{"id":1838,"date":"2019-01-16T20:47:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T20:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2024-10-31T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T19:00:57","slug":"2018-dimensions-research-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/blog\/2018-dimensions-research-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Dimensions research roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since Dimensions launched one year ago, we\u2019ve worked in close partnership with the scientometrics community to support their research. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers worldwide are already using Dimensions\u2019 rich, interlinked data on publications, citations, patents, grants, policy documents, clinical trials, authors, institutions and subject areas to make new discoveries about the structures of science. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this post, I\u2019ll share a <\/span><b>selection of research and tools from 2018 that use Dimensions\u2019 data<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for scientometric analyses. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ll also share <\/span><b>exciting news about the newly-launched Dimensions Scientometrics User Group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a free-to-join program that connects researchers with expertise and free data for noncommercial scientometrics research.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Dimensions-powered research published in 2018<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/publicacoes.bad.pt\/revistas\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Altmetria e a an\u00e1lise das condi\u00e7\u00f5es de intera\u00e7\u00e3o em torno de artigos sobre pol\u00edticas p\u00fablicas: uma incurs\u00e3o metodol\u00f3gica (Altmetrics and the analysis of the interaction conditions around articles on public policies: a methodological incursion)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Atas da 9\u00aa Confer\u00eancia Luso Brasileira sobre Acesso Aberto (Minutes of the 9th Luso-Brazilian Conference on Open Access), Thaiane Moreira de Oliveira, Ronaldo Ara\u00fajo, Janderson Pereira Toth, Michael Taylor. 2018. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uses Dimensions and Altmetric data to analyze discourse around open access articles, identifying a new demographic that uses research to make political arguments on social networks.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/recyt.fecyt.es\/index.php\/EPI\/article\/view\/epi.2018.mar.21\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dimensions: re-discovering the ecosystem of scientific information<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Profesional de la Informaci\u00f3n, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enrique Ordu\u00f1a-Malea, Emilio Delgado-L\u00f3pez-C\u00f3zar. March 21, 2018 doi: 10.3145\/epi.2018.mar.21<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compares Dimensions\u2019 LIS subject area coverage to Scopus and Google Scholar.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.joi.2018.03.006\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dimensions: A competitor to Scopus and the Web of Science?<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Journal of Informetrics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Mike Thelwall. 12(2), 430-435. doi: 10.1016\/j.joi.2018.03.006 (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1803.07525\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">preprint<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/Dimensions_vs_Scopus_for_Scopus_articles_with_DOIs_from_2012\/5970952\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dataset<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compares Dimensions\u2019 food science subject area coverage to Scopus<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/326070129_Cascading_citation_expansion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/326070129_Cascading_citation_expansion&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1548927639368000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHgbQV7G2WhxAMiQBkjTWJxT6Aiug\">Cascading Citation Expansion<\/a>, Chaomei Chen.\u00a0<i>Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice,<\/i>\u00a06 (2). doi:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1633\/JISTaP.2018.6.2.1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1633\/JISTaP.2018.6.2.1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1548927639368000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6x9su0D6wo7JbXUsBqpy0T4ir0A\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1633\/<wbr \/>JISTaP.2018.6.2.1<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBuilding on the open API of Dimensions, we integrate cascading citation expansion functions in CiteSpace and demonstrate how one may benefit from these new capabilities. In conclusion, cascading citation expansion has the potential to improve our understanding of the structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doi.org\/10.31235\/osf.io\/b6x43\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Cooperation Networks of the BRICS Bloc.<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SocArXiv, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thaiane M.de Oliveira, Sofia de Albuquerque, Janderson P. Toth, and Debora Z. Bello. August 4 2018. doi: 10.31235\/osf.io\/b6x43. 2018. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/blog\/networks-of-international-cooperation-of-the-brics-countries\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blog post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A study on international cooperation among Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa in the last five years through the Dimensions platform, based on the incidence of international co-authoring and co-financing of research agencies.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/aae065\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Food, trade, and the environment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental Research Letters, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">David Seekell, Paolo D&#8217;Odorico, and Graham K MacDonald. September 27 2018. doi: 10.1088\/1748-9326\/aae065<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uses Dimensions data to perform a subject area analysis of articles published in a themed Focus Issue of <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Environmental Research Letters.