Publications
What are the inclusion criteria for publications in Dimensions?
Dimensions has an inclusive approach to publication indexing. We index all source titles covered by our publication data sources such as Crossref, Pub...
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 comple...
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 cre...
How many articles are indexed in Dimensions? How many are indexed with the full text?
There are approximately 160m articles/books/chapters in the Dimensions index and we are continually adding more. Roughly 70% of these articles include...
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: These are mainly based on how a rese...
Definitions of Publications data fields in Dimensions (details page and export)
The following information is available on the details page of a publication record in Dimensions: Field Description Publication type Type of the publi...
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 this content is...
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, th...
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 progra...
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 d...
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 connec...
Are preprints included in Dimensions?
Yes, preprints are available in Dimensions and are included as one of the publication types (the other publication types are articles, chapters, monog...
Which publication dates does Dimensions use?
There are two dates commonly used for the version of record of a publication: online date and print date . Wherever possible and available, both da...