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PubMed Collaborators

Paste a list of PMIDs, point it at a public NCBI My Bibliography link, or search by author (with a lookback window) to build the co-author list for an NIH/NSF conflict-of-interest table — every co-author on those papers, each one's most recent affiliation and the last paper you shared. The query runs against NCBI E-utilities straight from your browser; no file leaves your machine.

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Co-authors

Collaborator Most recent affiliation Last co-authored Co-pubs

This builds the co-author portion of a COA disclosure — the part that is most tedious by hand. It does not cover co-editors, co-PIs, or graduate advisors/advisees, and it only sees work indexed in PubMed. Names are grouped by last name + initials, so two different people who share both may be merged and one person who published under different initials may be split — skim the list before you submit it. Affiliation and date come from the most recent shared paper. Data: NCBI E-utilities; PubMed coverage is biomedical-leaning and dates are publication dates. Fetched papers are cached in your browser (IndexedDB) and reused on later runs — clear it from the Advanced panel.

NSF COA (.xlsx) fills Table 4 of the official NSF Collaborators & Other Affiliations template; DOE Collaborators (.xlsx) fills the Collaborators sheet of the DOE Office of Science template (relationship = “co-author”, the PI taken from the author box). Both are starting points — fill the remaining tables/columns (institutions, the other relationship types) and verify before submitting; NSF requires the unaltered template format. The heatmap shows, for the ten most frequent co-authors, how many papers you shared each quarter (hover a square for the count); quarters need a month in the PubMed date, so year-only papers are omitted from it.