Publications

What exactly is covered in the “Publications” in Dimensions?
The publications content type in Dimensions includes journal articles, preprints, books and book chapters, and conference proceedings. To see a complete lis...
Thu, 28 Nov, 2019 at 10:58 AM
What is ReadCube?
ReadCube is part of the Digital Science group. ReadCube develops innovative tools to make the world of scholarly literature more accessible and connected f...
Mon, 29 Jul, 2019 at 2:40 PM
How is the publications data harvested?
Dimensions uses a variety of sources including Crossref, PubMed, Europe PubMed Central, arXiv and direct contacts with more than 130 publishers to create a ...
Wed, 11 Mar, 2020 at 2:20 PM
What is the difference between “Funded by” and “Supporting grants” shown on a publication page?
The information for both fields usually either comes from text-mining the "Acknowledgements" or "Funding" section of a publication (if t...
Fri, 11 Sep, 2020 at 10:54 PM
How many articles are indexed in Dimensions? How many are indexed with the full text?
There are approximately 130m articles/books/chapters in the Dimensions index and we are continually adding more. Roughly 70% of these articles include the ...
Thu, 15 Sep, 2022 at 2:03 AM
Where does the definition of “Open Access” come from in Dimensions? What does it include?
Dimensions relies on the unpaywall data set to flag articles as Open Access and for the full text button. If a publication is not included there, then a fu...
Fri, 8 Dec, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Definitions of Publications data fields in Dimensions (details page and export)
Publications details page The following information is available on the details page of a publication record in Dimensions: Field Description Publication ...
Tue, 20 Aug, 2024 at 5:43 PM
What is the "Export for Bibliometric Mapping" export option, and how can I use this?
The "Export for Bibliometric Mapping" option will export a .CSV file which is formatted to be used with the openly-available VOSviewer software pr...
Thu, 21 Nov, 2019 at 12:18 PM
Which publication and document types are available in Dimensions?
You may currently filter for the following publication and document types using the filter on the left-hand side: Publication types These are mainly based...
Thu, 13 Jun, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Can I search for reports, working papers, policy documents or other types of ‘grey literature’?
At present, we don’t include so-called ‘grey literature’ in the publications in Dimensions. However, subscribers have access to the separate ‘policy docume...
Mon, 16 Sep, 2019 at 11:16 AM