Recruiting and promoting the best scientists for your institution
We benchmark researchers with similar academic profiles, so every hire and every promotion rests on a fair and complete evaluation — across 99M researcher profiles and 104,345 institutions in 224 countries.
Academic headhunting
Increase and diversify your talent pool
A faculty search is only as good as the people who hear about it. Prophy finds researchers who fit the position and lets you reach them, instead of ranking whoever happened to apply.
- Diverse by construction. Identify candidates diverse in gender, geographic location, and experience level.
- Reach the people who should apply. Inform relevant researchers about the job opening.
- Ranked against the role. Evaluate candidates on their similarity to the job description and on their scientific achievements.
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1 A. Lindqvist SE 2.91KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2011–2026)
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2 N. Okonkwo NG 2.84University of Cape Town, South Africa (2015–2026)
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3 R. Bhattacharya IN 2.78Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India (2009–2026)
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4 S. Ferreira BR 2.71University of São Paulo, Brazil (2012–2026)
Applicants' selection
Collaboratively manage your candidates
Search committees decide together. Prophy keeps the whole applicant pool in one place while they do.
- Short-list together. Prioritize candidates by upvoting and collaborate with other team members to evaluate each applicant's suitability.
- One sortable table. Every applicant's bibliometric achievements and relevance to the job description, side by side.
- Grouped the way you think. Cluster candidates according to their research and categorize them with relevant tags.
| Name | Upvotes | Score | Articles | h-index | Citations | |
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| Computational materials 11 candidates | ||||||
| A. LindqvistSE | ▲5 AKMRJS | 2.91 | 84 | 41 | 6 400+ | |
| R. BhattacharyaIN | ▲4 MRJS | 2.78 | 96 | 38 | 5 600+ | |
| Materials characterisation 8 candidates | ||||||
| N. OkonkwoNG | ▲3 AKJS | 2.84 | 71 | 33 | 4 100+ | |
| S. FerreiraBR | ▲2 AK | 2.71 | 63 | 29 | 3 200+ | |
Independent evaluation you can defend
Appointment and promotion decisions get read by people who were not in the room. These are the two things they ask for.
Find experts to independently assess candidates in every discipline, from physical and life sciences to social sciences and humanities. Independence is ensured through conflict-of-interest detection, and you can pick generalists who know the bigger picture alongside specialists familiar with a candidate's work.
A detailed performance report on any researcher with a click of a button — the same benchmarked evidence for every candidate, produced in seconds rather than assembled by hand.
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We'll walk you through the whole process on a real opening from your institution.
Peer report
Peer-to-peer and topic-to-topic evaluations
A hire or a promotion turns on a comparison. Prophy makes it a like-for-like one.
- Compare a scientist's effectiveness against other authors of the same scientific age and research field.
- Discover a researcher's closest peers.
- Determine performance across disciplines and career stages with percentile rankings based on bibliometrics.
Researcher profile
Full bibliometrics and scientific achievements of each researcher
- The whole record. Past affiliations, areas of specialisation, and bibliometrics of any researcher.
- Publication analysis. Bibliometrics with and without consortia papers, and contributions as a leading or a senior author.
- Scientific achievement. Notable articles, seminal papers, and foundational contributions to a research field.
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2011–2026)
- Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (2004–2011)
- University of Groningen, Netherlands (1998–2004)
- more on author page
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ETH Zurich. Office of Research
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Inside the Referee Finder
How external assessors are matched to a candidate, explained, and conflict-checked.
Composing an evaluation panel
Build a tenure or appointment panel that covers the candidate's field without conflicts.
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