This is an idea of an additional widget missing I think for the author view: the visualization of all the affiliations of the authors over time.
This could be displayed on a visual x-axis as bars corresponding to institutions (y-axis), the bar appearing for each year with at least one publication of the author with this affiliation. A bar over several years means the author has published over all these years with the same affiliation. The color of the bar could be scaled from light to dark following the number of publications with this affiliation.
This is an idea of an additional widget missing I think for the author view: the visualization of all the affiliations of the authors over time.
This could be displayed on a visual x-axis as bars corresponding to institutions (y-axis), the bar appearing for each year with at least one publication of the author with this affiliation. A bar over several years means the author has published over all these years with the same affiliation. The color of the bar could be scaled from light to dark following the number of publications with this affiliation.
I can add a sketch if it's not clear ;)