The Players pane allows to access to the profile of the experts and organizations which focus research on your Research topic. The Players pane includes the following lists:

• People
• Academics
• Companies
• Start-ups

To access the list of experts, companies, starts up or academics working on your Research topic, click on the appropriate list in the Players pane. 

People

The list of people includes the persons who have published/co-published scientific document(s) or filed/co-filed patent(s) or who have participated to clinical trial or collaborative projets and grants related to your search.

People are ordered by default by relevance.

The relevancy of a person is mainly based on the following indicators :

• Number of published documents (all types of documents) 
• Sum of the scores of his documents (all types) 
• Centrality in the query network : the centrality is an indicator based on the number and distance of connections of a node in a network. 
• Diversity of scientific works (number of different types) 

Academics

The list of academics includes universities and academics institutes that have published scientific document(s) or filed patent(s) or participated to project(s) or clinical trial(s) or communicated on topics related to your search.

Academics are ordered by default by relevance.

 The relevancy of an academic is mainly based on the following indicators :

• Number of published documents (all types of documents) 
• Sum of the scores of its documents (all types) 
• Centrality in the query network : the centrality is an indicator based on the number and distance of connections of a node in a network. 
• Diversity of scientific works (number of different types) 
• Sum of the scores of the academic web pages 

Companies

The list of companies includes companies that have published scientific document(s) or filed patent(s) or participated to project(s) or clinical trial(s) or communicated on topics  related to your search.

Companies are ordered by default by relevance.  

The relevancy of a company is mainly based on the following indicators:

• Number of published documents (all types of documents) 
• Sum of the scores of its documents (all types) 
• Centrality in the query network : the centrality is an indicator based on the number and distance of connections of a node in a network. 
• Diversity of scientific works (number of different types) 
• Sum of the scores of the company web pages 

Start-ups

The list of starts up includes starts ups and SMEs that have published scientific document(s) or filed patent(s) or participated to project(s) or clinical trial(s) or communicated on topics  related to your search.

 Start-ups are defined by the number of employees below 250.

 Starts ups are ordered by default by relevance. The relevancy of a start up is mainly based on the following indicators:

• Number of published documents (all types of documents) 
• Sum of the scores of its documents (all types) 
• Centrality in the query network : the centrality is an indicator based on the number and distance of connections of a node in a network. 
• Diversity of scientific works (number of different types) 
• Sum of the scores of the start up web pages