We’ve been busy in the last couple of months, with the result that many improvements and new functionality have been added to ResearchScorecard.

First, a login is NO LONGER NECESSARY for most reports. However, you’ll still need to login for making purchases and accessing certain kinds of information, such as a viewing researcher’s grants awarded within the last six months.

Second, a boatload of new functionality has been introduced:

1.  Product Usage report. This report, unique to ResearchScorecard, enables a quantitative analysis of trademarked products used by academic bioresearchers, as reported in the scientific literature. I’ll be writing more on that nifty tool in a later blog entry. Try it here.
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3.  BuddyGrant notifications. We’re very proud of this one! As the name implies, this tool notifies registrants of grants newly awarded to one’s collaborators. As far as we know, this is also a ResearchScorecard exclusive [more].
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5.  Collaborator Network report. This new (well, kind of new) report displays the collaborators of a researcher as known to ResearchScorecard. Remember, we don’t cover all institutions and all time periods, so yes, we are missing some collaborators. This functionality is also available via the Researcher Profile report, but we figured it made sense to make it available on its own as well. Try it here.
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7.  Custom reports. We’ve been generating all sorts of nifty custom reports for Life Sciences vendors interested in developing better sales leads and improving their market awareness. This is another topic I’ll be writing about shortly.