Dimensions gives academic research leaders and grants managers an unrivaled view of the funding landscape, so they can make decisions that will shape a successful future.

The future of your academic institution depends on securing funds for your research projects. But as the pace of science accelerates, you face stiff competition for these funds.

To compete for funding successfully, you need to track down relevant opportunities, navigate the funding landscape, identify emerging fields and make compelling grant proposals that stand out from the crowd.

The funding landscape is fragmented, overwhelming, and difficult to navigate. But Dimensions makes it much easier.

The world’s largest linked research database joins the dots across the whole research landscape from idea to impact – including publications, data sets, awarded grants, patents records, policy documents, and much more.

The integrated AI and at-a-glance visualizations make it quick and easy to find and evaluate the data you need to identify the best funding opportunities and demonstrate your research impact.

And with access to unique grant data covering over $2.6 trillion in globally-funded grant information, you can make data-informed decisions that will shape a successful future.

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Just some of what you can do with Dimensions…

Understand the funding landscape

Gain access to extensive, interconnected data across grants, publications, clinical trials, patents, datasets, and policy documents. You’ll gain valuable insights to help you navigate the funding process and diversify your funding portfolios.

Improve funding success

Discover funding trends and see where peer institutions’ funding comes from, easily and at speed.

Identify relevant funding based on the amount of grants related to a search or area versus the funder’s total budget. Break down contributions to funding and impact goals by field and level of researcher seniority. Get an overview of grants awarded by the funder and the amount, and see the outcomes of the grant in publications, patents, clinical trials or third-party citations.

Attract and retain top talent

Attract high-caliber researchers by showcasing your funding success. You can discover high-performing candidates worldwide based on funding amounts or number of grants in relevant areas, by analyzing research concepts or fields of research that have been added to the grant data through AI enrichment.

Armed with these insights, you can:

  • Make more compelling grant proposals
  • Decide where to focus your application efforts
  • Find out what funding is available in your field and rank potential funders
  • Identify your competitors and gauge your competitive strength
  • Forecast what’s around the corner and conduct easy gap analysis to make data-led decisions

Talk to us and learn how we can help your institution

Dimensions is the leading source of insight for university leaders. And it’s refreshingly simple to use. To find out how it can benefit your specific institution, just contact us and we’ll be in touch.