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 on how a research output has been classified at the source (e.g. in Crossref or PubMed or by the publisher).
Publication type | Definition |
|---|---|
Article | Article from a scientific journal or trade magazine, including news and editorial content |
Book | Edited book or volume comprised of chapters usually written by different authors and harmonized by one or more editors |
Chapter | Individual part of an (edited) book, including individual entries in encyclopediae |
Monograph | Book on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author |
Preprint | Non-peer-reviewed version of a scholarly or scientific paper |
Proceeding | Individual paper published in conference proceedings, including editorial content |
Seminar | Academic seminars from Cassyni |
Document types
Document types offer a more granular view of a publication, allowing you to drill down to sub-groups such as research articles, conference abstracts and letters to the editor. In order to determine the document type of a publication Dimensions uses a combined classifier based on two main classifiers:
A set of highly reliable fixed rules based on the metadata of a publication, mostly relying on a type provided by a publisher (similar to publication types above);
A machine-learning model, applied where the document doesn’t fit one of the fixed rules.
Alongside each output we provide a flag indicating whether the document type class is considered citable, i.e. whether this publication can reasonably be expected to be referenced in other work. The citable flag is tied to the document type, not calculated for the document itself and is available in the Dimensions data on Google BigQuery.
Note that the classifier does not try and classify the following publication types: Monographs, Edited Books.
Document type | Is citable | Definition |
|---|---|---|
Conference Paper | Yes | Original research papers written by different authors and presented at a scientific conference. Typically published in a proceeding. |
Research Article | Yes | Primary research published in a journal. |
Research Chapter | Yes | Chapters in edited books are original works. A chapter in an Edited book is a separate part of the edited book contributed by different authors and harmonized by an editor. Monograph chapters are considered to be an integral part of the Monograph and are hence not indexed individually. |
Review Article | Yes | Systematic review articles |
Book Review | No | Review of published books |
Conference Abstract | No | Abstracts of publications presented at conferences. Also includes abstracts used for presentations as well as posters. |
Correction Erratum | No | Correction or Erratum published in relation to other publication |
Editorial | No | Opinion maker, that tackles recent events and issues, and attempts to formulate viewpoints based on an objective analysis of happenings and conflicting/contrary opinions. Editorials reconcile between contrary viewpoints or standpoints, they are balanced in the analysis of evidence and events, and they are, manifest or otherwise, crusading in its thrust. (see e.g., this paper). In addition to articles explicitly titled editorial, this includes, Introduction, Foreword or Preface, leading article, and similar content. |
Letter to Editor | No | Post-publication communication directed to the journal, on some aspects of an original paper published in the journal, including post-publication reviews or critique. Also includes communication in form of a comment, a discussion or a note. |
Other Book Content | No | Book content not possible to add to any of the other book categories. |
Other Conference Content | No | Conference content not possible to add to any of the other conference categories |
Other Journal Content | No | Other non-citable document types including announcements |
Reference Work | No | Used for quick information seeking, with a generally informative writing style. |