New tools will enable administrators and faculty to gather new insights on research activities and performance
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and Digital Science are pleased to announce a new agreement that will see Dimensions and Altmetric Explorer for Institutions rolled out across the institution. Dimensions is a research information platform that enables users to search and analyze over 128 million research documents. In addition to Dimensions, Altmetric Explorer for Institutions provides in-depth online attention data for over 9 million research outputs.
Developed in partnership with over 100 leading research organizations around the world, including representatives from EUR, Dimensions enables users to explore 4 billion+ connections between $1.3tn of grants, 360,000 clinical trials, over 90 million publications, 34 million patents, and their associated metrics. Powerful search, visualizations and reporting functionality make it easy to track research and funding trends, compare performance and research outcomes, and inform strategic planning.
Used in partnership with the Altmetric Explorer, which provides further insight into where and by whom research is being shared and discussed online, Erasmus will be able to gather a much more complete picture of the academic and broader impacts of their research and where it sits within a global context.
Speaking about the adoption of Dimensions and Altmetric within EUR, manager Research Intelligence Gert Goris commented, “Combined, Dimensions and Altmetric offer some incredibly powerful, in-depth data and analytics that will enable us to gather entirely new information. We look forward to learning more not just about our own research, but also that of other organizations around the world.”
Christian Herzog, CEO of the Data and Analytics group at Digital Science, said, “We were really pleased when EUR opted to join the Dimensions development partner program and welcomed the valuable feedback they gave throughout the process. In choosing to extend the access to both Dimensions and Altmetric across their organization they are leading the way in incorporating innovation into their research activities.”
Both products will be available via site license access to users across the organization.