In order to help scholars understand and follow a research topic, significant research has been devoted to creating systems that help scholars discover relevant papers and authors. Recent approaches have shown the usefulness of highlighting relevant authors while scholars engage in paper discovery. However, these systems do not capture and utilize users' evolving knowledge of authors. We reflect on the design space and introduce ComLittee, a literature discovery system that supports author-centric exploration. In contrast to paper-centric interaction in prior systems, ComLittee's author-centric interaction supports curation of research threads from individual authors, finding new authors and papers with combined signals from a paper recommender and the curated authors' authorship graphs, and understanding them in the context of those signals. In a within-subjects experiment that compares to an author-highlighting approach, we demonstrate how ComLittee leads to a higher efficiency, quality, and novelty in author discovery that also improves paper discovery.

翻译：为了帮助学者理解和跟踪研究专题,已经进行了大量研究,以建立有助于学者发现相关论文和作者的系统。最近的做法表明,在学者进行纸质发现时,突出相关作者是有用的。然而,这些系统并不捕捉和利用用户对作者不断演变的知识。我们反思设计空间,并引入支持作者中心探索的文献发现系统ComLittee。与以往系统中以纸张为中心的互动相比,ComLittee的作者中心互动支持个人作者的研究线索的整理,找到新的作者和论文,同时从论文推荐人和整理作者作者的作者图中找到联合信号,并在这些信号中了解它们。在一项与作者高亮点方法相比的学科内实验中,我们展示ComLittee如何在作者发现中带来更高的效率、质量和新颖性,同时也改进了纸张发现。