Researchermap: a tool for visualizing author locations using Google maps.
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.
College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA.
Majid
M
Rastegar-Mojarad
Michael E
ME
Bales
Hong
H
Yu
D001319:Authorship; D003196:Computer Graphics; D057225:Data Mining / Q000379:methods*; D040362:Geographic Information Systems; D063369:Knowledge Discovery / Q000379:methods; D016239:MEDLINE / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008377:Maps as Topic; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D010506:Periodicals as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057386:Search Engine / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D062211:Spatio-Temporal Analysis; D014584:User-Computer Interface