Research support

Generate your NSF-style collaborators list.

Enter your ORCID iD and a few details. This tool pulls your publications from ORCID, fetches full author lists from CrossRef, and optionally searches additional databases (OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, NIH Reporter, NSF Awards, DataCite) to produce a downloadable Excel file with one row per unique co-author or collaborator over the reporting window.

Note: This tool is a starting point, not a finished product. Results depend on the completeness of metadata in each source. Always review and supplement the generated spreadsheet before submission.

Principal Investigator

You. These values fill the PI columns of every row.

Last (Family) name

First (Given) name

ORCID iD 16 digits, dashed. Don't have one?

Email (optional) Sent as mailto to CrossRef — gets you out of low-priority rate-limit buckets.

Window & output

NSF's default window is 48 months. Adjust if your agency requires something else.

Window (months)

Output filename

Data sources (optional)

Select additional databases to search. ORCID + CrossRef are always included.

OpenAlex Publications & affiliations Semantic Scholar Publications & affiliations PubMed / NCBI Biomedical literature NIH Reporter Grant co-investigators NSF Awards Grant co-investigators DataCite Dataset co-creators

Additional sources may increase build time by 30–60 seconds.

Permanent people (optional)

People who always appear in your COA, regardless of whether they show up in recent publications — PhD advisors, advisees, long-term collaborators.

About missing data and limitations

CrossRef metadata is only as good as what publishers submit. Co-authors without an ORCID iD or with an ambiguous name may show blank institution columns — hand-edit the output for any gaps, as you would with the Python version of this tool.

ORCID, CrossRef, and OpenAlex are called directly from your browser. Other sources (Semantic Scholar, PubMed, NIH Reporter, NSF, DataCite) are forwarded through a lightweight proxy on this server to handle cross-origin restrictions. No data is stored server-side.