Dimensions - Publications (free)

Latest screenshot: 2024-07-09

Access to search interface:

open

Last major interface update:

N/A

Owner of search system:

Digital Science & Research Solutions Inc.

Location of system headquarters:

London, UK

Year of launch:

2018

Type:

Search engine

URL:

https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication

Help URL:

https://dimensions.freshdesk.com/support/home

X-Handle:

@DSDimensions

Description of database (by system owner)

Dimensions contains more than 100 million publications, ranging from articles published in scholarly journals, books and book chapters, to preprints and conference proceedings. All publications are contextualized with linked data sets, funding, publications, patents, clinical trials, and policy documents. You can also view associated categories, funders, institutions, and researcher profiles.

Description of search system (by system owner)

How much you want to explore and analyze with Dimensions is up to you. This is what Dimensions offers: - Access to the world’s largest linked research database, covering publications, grants, patents, clinical trials, datasets, policy documents or technical reports. - The opportunity to explore and analyze links between documents and understand the entire research landscape: individual researchers, research organizations, funders, source titles, publishers, open access, trending topics, and so much more. - A flexible platform tailored to the needs of academic institutions and their researchers, government organizations and agencies, funders, publishers, and R&D departments – whatever your focus might be.

Notes

Many features (like proximity search and query builder) are only available in Dimensions Analytics or Dimensions Plus (paywalled versions).

Total coverage:

136.09M

Year-over-year growth (2021-2022):

1.04%

Subject coverage:

Multidisciplinary

Retrospective coverage:

1667–2023

Record types:

Open Access records:

44.09M / 32.40%

Search functionality and interface

Systematic keyword searching:

extensive

Backward citation searching:

sufficient

Forward citation searching:

sufficient

Query builder:

Search history:

Match preview:

Sorting options:

Query

Latency with short query:

3 seconds

Latency with long query:

3.8 seconds

Controlled vocabulary:

Field codes:

Full text search:

Search string length (narrow):

100 terms max.

Search string length (wide):

25 terms max.

Language support: Chinese:

Language support: Cyrillic:

Truncation:

Wildcards:

Keyword position irrelevant:

Longer strings, fewer hits:

Automatic query expansion (stemming):

Verbatim queries:

Reproducible queries (time):

Reproducible queries (locations):

Operators

Search operators:

Boolean 'OR':

Boolean 'AND':

Boolean 'NOT':

Proximity operator:

Boolean works exact:

Nested search (parentheses):

Citation search / filtering

Record type filters:

Results filters:

Suggested related records:

Supported by bibliometric tools:

CiteSpace; Bibliometrix; VOSviewer

Backward citation information:

Backward citation score:

75.80%

Forward citation information:

Forward citation score:

69.62%

Retrieval

Number of accessible records:

1000

Bulk select records:

Bulk export records:

500

Export formats:

API:

upon request

Bulk select records' backward citations:

Bulk export backward citations:

500

Bulk select records' forward citations:

Bulk export forward citations:

500

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