
Using algorithms to link-up researchers
05 August 2013
by Peter O’Donnell
The European country with the highest number of international research connections is the United Kingdom.
Scientists are developing algorithms that can connect researchers across the world who have similar interests by scanning the content of academic papers.
Researchers at TEAM, an EU-funded project, are using algorithms to quantify the extent to which scientific papers cover similar ground, and are looking at ways to profile scientists by the documents they have searched for. They are also developing technology that can facilitate searches of research papers.
The goal of the project, based at Graz University...