Track your research group’s publications and NIH grants, automatically
One accurate, always-current record of everything your lab, department or center publishes and is funded for — built from PubMed and NIH RePORTER, and ready the next time someone asks for a report.
How it works
Click through each step to see exactly what you get when you sign up.
Choose what you want to track
Decide what to track: publications by specific authors or institutions, papers matching certain keywords, or a manually curated set.
Add the authors to track
To track specific authors, give us the list — your group members, for example. Import an Excel spreadsheet or enter them by hand.
Your always-up-to-date publication list
An instant, always-current list of every relevant publication — authors highlighted, impact factors shown, and flexible tags throughout. Search, sort, and filter in a click.
Analytics on a beautiful, interactive dashboard
Every important stat updates instantly on one interactive dashboard — impact factor, top journals, citations, and collaboration breakdowns.
Accuracy you can trust
Every match is verified by AI-driven data checks. For total certainty, invite researchers to confirm their own publications with a free account.
Every member’s NIH grants, always current
We automatically keep the NIH grants of all your group members up to date — budgets, project numbers, and dates included — collected in one place.
Flexible automatic tagging
Tag publications automatically by whatever structure you use — College, Department, or Program — and auto-classify collaborations as Intra, Inter, or External. Reporting and filtering become effortless.
Custom publication statuses
Configure custom statuses like Open, In Review, Confirmed, and Not Relevant, so you can focus on the publications that matter most.
Review together and agree before it’s final
Review a publication’s status together — require two or more reviewers to agree before it’s final. No more emailing spreadsheets back and forth.
Comments keep everyone in the loop
Add comments to any publication so everyone in your group stays in the loop.
From a single lab to a whole department.
A lab publication list nobody has to maintain
Add your members once. Every new paper by anyone in the lab lands on the list, with their names highlighted — no chasing students and postdocs for citations.
Output across every member, in one place
Track dozens of faculty at once, with impact factors, top journals, citations and collaboration on one dashboard, and every member’s NIH grants alongside.
Reports that are right the first time
Tag, filter and export the record for an annual report, an external review or a grant renewal — and invite researchers to confirm their own publications so the list is agreed before it goes out.
For every time someone asks “what has the group produced?”
Report without the fire drill
Produce an accurate, agreed list of your unit’s output on demand — not after three weeks of email.
Renew a center grant calmly
Pull every relevant publication and award across the team into one defensible portfolio.
Bring a new member up to speed
Their back catalogue and grants populate the shared view the day they’re added.
Frequently asked questions
How do you find our group’s publications?
You give us your members’ names and affiliations. We search all of PubMed for their work and give every match a confidence score, drawing on name, affiliation and — where a paper carries one — ORCID iD. New publications are picked up automatically as PubMed indexes them.
What happens when two researchers share a name?
That is what the confidence score is for: a match on name alone scores lower than one corroborated by affiliation. You can review matches before they count, and you can invite each researcher to confirm their own publications with a free account, so the final list is one they have agreed to.
How do we add our members?
Import a spreadsheet — Excel or CSV — or enter members by hand. If a file has problems, such as missing fields or duplicate rows, you can fix them in the import dialog instead of editing the file and starting over.
Does it track NIH grants too?
Yes. Every member’s NIH grants are kept current from NIH RePORTER — project numbers, budgets and dates included — and collected in one place alongside the group’s publications.
Can we export the record for a report?
Yes. Narrow the list by tag or publication status, then export it as a CSV, an Excel workbook or a formatted Word document.
What does it cost?
Nothing right now. MyResearchFocus is in public beta, and there is nothing to pay — no credit card and no trial clock. If pricing is introduced after the beta, you will get plenty of notice first.
Give your team one source of truth.
Stand up an accurate, auditable record of your group’s output — ready the next time someone asks for a report.
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