News – Dimensions

Does cancer research funding need a reset?

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 12:29:01 +0000

Could funding disparities be weakening the capacity of cancer research to improve patient lives? Yes, according to the findings published in a Lancet paper, Global funding for cancer research between 2016 and 2020: a content analysis of public and philanthropic investments. A new study has shown major disparities between research funding for cancer treatments and how they are implemented.

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Atypon, Elsevier and Digital Science collaborate to deliver usage reporting

Tue, 09 Oct 2018 09:10:47 +0000

Technology initiative to benefit publishers, institutions and researchers Scholarly publishers will soon be able to receive usage reporting from Mendeley, Elsevier’s leading Scholarly Collaboration Network (SCN), and Digital Science’s literature discovery tools, ReadCube, Papers, and Dimensions. These industry firsts are made possible by a collaboration led by Elsevier, Atypon…

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Digital Science joins DORA: a commitment to community and an invitation to innovate

Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:00:37 +0000

by Daniel Hook & Christian Herzog Our team has been involved in thinking about research metrics since before Digital Science itself came into existence in 2010. Besides the two authors of this piece, who have spent a significant portion of their professional lives developing tools to support and inform the academic community, Digital Science comprises more like-minded people who have been…

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Digital Science integrates 360,000+ policy documents into Dimensions

Thu, 23 Aug 2018 13:11:25 +0000

Research technology company Digital Science today announced the addition of over 360,000 policy documents to research insights platform Dimensions. With this integration, Dimensions further broadens the view of activity across the research lifecycle and provides valuable insights into an important and high profile aspect of the impact of the research. Initially drawn from over 50 global policy…

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Dimensions indexes over 1.4 million patents from Russia

Mon, 20 Aug 2018 10:15:53 +0000

Research technology company Digital Science today announced that it has integrated over 1.4 million patents from Russia into its Dimensions platform, which provides information on scholarly research activity worldwide. The only research insights platform to consistently link Russian patent information to publications from universities and research institutes globally…

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Figshare Integration offers enhanced discoverability to supplemental data

Thu, 02 Aug 2018 05:00:20 +0000

We are excited to announce the first of many integrations with Figshare, part of the Digital Science portfolio of products. Figshare provides FAIR compliant data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders. Data can be shared privately with collaborators or made public in the name of open research or to comply with funder and publisher mandates. With the new integration…

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The Ohio Department of Higher Education working with Digital Science to develop a statewide research expertise portal in new $1.5m project

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 05:00:57 +0000

Research technology company Digital Science announced today that it has embarked on a project with the Ohio Department of Higher Education to work in partnership with the Ohio Technology Consortium (OH-TECH) to highlight Ohio’s biomedical and engineering faculty and to showcase Ohio’s campus facilities and equipment critical to the innovation process. Named the Ohio Innovation Exchange (OIEx)…

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Constructing network graphs for analysis just became a lot easier

Tue, 03 Jul 2018 13:02:15 +0000

Simon Porter,VP Academic Relationships and Knowledge Architecture, Digital Science Exploring the power of the Dimensions API In their latest Nature Index supplement in earth and environmental sciences, the Nature Index team at Nature Research have provided an exploration of interdisciplinary collaboration within the field. Based on Dimensions data, this analysis highlights a number of…

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Dimensions announced as a finalist for the ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing

Mon, 25 Jun 2018 18:00:20 +0000

With a record year for entries to the Awards with 45 submissions received from 10 countries, Dimensions is honored to be a finalist and included on the shortlist of recipients for this year’s ALPSP Awards for Innovation in Publishing. A panel of 10 esteemed judges independently scored each submission then convened to discuss the merits of each entry from their different perspectives and make…

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Digital Science announces Dimensions integration of ORCID

Wed, 09 May 2018 16:51:00 +0000

Dimensions, the linked research information system from Digital Science, today announced a new collaboration with ORCID which will make it possible for authors to connect their ORCID iD to Dimensions and import their publication metadata from Dimensions into to their ORCID record. A non-profit organization supported by the global scholarly community, ORCID provides individual…

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