Dev toolsacademiaresearchvisualization

Academic contribution tracker

Build tools to help researchers quantify and visualize their cross-disciplinary impact.

Why now

Modern research spans many papers and collaborations that current metrics don't capture.

Who for
Academic researchers
Business model
Institutional SaaS
Effort
A few months

Researchers struggle to demonstrate the breadth of their contributions across papers, fields, and teams.

Create visualization tools that map citation networks, co-author relationships, and interdisciplinary impact beyond simple citation counts.

Sell institutional licenses to universities and research labs.

MVP: Basic import from ORCID/Google Scholar with simple visualizations. Expand to advanced analytics.

Risk: Established metrics like h-index dominate evaluation despite limitations.

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