Linked research data from idea to impact
Dimensions data and solutions for discovery and analytics
The world’s largest linked research database
141m
Publications
7m
Grants
30m
Datasets
263m
Online Mentions
2m
Policy Documents
811k
Clinical Trials
158m
Patents
Dimensions covers millions of research publications connected by more than 1.8 billion citations, supporting grants, datasets, clinical trials, patents and policy documents.
141m publications from 111k journals, 59 preprint servers and over 1.7m books

Document Links

1.8 billion citations
23m supporting grants
2.8m links to datasets
2.5m links to clinical trials
16m links to patents
2.7m links to policy documents

Links to Organizations & Researchers

122m links to organizations
330m links to researchers
36m links to funders
Dimensions is the most comprehensive research grants database which links grants to millions of resulting publications, clinical trials and patents.
7m grants worth more than 2.5 trillion USD from 696 funders worldwide

Document Links

11.5m resulting publications
21k resulting clinical trials
70k resulting patents

Links to Organizations & Researchers

7m links to organisations
10m links to researchers
7m links to funders
Dimensions includes datasets from repositories such as Figshare, Dryad, Zenodo, Pangaea, and many more.
30m datasets from over 1k repositories worldwide

Document Links

2.8m associated publications

Links to Organizations & Researchers

22m links to organisations
92m links to researchers
4m links to funders
Dimensions provides up-to-the minute online attention data via Altmetric, showing you how often publications and clinical trials are discussed around the world.
263m Altmetric mentions with 20m links to publications
Policy documents with more than 2.7m links to publications show the societal impact of scholarly work.
2m policy documents
Clinical trials are experiments or observations done in clinical research – Dimensions surfaces links to publications, resulting online mentions, and supporting grants.
811k clinical trials from 15 sources

Document Links

561k links to publications
35k links to grants

Links to Organizations & Researchers

2.2m links to organisations
782k links to researchers
590k links to funders
Dimensions hosts millions of patents with links to other citing patents as well as to publications and supporting grants.
158m patents from 234 countries

Document Links

16m links to publications
278k links to grants

Links to Organizations & Researchers

27m links to researchers
371k links to funders
69m links to assignees

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Sara Rouhi

“PLOS relies on Dimensions for baseline data about institutions and their funding sources for agreement discussions but also for internal business analytics”


SARA ROUHI, PLOS

AIDAN MORRISON

With Dimensions, I don’t waste my time clicking through and switching between databases to find the answers to my questions


AIDAN MORRISON, EMERALD PUBLISHING

Donna Axel

Dimensions is becoming a popular resource across campus and earns high marks for its ease-of-use


Donna Axel, University of Colorado

Aruna Rajan

Dimensions Analytics has a wider coverage than other databases in the space


Aruna Rajan, Illumina

Jenny Wooldridge

Dimensions has improved the ability of the National Physical Laboratory to do research evaluation and analysis by a factor of 10


Jenny Wooldridge, National Physical Laboratory

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