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Collaborators & Other Affiliations Tool
Research support tool

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 file (XLSX, CSV, or PDF) with one row per unique co-author or collaborator over the reporting window.

This tool does the heavy lifting: fetching publications, deduplicating co-authors, and enriching names and institutions where it can. Source metadata is uneven, so always review the generated file before submission and fill any gaps by hand. Output targets NSF PAPPG 24-1, Table 4 (Senior Personnel Documents, Tables A & B).

1 Principal Investigator

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

16 digits, dashed. Don't have one?
Sent as mailto to CrossRef — gets you out of low-priority rate-limit buckets.

Your ORCID iD, name, and email stay in your browser. ORCID, CrossRef, and OpenAlex are queried directly; other sources go through a stateless proxy. Nothing is stored on our servers.

2 Window & output

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

Extension(s) added automatically.

3 Data sources (optional)

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

Additional sources may increase build time by 30–60 seconds. Slow sources query paginated grant APIs.

4 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. NSF's COA also covers graduate advisors/advisees, co-editors, and other categories per PAPPG 24-1; add those here manually.

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.

What this tool covers vs. what you add manually

This tool automatically discovers co-authors (from publications) and co-investigators (from NIH/NSF grants). NSF's COA per PAPPG 24-1 also requires graduate advisors, advisees, postdoctoral sponsors, co-editors, and other categories. Add those via the "Permanent people" section above — they will appear in the output with whatever relationship category you select.