How to use MIDAS Discover
MIDAS Discover offers two lenses on infectious-disease modeling research by
MIDAS Network members. Switch between them with the toggle at the top.
ThemeRiver — how research topics shift over time
Each coloured ribbon is a theme — a frequently occurring word or
phrase (an n-gram) drawn from papers' MeSH terms, keywords, or titles and
abstracts. A ribbon's thickness at a given year shows how many papers used that theme,
so you can watch topics rise and fall (for example, the surge in COVID-19 themes after 2020).
- PubMed field & N-gram size choose what counts as a theme.
- Stream vs Stacked: Stream centres the ribbons to compare shapes; Stacked reads absolute paper counts off the y-axis.
- Click a ribbon (or a theme in the list) to see the papers behind it for that year.
Network Visualizer — who works with whom
Every node is a MIDAS member; a link between two members means they have
co-authored papers, and nodes are coloured by the research
community (cluster) they belong to. Use the filters to narrow by person, keyword,
organization, paper, or grant — the People, Grants, and Papers tables update together.
- Click a node or a person's name to see their affiliation, publications, grants, and contact links.
- Drag the background to pan; scroll or double-click to zoom.
- Filters combine with AND, so results match every criterion you set.