About Harvard Catalyst Profiles

A Research Networking and Expertise Discovery Website

What is it?

Why should faculty use Profiles?

Create a dynamic, engaging profile about your research.
Connect with others via social media, web, and video tools.
Showcase your work to potential students and funding agencies.
Add new expertise to your team.
Reveal new directions for your research.
Include your Profiles URL in your NIH biosketch.

Why should everyone else use Profiles?

Scientists can look for new collaborators.
Students can identify potential mentors.
Conference organizers can identify possible speakers.
Administrators can assemble committees.
Companies and organizations can build academic partnerships.
The public can learn about biomedical research at .

Profiles, Networks, and Connections

As you navigate through the website, you will see three types of pages:

Profile Pages - Each person has a Profile Page that includes his or her name, contact information, publications and more. Faculty can edit their own profiles, adding awards, a photo, and other types of content. Click the green Explore buttons on a person's profile to view interactive visualizations of their networks.
Network Pages - Network Pages show the many ways that faculty are connected to each other, such as by being coauthors or researching similar topics. Click the tabs on a Network Page to explore different interactive visualizations, such as timelines or maps of the network.
Connection Pages - Certain Network Pages will include a "Why?" link. These will take you to a Connection Page, which shows why two people that network are connected. For example, the Why link in a co-authorship network lists the publications that two people wrote together. The Connection Pages also reveal why certain people appear higher on search results and why particular concepts are highlighted on a person's profile.

Visualizations

Harvard Catalyst Profiles includes several different ways to view networks, including (from left to right) Concept Clouds, which highlight a person's areas of research; Map Views, which show where a person's co-authors are located; Publication Timelines, which graph the number of publications of different types by year; Radial Network Views, which illustrate clusters of connectivity among related people; and Concept Timelines, which depict how a person's research focus has changed over time. Access these visualizations by clicking the green Explore buttons on profile pages.

Open Source Software

Harvard Catalyst Profiles is powered by the free, open source Profiles Research Networking Software. View the Open Source Software page for more information.