Dimensions Author Check for Government & Funders

Protect research programs with transparent, audit-ready integrity checks

Dimensions Author Check enables governments, funders, and national research organisations to safeguard research integrity and meet compliance mandates through fast, consistent researcher assessments.

Built on trusted global research data, it flags retractions, suspected papermill indicators, suspected overused phrases, and atypical collaboration networks. It provides compliance officers with audit-ready evidence to support defensible funding, reviewer, and partnership decisions.

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Meeting research integrity mandates is more complex than ever

Governments and funding bodies must demonstrate accountability and transparency across research programs. However, current assessment processes make this difficult, creating challenges such as:

Manual and inconsistent assessments: Reviewer and grantee checks often rely on self-reported CVs or basic database searches, producing incomplete or inconsistent results.
Audit and oversight gaps: Manual processes rarely generate audit-ready evidence, creating vulnerabilities during compliance reviews or public scrutiny.
Fragmented approaches: Different programs and departments apply their own criteria, preventing a standardized national integrity framework.
Increasing compliance pressure: New mandates such as NSPM-33 and equivalent national policies demand systematic, transparent researcher assessments.
Public and political scrutiny: Integrity issues can rapidly escalate into national concerns, undermining public trust in government-funded research.

Dimensions Author Check helps governments, funders, and national research organizations meet national research integrity and security mandates with transparent, scalable, and defensible assessments. It enables you to:

Reduce compliance and security risks

Detect retractions, suspected papermill indicators, suspected overused phrases, and atypical collaborations before they affect funding integrity.

Provide audit-ready evidence

Produce clear reports that withstand oversight from auditors and policy bodies.

Ensure consistent standards across agencies

Apply a unified integrity framework that promotes consistency and reduces duplication across programs.

Support confident funding decisions

Base program and partnership decisions on trusted, defensible data.

Strengthen public trust

Demonstrate proactive oversight in safeguarding taxpayer-funded research.

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

Researcher lookup: Search by name, institution, or ORCID ID to access complete profiles and publication histories.
Flagged publications: Identify works linked to retractions, suspected papermill indicators, or suspected overused phrases.
Transparency of indicators: View reasons for each flag to support informed, context-driven assessments.
Collaboration analysis: Detect unusual collaboration networks using a peer-reviewed methodology.
Trusted data foundation: Built on trusted global research data from Dimensions, enriched with datasets such as Retraction Watch and the Problematic Paper Screener.
Clear outputs: Generate concise, audit-ready reports for compliance teams, program managers, and oversight bodies.

Trusted across the global research community

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.

Governments and funding bodies are now adopting this proven approach to demonstrate compliance, standardise researcher assessments, and safeguard national research integrity, strengthening public confidence in the integrity of publicly funded research.