Dimensions contains a network of more than 100 million records connected by billions of links. This vast information landscape supports a myriad of business and analytical needs. Making data available in ways that are useful to the research community is a key priority for the Dimensions team, so we’ve designed several API services with your needs in mind.
Analytics API
The Analytics API supports extraction of Dimensions data for use in complex analyses and visualizations or the building of analytical tools and reporting templates. The API uses an intuitive query language specifically developed for Dimensions data. You can retrieve, aggregate, and sort data from highly specific requests in a single API call. Additional services like text categorization are also available.
Runtime API
The Runtime API has been developed to support the use of Dimensions data in external search applications or other widgets. The control options for this API are less fine-grained, but it does allow an unlimited number of items to be returned per query.
CRIS API
The CRIS API is specifically designed to retrieve Dimensions data and enrichments for all internal CRIS / RIMS systems, like Symplectic Elements or Elsevier’s Pure.
Learn more
Official API Documentation
API labs @ Github
Free for scientometric research
Metrics API and Dimensions Badges
Enrich your publications with metrics and colorful Dimensions Badges, allowing your users to easily see how many citations your publications have received. The Metrics API and Dimensions Badges are free to use for non-commercial purposes.
Metrics API documentation
Dimensions Badges
User stories
How to get access
Please get in touch to discuss the best option for you. For one-off academic research projects we can also grant free access to our APIs.