Real researchers who
already know your work.
Expert Finder searches the researchers who cited your work, deterministically excludes co-authors and shared-institution researchers, and ranks who's left by citing engagement — real candidates for an independent support letter, not a cold-call list.
What gets verified.
Independence is checked, not assumed.
Self-citations, shared authorship with the petitioner, and same-current-institution researchers are excluded deterministically — what's left has a real, checkable basis for independence.
Ranked by real citing engagement.
Candidates are ranked by how many of your works they actually cited, then by their own publication record — real institution, real h-index, real citing-work count.
One click into Expert Letter Studio.
A candidate's "Start letter" button flows straight into Expert Letter Studio with their independence basis attached — no dead-end contact list to work from alone.
A cold-call list of "experts" wastes everyone's time.
A co-author isn't an independent witness.
Recommending a frequent collaborator as an "independent" expert is exactly the kind of shortcut that invites scrutiny.
Manually checking every citing author's history doesn't scale.
Verifying that a candidate never co-authored with you or shared your institution means digging through publication records one name at a time.
A list of names isn't a plan.
Finding a candidate is only half the problem — without a drafting starting point, the list just sits there.
Why a chatbot can't find you an independent expert.
A plausible-sounding name is not the same as a checked one.
It has no real citation graph to search.
General-purpose AI doesn't have access to a live, queryable record of who actually cited your specific work — it can only guess at plausible-sounding names.
It can't run a real independence check.
Determining co-authorship and shared-institution overlap requires structured data lookups, not a language model's best guess.
It stops at a name, not a next step.
Even a correct name is just a dead end without a drafting starting point that carries the independence basis forward.
Real citations. Checked independence. One click to draft.
How a search runs.
Your author record is matched.
Your name or ORCID is matched to your real publication and citation record.
Independence is checked automatically.
Self-citations, co-authors on your 25 most-cited works, and same-current-institution researchers are excluded deterministically.
Remaining candidates are ranked.
By citing engagement first, then their own publication record — real institution, real h-index.
Start a letter in one click.
Start letter opens Expert Letter Studio with the expert's name and record already filled in.
INDEPENDENCE, CHECKED NOT ASSUMED
Real researchers,
ranked by engagement.
A search over who cited your work deterministically excludes co-authors and shared-institution researchers first. What's ranked afterward is only the independent citations left standing.
Find who already knows your work.
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