Research with Princeton is a public, searchable database found at collaborate.princeton.edu, designed to foster research collaborations with Princeton University scholars. We hope this tool can spur discovery and innovation by helping to connect researchers across disciplines, institutions and sectors. We also hope this tool will make Princeton researchers and their work more visible to the public and media. 

You can use Research With Princeton to:

• Review the profiles, projects and publications of hundreds of Princeton faculty in the STEM and policy disciplines
• Discover the expertise of Princeton's departments, institutes, and centers
• Find out about Princeton research facilities available to external collaborators
• View the global collaboration networks of Princeton researchers
• Search by keyword
• Enter a block of text into the search box and find researchers with related work
• See a researcher's recent publications, and view article metrics from PlumX, such as citations, news mentions or Mendeley readers

Research With Princeton is part of a larger project, ResearchWithNJ.com, sponsored by the State of New Jersey to showcase academic research.

Learn more about ResearchwithNJ.

Anyone is welcome to explore Research with Princeton. More likely users include industry, entrepreneurs, students, media, and researchers at other institutions looking to learn more about Princeton researchers and their work.

Research With Princeton is powered by Pure, an enterprise research management solution that can aggregate an organization's research information. Pure can connect and group multiple forms of data, including publications information found in Elsevier’s Scopus database. Pure is a product built and maintained by Elsevier, a global information analytics company. The State of NJ selected Pure as the platform for the “Research With” project.

Research With Princeton allows users to search in several ways.

Search by Person

First, one can search for experts under the “Profiles” tab. Profile outputs provide basic information about an expert, such as the universities and institutions they are affiliated with, as well as the disciplines and sub-disciplines within their expertise. The "fingerprint" of disciplines and sub-disciplines is based on mining the text of a scholar's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms. The “donut” icons next to each fingerprint reveal the weighted rank of each subject across the expert’s publications. You can also scroll down to the “network” section of the page to see how an expert is connected to other researchers. (You can also see this information under the “Network” tab on each profile.) The visual network display reveals the extent to which research collaboration has occurred across disciplines and regions of the world. At the bottom of the page, a list of the selected expert’s publications (referred to as “Research Outputs”) appears, which in turn (via click) leads to individual abstracts.

Search by University

A second way to search the database is by “Research Units,” which refers to Princeton’s departments, institutes, and centers. By clicking on a specific research unit, one is able to use the top header row tabs to see an overview of the expert profiles, research output (publications), and fingerprint associated with that research unit.

Search by Publications

A third way to search the database is by “Research Output.” This allows users to search for a range of publications by keywords, phrases, concepts, free text, and various filters. Users will be able to further evaluate their search results by reviewing the weights under each fingerprint associated with a particular Research Output.

For more information or assistance with Research With Princeton, contact [email protected]. Princeton’s Office of Corporate Engagement and Foundation Relations, within the Office of the Dean for Research, leads Research With Princeton.

At this time, there is no self-serve access to change profile information. Please email [email protected] and we will be happy to work with you!

To be included automatically in your profile, a publication must be visible in Scopus. From the time a publication becomes visible in Scopus, it may take up to 2-4 weeks before the publication shows up in a profile. Occasionally a journal is not covered by Scopus.  Please email us at [email protected] for assistance.

The tags are determined by Elsevier’s Fingerprint Engine. Elsevier provides the Pure platform to power this project. A fingerprint is based on mining the text of a scholar's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms.

ResearchWith.Princeton.edu is a publicly available website, designed to make your research more visible to potential collaborators.

Publication information from Elsevier’s Scopus database is updated weekly and automatically via a data import, as is much of the basic information provided by Princeton University. Major updates to the profiles are done manually three times per year by the Profile Refinement Service.

Princeton faculty may be able to feed profile data to their Princeton website using the Web API. Contact us at [email protected] and we’ll be happy to work with you!