Knowledge Dashboard

Overview

The Knowledge Dashboard, powered by Web of Science, is the premier vertical search tool available today – combining the world renowned data from Web of Science with the powerful Collexis Knowledge Dashboard.

The Dashboard approach is "top-down" – making it easy for researchers to whittle an extensive list of references on a single topic (such as Alzheimer's Disease) down to specific, directly relevant articles. Users can browse and filter literature from some 8 million articles and 9,500 journals back to 1985 by keyword, concept, expert, journal, or location. They can use the Knowledge Dashboard to identify emerging thought leaders, top publication outlets, or research hubs -- as well as track trends and discover emerging concepts and relationships.

“Unlike standard search engines, (Knowledge Dashboards) can help users find documents, search for experts in specific fields, and discover key trends quickly in a variety of targeted topics.”

– Information Today, April 2008

With Knowledge Dashboard, you can:

  • Discover unexpected concept associations that might never emerge via standard search approaches.
  • Create novel hypotheses.
  • Identify potential collaborators and thought leaders, among emerging or established experts.
  • Target work toward publication in top, high impact journals.
  • Discover local collaborators and hubs of research excellence.
  • Pinpoint emerging and declining trends that guide research direction and promote grant acquisition.

Why choose Knowledge Dashboard?

  • Each Knowledge Dashboard is custom-built to a customer’s area of interest for more streamlined searching and relevant results.
  • Provides flexible search and browse options, including MeSH concept, expert, journal, or location, using an intuitive tree-based search paradigm and tab-based interface.
  • Provides proactive suggestions about the direction of research, predicting concept relationships that have not yet appeared in the literature, but which may appear in the future.
  • Users can search by knowledge concept, freeing themselves from the usual search engine paradigm of keyword and author searching.
  • Includes specialized tools that enable targeted searches for experts, top journals, local collaborators and research centers of excellence.
  • Uses a unique trends tool to show how publications on selected topics and relationships have changed over the previous decade.
  • All searches include Web of Science content and functionality such as citation information, full-text linking, and export to bibliographic management systems such as EndNoteWeb and EndNote.
Databases

Investigator Portal: The translational research knowledge base that enables researchers to work efficiently and effectively in clinical environments.

 

BONDplus: Integrating public and proprietary sequence, interaction, and patent databases, BONDplus goes beyond the genome to take full account of all the relevant biological and IP relationships surrounding a molecule of interest.

 

Web of Science®: The world’s leading citation databases cover nearly 9,300 high impact research journals in 256 disciplines.

 

BIOSIS: The BIOSIS research databases  provide you with today’s most current sources of life sciences and biomedical research, with multidisciplinary coverage and specialized indexing.

 

CAB Abstracts®: Covers international research information in agriculture and all related applied life sciences. Produced by CABI Publishing.

 

FSTA – Food Science & Technology Abstracts®:  A definitive food and beverage R&D database, covering pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition. Published by IFIS (International Food Information Service).

 

MEDLINE®: The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier bibliographic database, covering biomedicine and the life sciences, bioengineering, public health, clinical care, and plant and animal science.