FindMyKOL

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KOL Finder

Name a therapeutic area, an indication, a drug, a company or an institution and get the key opinion leaders in it: the physicians and researchers who run the registered trials, hold the NIH grants, publish the papers and report the industry payments. The search and the first profile are free, with no account.

Plain English works: the search reads the phrase against the directory’s own vocabulary and lands on the matching filters, which stay visible in the address bar.

What it searches

771,365 physician and researcher profiles, 2,507 of them enriched with itemized records, every one assembled from the public record and matched to the right person before it is published. The sources are federal registries and open scholarly indexes: NPPES, ClinicalTrials.gov, NIH RePORTER, CMS Open Payments, OpenAlex and PubMed. Each number on a profile names the source it came from.

How results are ranked

A search for one indication lists the people most active in it first, by their papers and registered trials in that indication, so a myeloma search leads with myeloma investigators and not with the most-cited oncologist who mentioned it once. A broader search orders by citations on OpenAlex. Any list re-sorts by publications, h-index, trials, recent activity or rising activity, and filters by region, institution, company, specialty, society role and more.

What a row shows, and what it never shows

Identifiers, counts, years and the sources behind them. Never scraped emails or phone numbers, never prescription claims data, and never a judgment of anyone’s influence on a public page. Ranking tiers are an interpretation and stay behind an account, on profiles a user has opened.

What you get on each profile

The right person

Every US profile is anchored on an NPI from the federal NPPES registry, and the research identity on ORCID where it is confirmed. A namesake is shown with specialty and place before anyone opens it.

Trials

Registered studies from ClinicalTrials.gov with the person's role, the phase, the status and the sponsor, so an investigator list reads from the registry and not from a brochure.

Grants and payments

NIH projects with fiscal year and award amount from NIH RePORTER, and industry payments by company and program year from CMS Open Payments. Payments are reported facts; the page never interprets them.

Publications and congresses

Publication and citation counts from OpenAlex and PubMed, the recent papers, and congress abstracts where the record carries them, with an Emerging flag on profiles whose recent activity is rising.

Find KOLs by therapeutic area

Each area has its own page with the registered trials, NIH awards and reported payments of the people in it, cited and dated, and the institutions where the work is.

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By US region

Frequently asked questions

What is a KOL finder?
A tool that turns a therapeutic area, an indication or a drug into the list of physicians and researchers who lead the work in it, with the evidence for each. This one reads public registries (NPPES, ClinicalTrials.gov, NIH RePORTER, CMS Open Payments, OpenAlex and PubMed) and cites every count to the source it came from.
Is the FindMyKOL KOL finder free?
Yes. The search, every filter and one public profile need no account. A free account opens 5 profiles and a workspace for the lists you keep; full itemized histories are part of Pro.
How is the list ranked?
A search for one indication lists the people most active in it first, by their papers and registered trials in that indication. A broader search orders by citations on OpenAlex. Any list can be re-sorted by publications, h-index, trials, recent activity or rising activity, and filtered by region, institution, company, specialty and society role.
Where do the numbers come from?
From the public record only: NPPES for identity and practice location, ClinicalTrials.gov for trials, NIH RePORTER for grants, CMS Open Payments for industry payments, OpenAlex and PubMed for publications. FindMyKOL never uses prescription claims data or scraped contact details, and every number on a profile names its source.
How often is it updated?
Profiles are rebuilt from the source registries on a rolling basis. Each therapeutic-area page shows the date its numbers were last published, and each fact on a profile carries the source and the date it was collected, so freshness can be judged per record.
How is this different from a KOL management platform?
A management platform is a licensed system for tracking a company's own engagement with experts. This is an open directory for finding and checking people, built from the public record and usable without a contract. Lists filter, sort and export, so they can go into whichever system a team already runs.

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