While a prior iteration of Experts at KU existed from about 2017 to 2019, the relaunch of Experts at KU and the availability of Faculty Insight was launched officially to the KU and KU Medical Center faculty in December 2021.

Anyone with an active network account at KU can access Faculty Insight.  However, only matched faculty will have a scholarly profile associated with them. At KUMC, these matches are paid faculty with an appointment of at least 0.75 FTE and at the rank of assistant professor or above.  For faculty in the School of Medicine, we do not include faculty on clinical track appointments. For faculty in the School of Nursing and School of Health Professions, all tenure-track faculty are included, along with other scholarly-intensive faculty. As of December 15, 2024, faculty meeting the above criteria and employed as of October 31, 2024 have been matched.

In general, articles, conference proceedings, books and book chapters, grants, clinical trials, patents, honorific awards, and presentations. Please refer to other sections in this FAQ for more details about the scope.

When you log into Faculty Insight, you will notice Search, My Profile, and Help tabs.  My Profile is a section that shows a timeline of scholarly works, as well as related terms/people, collaborations, and suggested awards and suggested funding.  You can edit basic characteristics of your profile using the drop down by your name in the upper right corner and selecting Edit Profile.  We encourage you to enter a picture, edit your preferred display name, and further down the page, a research summary, research interests, and additional research keywords to further help the system refine and tailor funding and award opportunities associated to your profile. It is important to note that KU Medical Center does not allow users to do any direct editing of the works presented within Faculty Insight. 

Please contact Matt Schuette, director of institutional research & academic analytics, if you have any questions.

No. Faculty Insight, as KU Medical Center uses it, is not a data entry system. However, some of the works shown in Faculty Insight and Experts at KU do come from FACT. These include awards and honors at the state/local/university level, presentations, and other publications.  We do not include extramural and intramural research entered into FACT.

There are three primary sources referred to as AcA, KUMC and Digital Measures in your profile:

1. AcA: Academic Analytics provides data that are essentially publicly available, including articles and conference proceedings from publishers who submit to CrossRef and have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), books and book chapters from Baker & Taylor and The British Library, federal research grants from 14 different agencies, clinical trials from the NIH U.S. National Library of Medicine, patents from patentsview.org and national and international honorific awards from the Academic Analytics database, a repository of 20,000+ awards that come directly from national governing societies.  This information is updated on a nightly basis.
2. KUMC: Enterprise Analytics provides award-level information obtained from KUMC’s Research Administration database detailing extramural funding awards received, including the title, funding amounts, start and end dates and personnel involved on the award in roles such as PI, M-PI, Co-PI, co-investigator, and key person. We currently supply an updated award file once a year, in late November.
3. Digital Measures: Only certain elements are brought over from FACT, namely awards and honors at the state/local/university level, presentations, and other publications. Data from FACT are refreshed at least once a week.

Faculty Insight and Experts at KU are not meant to be a full representation of your curriculum vitae, nor a replacement for FACT and its capabilities.  The data included presents a broad representation of the types of research, publishing activity, and recognitions received, to showcase the large breadth of activity at KU/KUMC, as well as providing enough information for Faculty Insight to provide faculty with relevant tools to their lines of study and interest. If you see an egregious error in the data, or you believe there are significant works missing (within the scope mentioned above), please contact Matt Schuette, director of institutional research & academic analytics.