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Majid Rastegar-Mojarad¹, Michael E Bales, Hong Yu

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Summary

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ResearcherMap visualizes scholarly author locations on a map, achieving 97.5% address accuracy. This tool aids in understanding global research collaboration and author distribution for scientific papers.

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Bibliometrics
Information Science
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Background:

Understanding the geographic distribution of scholarly authors is crucial for bibliometric analysis and identifying research hubs.
Existing tools for visualizing author locations are limited in scope and accuracy.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce ResearcherMap, a novel system designed to visualize the geographical locations of scholarly paper authors.
To develop and evaluate a system for mapping author locations based on institutional affiliations.

Main Methods:

Populated a database with author locations by geocoding institutional affiliations for Medline papers (1990-2012).
Developed a query-based system that returns a map displaying author locations.
Conducted a formative heuristic usability evaluation to assess system performance and accuracy.

Main Results:

The ResearcherMap system successfully visualizes author locations.
The system demonstrated high accuracy, with a 97.5% success rate in identifying accurate author addresses.
Usability evaluation provided insights into system performance.

Conclusions:

ResearcherMap offers an accurate and effective method for visualizing scholarly author locations.
The tool has potential applications in bibliometrics, research network analysis, and understanding global scientific output.