Researcher Mapping

AuthorMapper.com is a search engine for peer-reviewed research publications, with an overlay of geospatial data. Repositories include Springer-Verlag (Springer Science+Business may be the latest official name), PubMed and BioMed Central. Springer is the developer of Author Mapper.

Perhaps the most impressive feature to me was the historical time span covered. For example, I found three of my father's research publications, one of which was written the year of his graduation from medical school, a very long time ago.

Author: Kesselman, Russell H. || Courtesy of Author Mapper by Springer Publishing

A mathematical study of organism growth as an approach to the cancer problem[1]

The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics (1948) 10: 69-83, June 01, 1948

by Kesselman, Russell H.

Tissue growth and cancer[2]

The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics (1949) 11: 115-138, June 01, 1949

by Kesselman, Russell H.

The physical rationale of ballistocardiography

The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics (1957) 19: 247-255, December 01, 1957

by Kesselman, Russell H. and Grishman, Arthur.

Words from the not wise

I miss my father so much. I wish I could tell him how wonderful and brilliant he was. But he's gone from this world. Why didn't I do these things when he was alive? Don't make the same mistakes I did. Tell your parents how much you love and respect them while you can. Do it now.

Afterward

I found more of my father's research that I didn't even know about. I gathered up everything I could find. It was so many years back. I searched using Google Scholar, which returned the largest set of results from a single query. Then I made a collection, "Pere" from NCBI on the National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine website.

[1] Abstract: A mathematical expression is described giving the growth rate of a tissue region as a function of the determining biological factors. It is observed that within the limitations of prediction of this expression, a change of growth to the neoplastic type can be expected under certain conditions of the variables. The growth equations used here are different from others usually mentioned in that they attend to both the positive and the negative growth phases occurring in the course of organism development. The expression derived enables the prediction of an increase in incidence of cancer with age, predicts a decrease in the rate of tumor growth with increasing age, and permits an hypothesis to be made as to the nature of the action of carcinogenic agencies.

[2] Abstract: Food and metabolic waste products, insofar as they act upon the hereditary substrate of cells, are the most important factors governing tissue growth. Equations describing the growth of tissues are derived in consideration of this fact. A quantity is found in these equations which, if slightly changed, results in very great changes in the growth rate of the tissue, where such very great changes are interpretable as neoplastic growth. The relationship between our equations and similar equations which others have proposed is discussed.

Cool, no?

Follow-up

It appears that this isn't a new offering from Springer publishing. @SciLab of Canada (Richard Altman, I believe), left a few comments on the original AuthorMapper blog entry, dated January 2009, as well as his own test embed in a similar vintage post on his website. The only notable change in the interim has been the addition of PubMed and BioMed Central as a source from which to pull journals references, as far as I can tell.