FaE-Resource

The Find an Expert (FaE) resource includes the following components:Profile Data: A set of 8,984 academic profiles containing rich contextual information, including biographical descriptions, research interests, academic positions, publications, and funded projects.Interaction Logs: A 239-day log dataset (January–September 2025) comprising 712,937 interaction records from 89,582 users, capturing queries, result clicks, and temporal patterns that support the analysis of authentic expert-seeking behaviour.Search Results (SERPs): A collection of 530 fifty-item search result pages (SERPs) corresponding to queries that resulted in profile clicks.<b>Public Sample:</b> To facilitate reproducibility, we provide a sample package consisting of (i) a small subset of the interaction log (approximately ten sessions with click-throughs to selected profiles), (ii) the corresponding example profiles, and (iii) all 530 query strings used to generate the SERPs.The full dataset will be made available upon request and subject to agreement via direct contact with the authors. <br>