paths rooted at that node; this would indicate that works were identified for the selected area that met the desired threshold, but did not meet that threshold for more specific areas further along the path. The slider to adjust underlying data is also present within this detail view, but note that it is not tied to the slider on the topic tree.

The Keywords tab displays a word cloud which contains terms and phrases corresponding to the selected Domain, Field, Sub-Field, or Topic that were identified in the scholar's works.

Below Topics is the Related Terms word cloud. This word cloud contains the top keywords identified within the entire body of the scholar's works as determined by a Natural Language Processing (NLP) AI system. Within the Related Terms header is a dropdown with options for "All Works" and "Recent Works". The former will display keywords mined across all of the scholar's works, while the latter will display keywords from works within the last 5 years.

Clicking on one or more keywords with highlight those keywords in the graphic, as well as highlight scholars in Similar Scholars who have also used those terms.

The Similar Scholars view presents a listing of other scholars working in the same area of inquiry as identified by the NLP system. This section has the same dropdown for "All Works" and "Recent Works" (the two dropdowns are tied together) as well as additional filtering to refine the universe of potential similar scholars.

The additional filtering options allow limiting to alumni, limiting to specific faculty ranks, excluding collaborators, limiting to scholars affiliated with the same fields of study, and restricting to scholars affiliated with specific institutions either by category (e.g. AAU, Sector, MSI) or name. 

After making filter selections, clicking "Apply" will refresh the listing according to the selected filter options. Clicking "Reset" will restore both the filters and the listing to their default states.