Abstract: Computer-implemented methods and systems for integrating computer applications are disclosed. One method includes querying a primary computer application for current state of a newly created object; receiving the current state of the object, and generating object data for a secondary computer application based on the current state of the object. The method further includes communicating an object creation request to a secondary computer application, the object creation request including the generated object data, receiving a secondary computer application object identifier from the secondary computer application upon creation of the object at the secondary computer application, and communicating the secondary computer application object identifier to the primary computer application for storing in a record of the object created at the primary computer application.

Abstract: A method for responding to a query on a database of publications includes receiving a user query including one or more keywords. A plurality of publications of the database are analyzed to determine a subset of publications that relate to the received keywords. A set of authors is established. The set including all authors credited as having contributed to each publication of the subset of publications. A score is calculated for each author of the set of authors based on information obtained from each publication that credits the author being scored as an author thereof. Query results including a set of top-scoring authors of the established set of authors are provided to the user.