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs11192-018-2855-y\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Field classification of publications in Dimensions: a first case study testing its reliability and validity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientometrics, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lutz Bornmann. October 2018. doi: 10.1007\/s11192-018-2855-y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uses the author\u2019s body of work in the science of science discipline to explore Dimensions subject area coverage. <\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007%2Fs11192-018-2854-z\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Response to the letter \u2018Field classification of publications in Dimensions: a first case study testing its reliability and validity\u2019<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientometrics, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christian Herzog, Brian Kierkegaard Lunn. October 2018. doi: 10.1007\/s11192-018-2854-z<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explanation of how Dimensions subject area coverage works, offers a response to findings of Bornmann paper.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.yfrne.2018.11.003\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sexual differentiation of microglia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Alessandro Villa, Sara Della Torre, Adriana Maggi. November 24 2018. doi: 10.1016\/j.yfrne.2018.11.003<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of a larger study on microglia, uses Dimensions data to illustrate the growth of related research since 2000.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Scientometric Analysis and Visualization Tools<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dimensions has partnered with (and even created!) bibliometrics analysis tools in the past year, which enable easier data visualization and analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/blog\/discovering-relationships-between-researchers-and-publications-using-dimensions-data-just-got-a-lot-more-colorful\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VOSviewer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for creating co-authorship networks and citation-based network visualizations using Dimensions data<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cluster.cis.drexel.edu\/~cchen\/citespace\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CiteSpace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for visualizing patterns and trends in scientific literature using Dimensions data<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lexiurl.wlv.ac.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Webometric Analyst<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for analyzing bibliometric data from Dimensions, as well as webometric and altmetric data from Altmetric<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Python package <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/networkx.github.io\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NetworkX<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.dimensions.ai\/dsl\/latest\/index.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dimensions API<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to create institutional collaboration networks &#8211; check out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/Jupyter_Notebook\/6729290\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">our Jupyter notebook for the source code<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/blog\/building-institutional-collaboration-diagrams-with-the-dimensions-search-api\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a step-by-step guide on our blog<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Join the Dimensions Scientometrics User Group<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Late last year, we invited a select group of researchers to join our Scientometrics User Group: an exclusive worldwide community for those who use Dimensions data to power their own analyses. I\u2019m pleased to report that the \u201cDimensions SUG\u201d, as I like to call it, is over 100 members strong and now open to join! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dimensions SUG is free and open to scholars from all disciplines, at all stages of their careers. SUG members can apply to receive no-cost access to Dimensions data (including use of our powerful API) for approved noncommercial research projects. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ds.digital-science.com\/DimensionsSUG\"><b>Sign up here to join the Dimensions Scientometrics User Group<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> You can also register for the upcoming February 28th <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIntro to using Dimensions data for research\u201d webinar<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (15:00 GMT\/10 AM EST) to learn more before committing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Questions? Email me at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:s.konkiel@digital-science.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s.konkiel@digital-science.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more information.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Citation network image from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/ftp\/arxiv\/papers\/1806\/1806.00089.pdf\">Cascading Citation Expansion<\/a>\u201d by Chaomei Chen<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recap of research and tools from 2018 that use Dimensions\u2019 data for scientometric analyses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"latestblog_background":"","latestblog_bgcolor":"","latestblog_textcolor":"","latestblog_overlay":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"resource_audience_segment":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"author_name":"Stacy Konkiel","author_image":9277,"header_image":"","cta":""},"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/scientometrics-e1559935290704.png",800,300,false]},"post_excerpt_dimensions":"<p>A recap of research and tools from 2018 that use Dimensions\u2019 data for scientometric analyses.<\/p>\n","category_list":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/blog\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"admin","url":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"resource_audience_segment","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimensions.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource_audience_segment?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}