Finding Experts

The bad news: There is no central repository of experts.

Encyclopedia of Associations [NYU-Only]
Use this resource to identify organizations that deal with your topic.
NOTE: Sometimes individual associations will have their own databases of experts in the field.

ProfNet [Free; Registration Required]
Designed with journalists in mind, you can search this network of 25,000 experts.

Subject-Specific Article Databases [NYU-Only]
Search a subject-specific database to find out which academics are writing about your topic. Subject-specific databases such as PsycINFO are very scholarly in nature and contain articles by academic experts in a field.

Two subject-specific databases that are freely available to the public are:

• ERIC
  This is *the* education database. Sponsored by the US Dept of Education, Institute for Education Sciences.
• PubMed
  Great for medical topics. A service of the US National Medical Library and the National Institutes of Health.

For Science and Medical Experts

• Authoratory.com
  Find experts in the specific areas of life-sciences, including chemistry, biology and medicine. (Site pulls its data by analyzing articles and authors in PubMed.) Still under development. Read more about Authoratory

• Media Resource Service
  A non-profit service that has served as a bridge between science and the media since 1980. Journalists can call or email and get help at no charge in locating expert sources of information on science and technology.

• American Men and Women of Science [NYU Only]
  ” biographical dictionary of the significant players in the physical, biological and related sciences”. Includes contact info.

Find an expert at NYU

Finding Experts at NYU

NYU Expert Contacts

• Experts at NYU from the Office of Public Affairs
• Office of Public Affairs Press Contacts
• Some individual departments have their own contacts
  • SCPS Experts Directory “offers journalists an online guide to the expertise of current faculty and administrators. These experts can provide comment on a wide range of topics related to adult and continuing education and New York’s signature industries – business, real estate, finance, hospitality, tourism, film, publishing, the arts, and more.”
  • Stern Resources for Journalists
  • Steinhardt Faculty By Expertise
  • Wagner Faculty Experts for the Media
  • Try browsing the faculty section within a specific department and look at faculty research to identify potential experts.