Research Collaborator Finder
Most co-author lists stop at the same handful of names. Upload your paper and get researchers whose published work sits close to yours, each with a short reason you can judge for yourself.
Find researchers working close to your topic
Upload a paper or a project write-up. We read what it is about, then shortlist researchers whose published work sits close to it, with a short reason for each. PDF or Word.
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Why researchers look outside their own circle
A research collaborator finder suggests researchers whose published work overlaps with your own, so you can widen the circle you write papers with. Most people do not go looking until something forces them to. A call requires a partner in a second country, a reviewer says the analysis needs a method nobody in the group has run, a letter of support is due in three weeks. At that point the usual route, which is to ask the people you already work with, has already been used up.
The circle is narrower than it feels. Co-authorship networks are strongly clustered: the people you publish with tend to publish with each other, and the same names come back paper after paper. That is comfortable and it is fast, but it also means the reviewers who eventually read your work often sit outside the network entirely. Widening it starts with reading, specifically with reading who has published on the exact problem you are stuck on in the last three or four years, rather than who is famous in the field.
What makes a good collaborator match
Works on your actual problem
Brings something you do not have
Not already a co-author
Currently active
An institution that can sign
A realistic first ask
How the collaborator shortlist is built
The shortlist is built from your own document rather than from a topic you type, so every name arrives with the overlap that put it there. What it cannot tell you is whether that person wants to work with you, which is the part you have to find out yourself.
Upload your PDF or Word file
A paper, a draft or a project write-up. No account and no payment. A free usage limit is tied to your email address.
We extract the topic and methods
The match runs on what the document claims and how it was done, not on a keyword you typed.
We match against OpenAlex
Candidates come from OpenAlex, an open catalogue of more than 300 million scholarly works. Only public bibliographic records are used.
You get a shortlist with reasoning
Each name carries its affiliation and a short note on the overlap with your work, so you can decide who is worth reading further.
You do the reading and the asking
Check recent papers and the group page before you write, and check eligibility if a funder is involved. We never contact anyone, and being on the list says nothing about whether someone is free or interested.
Collaborator finder questions
Through people they already know: former supervisors, lab mates, someone met at a conference, a co-author of a co-author. That works until a call asks for a partner in another country or another discipline, at which point the usual circle runs out. The alternatives are reading the literature systematically, asking your network for a referral, and looking at who has recently published on the exact problem you are stuck on.