Dimensions Author Check for Academic institutions

Safeguard your institution’s reputation with fast, consistent integrity checks

Dimensions Author Check helps universities safeguard their reputation and meet funder expectations through clear, standardised researcher assessments. Built on comprehensive global research data, it flags retractions, suspected papermill indicators, suspected overused phrases, and unusual collaboration patterns.

This gives integrity officers and research leaders transparent, evidence-based insights to make confident decisions on hiring, promotion, and collaboration.

Ensuring research integrity is harder than ever

Universities face increasing pressure to ensure research integrity in every hiring, promotion, and collaboration decision. However, existing assessment processes make this difficult, leading to challenges such as:

Manual and inconsistent checks: Reliance on Google searches, ORCID, or Clarivate IDs is time-consuming and often produces inconsistent or incomplete results.
Reputation challenges: Appointing or promoting researchers later associated with retractions or suspected papermill indicators can undermine trust with funders, peers, and students.
Fragmented processes: Without a standardized approach, departments apply different criteria, creating gaps in oversight and accountability.
Limited resources: Integrity teams must meet growing demands under tighter budgets, but some new tools only serve to complicate their work.

Dimensions Author Check helps universities protect their reputation and strengthen academic decision-making with fast, transparent integrity checks. It enables you to:

Safeguard research integrity

Detect retractions, suspected papermill indicators, suspected overused phrases, and unusual collaboration networks at the researcher level.

Make confident academic decisions

Use transparent, evidence-based insights to guide hiring, promotion, and collaboration decisions.

Streamline integrity workflows

Generate clear reports that integrity officers, librarians, and research offices can act on quickly

Protect your institution’s credibility

Meet funder integrity expectations with transparent, defensible assessments.

Dimensions Author Check combines trusted data with intuitive tools to deliver transparent, defensible researcher assessments.

Researcher lookup: Search by name, institution, or ORCID ID to instantly access complete profiles and publication histories.
Flagged publications: Identify papers linked to retractions, suspected papermill indicators, or suspected overused phrases.
Transparency of indicators: View the reason behind each flag to support informed, context-aware assessments.
Collaboration analysis: Detect unusual collaboration networks using a peer-reviewed methodology.
Trusted data foundation: Built on the Dimensions database and enhanced with external datasets such as Retraction Watch and the Problematic Paper Screener.
Clear, shareable outputs: Produce concise reports for integrity officers, librarians, research offices, and compliance teams.
Extension of Research Security: Extends the Dimensions Research Security framework to the level of individual researcher assessments.

Trusted by leading institutions

Dimensions Author Check is built on the same data and integrity standards relied on by leading publishers including SPIE, Cambridge University Press, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and SAGE Publishing.

Universities and research organizations are adopting the same proven approach to strengthen transparency, meet funder integrity expectations, and uphold the integrity of their research environments.