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Expertise Knowledge Platform Job Aid
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Natalie M. Oppenheimer, Clinical Research Program Manager II
In this video, I'm going to show you how to use the Expertise Knowledge Platform, also known as EKP, to quickly and objectively identify individuals at CHOP with specific research expertise.
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This is the EKP portal. EKP is a CHOP Research Institute application accessible through CHOP's network or VPN. To get started, log in with your CHOP username and password.
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We are now in EKP's homepage where you can build a search query. Across the top of each page of EKP, you will see a Home button that brings you back to this main page, an FAQs button that opens a new tab of frequently asked questions about EKP including tips for searching, a Report an Issue button that you can use to open a ServiceNow ticket—you can also call the IS Helpdesk—and a Log Out button to log out.
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EKP pulls and links data from external sources like PubMed and NIH Reporter with internal data sources such as CHOP's employee database and eSPA. Regular automated updates help to maintain EKP as an up-to-date, searchable database. EKP can be queried through two types of searches: Find Expert by Keywords and Find Works of Specific Experts. This video will demonstrate how to use the Find Expert by Keywords search function.
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Find Expert by Keywords allows you to find subject matter experts, potential collaborators, mentors, reviewers, and more based on a keyword search of grants and publications customized by you.
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Let's run a sample search. Suppose I want to find all the assistant professors at CHOP who studied traumatic brain injury in the past two years. I'll create a query by entering my search term into the Keywords box. In this case, I'll start by typing "Concussion" and click Add.
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The Add with AND, OR, and NOT drop downs allow you to build out your search like you might in PubMed. You can expand or restrict your search by stringing terms together. To make this search more comprehensive, I'll type "Traumatic Brain Injury" in quotes to capture that this is a concept rather than three separate terms, and select Add with OR to add this to my query.
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On the left, you'll see a drop-down box labeled Search Fields. You can select the fields in which you want the search terms to appear in a paper or grants title, abstract, key terms, or all of the above. EKPs default is to search across all of these fields, so I'll leave this as is for now.
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By default, EKP will search for results from the past five years, but you can adjust the date range as needed, going back as far as 1985. For this query, I'll set the date range to look at grants and publications from the past two years.
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As you build your query, you can see what it looks like in the query box. You can edit your search directly in the query box if you prefer. You can clear your query and start over at any time by hitting the Clear Query button. When you hit the Search button, EKP will search for PubMed publications, NIH grants, and eSPA awards that contain your query keywords in the fields you selected and have a CHOP affiliated author or investigator.
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If you want to modify your query at any point, click the Home button on EKP's top bar.
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In 30 seconds or less, EKP provides a comprehensive, data-driven list of results. In this summary tab, I can see information about potential experts at CHOP, including their name, e-mail address, and job titles. I can also see a bit about their research output in the last two years, such as the number of publications and grants related to my query, authorship details, and total number of publications and grants during this time frame.
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Let's dive a little deeper. The Publication View tab provides more details about the publications related to my query, such as the PubMed Abstract Impact Factor, date of publication, and a hyperlinked PMID that will open the publication in a new tab when clicked. EKP's Publication View and NIH Grants View also have a column called Type of Match, which tells you whether the publication or grant is a full match, meaning EKP mapped it to the employee with high confidence using multiple fields of data, or a partial match, meaning EKP mapped it to the employee based on only some fields.
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Next, let's look at the NIH Grants tab. Here I see information about the NIH grants awarded to CHOP that are related to my query. Details include project number, title, activity code, and project terms when available.
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Finally, let's review the eSPA Awards View. This tab includes information about funded projects in CHOP's eSPA database, including those from funders outside the NIH. You can find details like the project title and grant type, project start and end dates, and stated goals when available.
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Now that our results are loaded, I can do some filtering with an EKP. When I press the Filter Table button, I'm able to filter any of the columns we see here for this search. I know I want to identify just the assistant professors, so I'm going to use the "Rank" filter to limit the results. Once the filter is applied, you can see that the number of people has gotten smaller. If I want to simplify my view, I can also hide some of the columns I'm not as interested in for this search.
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Now I can download these final filtered results as a CSV for offline reference. I can also download the results from any of EKP's other results tabs.
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Finally, the Data Sources tab shows both the query and the data sources used by EKP to generate these results. EKP's Find Expert by Keyword search utilizes the CHOP employee database, PubMed, NIH Reporter, eSPA, and the RIS Impact Factor database. Their respective update dates are listed here. If your topic of interest is likely published in journals not indexed by PubMed, additional research beyond EKP may be needed.
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Future versions of EKP will integrate additional data sources and functionality, but for now, results are just meant to be a jumping-off point to get you started. We hope you found this tutorial helpful. Please check out the FAQs on EKP's Research Institute web page for more tips and tricks. Happy searching.