Dimensions (database)
Dimensions is a database of abstracts and citations and of research grants, which links grants to resulting publications, clinical trials and patents. Dimensions is part of Digital Science (or Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd) - a technology company headquartered London, United Kingdom. The company focuses on strategic investments into startup companies, that support the research lifecycle.
| Producer | Digital_Science (international developers) |
|---|---|
| Access | |
| Cost | Free and Subscription |
| Coverage | |
| Disciplines | Life sciences; social sciences; physical sciences; health sciences |
| Record depth | 106 million publications with over 1.2 billion citations openly accessible at |
| Geospatial coverage | Worldwide |
| Links | |
| Website | app.dimensions.ai |
Dimensions was launched in 2018.[1] It is accessible free-of-charge at app.dimensons.ai.
Two studies published in 2021 compared Dimensions with its subscription-based commercial competitors, and both concluded that Dimensions.ai provided broader temporal and publication source coverage than Scopus and Web of Science in most subject areas, and that Dimensions was closer in its coverage to free aggregation databases, such as The Lens and Google Scholar.[2][3] As of July 2023, Dimensions.ai covers nearly 140 million publications with over 1.8 billion citations.[3]
References
- Schonfeld, Roger C. (15 January 2018). "A New Citation Database Launches Today: Dimensions". The Scholarly Kitchen. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
- Singh, V. K., P. Singh, M. Karmakar, J. Leta and P. Mayr (2021). "The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A comparative analysis." Scientometrics 126(6): 5113-5142
- Martín-Martín, A., M. Thelwall, E. Orduna-Malea and E. Delgado López-Cózar (2021). "Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations." Scientometrics 126(1): 871-906