Fingerprints and Fingerprint visualizations in Research Profiles help users discover the expertise and interests of faculty members and organizational units at the School of Medicine by providing a visual summary of their work. They can be found throughout Research Profiles on faculty profiles as well as profiles for organization units.
Fingerprints and fingerprint visualizations are generated by the Elsevier Fingerprint Engine by mining the unstructured scientific text in Research Profiles using natural language processing to identify concepts or Fingerprints present in the text based on a thesaurus or vocabulary. As of July 2024, Fingerprints and Fingerprint visualizations have been updated to reflect Elsevier’s new OmniScience thesaurus. While visualizations were previously generated using several discipline-specific thesauri and vocabularies, the single OmniScience thesaurus is split into 20 different categories and covers all areas of science.
While there are no changes to how Fingerprints are displayed, the concepts shown will change. This also means that previously excluded concepts could reappear on a person’s aggregated Fingerprint visualization. In these cases, researchers can request to remove concepts by submitting a request through the change request form https://becker.wustl.edu/profiles-update/.
To learn more about Research Profiles, including requesting a customized presentation for your department or group, contact Laura Simon, research support librarian at Becker Library, at profiles@wustl.edu. Additional information about Research Profiles can also be found on the updated Research Profiles support pages.
Related links:
- A Look Inside Fingerprint Visualizations in Research Profiles
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- Help & FAQs
- Request a change to my profile
- Request a profile for a center or institute
- User feedback
Research Profiles is sponsored by the Office of the Dean, Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences (ICTS) and School of Medicine departments.