{"id":11694,"date":"2019-08-12T16:45:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=11694"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T10:12:46","slug":"an-easy-to-use-and-powerful-api-for-topic-analysis","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/resources\/an-easy-to-use-and-powerful-api-for-topic-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"An easy to use and powerful API for topic analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-dimensions-one-column\"><div class=\"has-background-image-13298 dimensions-section\" style=\"background-color:#304E9D;background-size:cover;background-position:center center;background-image:url('\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/dimensions-print-title-image-09-scaled.jpg')\"><div class=\"dimensions-blocks-section-inner container mx-auto md:w-3\/4 pl-8 pr-8 pt-12 pb-4\">\n<h2 class=\"has-grey-color has-text-color wp-block-heading\">\u201cDimensions provides a very easy to use and powerful package for interdisciplinary research topic analysis.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-white-color has-text-color\">John de Mello, Head of Nano at Norwegian University of Science &amp; Technology<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:2rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When John joined NTNU in September 2018, he was tasked with getting a handle on the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology-related research being conducted at the university. John says: \u201c At that stage, there were no detailed records within the university\u2019s three campuses on the topic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John was asked to not only map the nano activity but figure out the university\u2019s respective research strengths and weaknesses in the area. John decided to take a bibliometric approach and was soon drawn to the Dimensions API because of the flexibility it offered to build and run highly customized queries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using the Dimensions API, John wanted to answer the following&nbsp; questions about NTNU and nanoscience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Who is working in nanoscience?<\/li><li>What areas are they currently working in?<\/li><li>What areas are they not covering? Who are their current collaborators?<\/li><li>Who should they consider collaborating with?<\/li><li>Where is NTNU getting its nanoscience funding from?<\/li><li>Are there other funding opportunities?<\/li><li>What has NTNU published in nanoscience in the last year\/ last 5 years?<\/li><li>What nanoscience-related patents has it filed?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Using the Dimensions API to find nano publications published by NTNU in 2018<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example, John was looking for all 2018 publications affiliated to NTNU that contained the keyword \u201cnano\u201d in the title, abstract or full text. He wanted to know:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Publication type<\/li><li>Citation numbers and Altmetric score<\/li><li>Authors<\/li><li>Funders<\/li><li>Open Access status<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He also wanted to obtain the publication DOIs so that he had a consistent identifier to find and acquire the resulting papers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1-1024x301.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13736\" width=\"768\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1-1024x301.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1-300x88.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1-768x226.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1-1019x300.png 1019w, https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image-1-1.png 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Dimensions API search query<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>John found that Dimensions did a very good job of collating all the nano-related publications authored by NTNU researchers. Dimensions even found papers NTNU was previously unaware of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image02-1024x316.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13737\" width=\"768\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image02-1024x316.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image02-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image02-768x237.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image02-973x300.png 973w, https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/image02.png 1038w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>Example of the manipulated Dimensions API results<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>John liked the following aspects of Dimensions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Easy to use API<\/li><li>Integration of publication data with funding and patent data<\/li><li>Integrated Altmetric data to show wider impact of work<\/li><li>Comprehensive documentation: in little more than a day, John was able to extract the kind of information he wanted<\/li><li>Good technical support: for technical questions same day solutions were provided <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-dimensions-one-column\"><div class=\"dimensions-section\" style=\"background-color:#FFFFFF;background-size:cover;background-position:center center;background-image:url('null')\"><div class=\"dimensions-blocks-section-inner container mx-auto md:w-3\/4 pl-0 pr-0 pt-12 pb-8\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">\u201cThe Dimensions API comes with great documentation and technical support.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, John found&nbsp; 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