Briefs

COLLEGE PARK, Md., Dec 02, 2008 (ASCRIBE NEWS via COMTEX) Collexis Holdings, a developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software, announced the formal launch of the Reviewer Finder product, an application which identifies the best reviewers based on their research profile.

By using the proprietary Collexis Fingerprint technology, the company noted, a submitted grant proposal or submitted scientific manuscript is analyzed and the resulting document Fingerprint is compared against more than 1.8 million expert Fingerprints -- simultaneously checking for conflicts of interest based on co-authorship and organizational affiliation.

Collexis said its Reviewer Finder helps grant funding organizations in two ways: first it assists in reducing the time to identify the most qualified reviewers from hours to virtually minutes, secondly it enhances security by identifying reviewers with potential conflicts of interest by instantly analyzing over 30 million relationships between the research community and peer review community. The Reviewer Finder tool is the latest enhancement to the suite of Collexis grant management applications. These services provide funding organizations with sophisticated portfolio analysis tools to assist in identifying gaps and trends and track the success of their funding by an institution, department or researcher.

Read more.