Designing and implementation of expertise search & hotspot detecting system

Modern scientific researches are facing two kinds of problems: how to select proper research themes, how to get related experts and works. Expert search and hotspot detecting are two methods used broadly to settle these problems. Expert search can help resolving the problems of expertise retrieval, expert evaluation, collaborator choosing and so on in particular research fields, while hotspot detecting is very important for researchers to identify research fronts and promising themes in these fields. We first summarize the present researches in the world of these two issues, and then design an expertise search & hotspot detecting system which can identify experts' and institutions' expertise automatically, and also detect research hotspots and trends dynamically in particular fields. At last, we implement the system with traditional medicine as the selected field.