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Northwestern Scholars

What Is Northwestern Scholars?

Northwestern Scholars is a searchable database of profiles of Northwestern University faculty, containing information about their academic appointments, publications, grants, patents, and additional scholarly accomplishments and affiliations (e.g., with graduate programs). It spans all disciplines at Northwestern.

Profiles, including "scholarly fingerprints" with research concepts of each faculty member, are generated from a mining of publication text, abstracts, funding awards, project summaries, patents, and other sources. Northwestern Scholars allows you to see faculty research areas, and their collaborations with co-authors and co-investigators, research networks, and similarities of expertise with other faculty. Profiles of core facilities are also included.

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Northwestern Scholars Database

Wow, this thing is totally amazing! I'm excited for it to get fully up to speed (capturing more journals, etc.). It's a remarkable piece of software...”

Eli Finkel
Professor, Psychology
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

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Graduate program memberships for faculty

  • Graduate program directors can record and store the names of faculty members affiliated with their PhD and MFA graduate programs in the central myHR system, which is used by Northwestern Scholars
  • Graduate program affiliations appear in a faculty member's Northwestern Scholars profile
  • Each PhD and MFA graduate program's faculty listing is available via searching for the graduate program or browsing for it on the Northwestern Scholars Organizations page

University Research Institutes and Centers (URIC) appointments and memberships for faculty

  • Academic and administrative appointments in URICs are recorded in the central myHR system, which is used by Northwestern Scholars. The names of faculty members with other type of affiliations in these organizations, i.e. memberships, are submitted to Northwestern Scholars by URIC directors
  • URIC appointments and memberships appear in a faculty member's Northwestern Scholars profile
  • Each URIC's faculty listing is available via searching for the organization or browsing for it on the Northwestern Scholars Organizations page

Research Output Reporting

  • Northwestern Scholars operates on a technology platform called "Pure", which includes a reporting function, which currently has limited access. Schools and central units that want to explore gaining access should contact Northwestern Scholars support at nuscholars@northwestern.edu.

We are eager to fully take advantage of NU Scholars in the service of our efforts to create this "NU Based early developmental science community". This seems like a great opportunity to build in this integration from the ground up!”

Lauren S. Wakschlag
Professor, Medical Social Sciences
Feinberg School of Medicine