Featured Resource: New agile methods to extract deeper knowledge

Find out how we provide an open and iterative approach by connecting our tools with those of the research community. We develop special functions within a matter of days allowing you to implement a search strategy, connect with a diverse range of data sources and so much more.

Providing valuable data on funding flows for market model development

Find out how Illumina uses Dimensions to understand trends in academic funding, KOL identification and to find leads for sales.

Getting started with Dimensions L&C

In this video learn how to run semantic search in Dimensions L&C to get a list of precise and comprehensive results. We will also explore the ontological tree within Dimensions L&C, which contains over 40 million concepts related to life sciences and chemistry, and finally we will see a quick overview of the analytical and search tools Dimensions L&C has to offer.

Generate insights quicker using Co-occurrence Analysis

In this video learn how to run a Co-occurrence Analysis in Dimensions L&C, a powerful tool which enables you to generate insights from millions of scientific documents within seconds. We will explore general and specific use cases for this function to enable you to get the most out of Dimensions L&C.

Understand disease mechanisms

In this video learn how to use “co-occurrence analysis” in Dimensions L&C to get a better understanding of disease mechanisms. We will generate insights from hundreds of millions of scientific documents by correlating a disease with semantic concepts – such as signalling pathways, genes & proteins and pathophysiological processes – to quickly generate hypotheses on disease mechanisms, which is an important first step in drug target identification and the drug development process in general.

Understand drug candidate mechanisms of action

In this video learn how to use “chemistry search” to discover chemical compounds similar to your drug candidate or containing a specific chemical substructure of your interest. We will run a comprehensive search to identify documents, such as patents, publications, grants and clinical trials, that mention relevant compounds and apply a powerful semantic concepts extraction analysis to generate insights on the compounds’ mechanisms of action and therapeutic applications.

Clarify the mechanism of action

To select the best therapeutic application for repositioning a known drug or avoid undesirable adverse events for novel compounds, it is critical to have a clear understanding how the drug or compound works.  

To uncover these insights, you need to find and analyze all information available on a drug/compound or those similar to it. The powerful semantic search of Dimensions L&C allows you to search through 40 million concepts, including new compounds, approved drugs, genes, and proteins alongside chemistry search and co-occurrence analysis.  This enables you to identify more relevant documents and gain deeper insights about drug and compound connections to proteins, disease, signalling pathways, pathophysiology, and toxicities.

Analyze disease mechanisms

Understanding target and disease biology is crucial for success when bringing a new drug to market. However, the data supporting this understanding is spread across hundreds of thousands and millions of scientific documents, including publications, patents, grants, and clinical trials.  Dimensions L&C provides a powerful semantic search with up to 40 million concepts that incorporate genes,  proteins and diseases, derived from hundreds of millions of scientific documents, together with co-occurrence analysis.

This enables you to quickly discover more relevant documents and gain deeper insights regarding disease mechanisms and the connections between diseases, proteins, signalling pathways, and biological processes in a real-time.

Identify drug targets

Identification of a “right” drug target is a critical step in drug development that helps to avoid later stage failures of drug candidates in clinical trials. To make an evidence-based decision on drug targets, a compilation and analysis of multiple scientific documents are required.

Dimensions L&C provides a powerful semantic search of up to 40 million concepts, including genes & proteins, diseases and corporate information, together with co-occurrence analysis. This enables you to rapidly discover more relevant documents and gain deeper insights as to potential drug targets and their connections to diseases, drugs, biological and pathological processes, and commercial potential in a real time.

Driving Innovation & Collaboration Across Boehringer Ingelheim

In this case study, Dr. Karlheinz Spenny and his team at the SIC share what triggered their internal innovation campaign to move from their legacy literature management solution to the Enterprise edition of ReadCube and their experiences along the way.

What’s inside:

• Factors driving the switch from BI’s legacy literature management/citation tool
• Why BI chose Papers Enterprise
• Preparing for & managing change through transition
• The rollout & reactions
• Standout features
• Reflections post-deployment

Navigating Networks Of Oncology Biomarkers 

Using large-scale analytics of published literature, biomarkers across six cancer types were successfully characterized in terms of their emergence in the published literature and the context in which they are described.

This novel approach could help identify biomarkers and biomarker panels, which may be otherwise missed through traditional search methods, for expert review and exploration in a clinical setting.

Landscape analysis 

Research is continually evolving and dynamics within and between fields change constantly. Landscape assessments ensure you understand the lay of the land and are prepared to adapt to change. Our analysts use Dimensions to help you:

• Identify major global research areas.
• Understand how scientific fields are changing. 
• Assess emerging trends within a specific field of study. 
• Recognize the experts in these fields.

Enhancing your Gap Analysis with Machine Enhanced Literature Retrieval

Dimensions data can be used to enhance your literature gap analysis. Dimensions is particularly suitable for performing literature gap analyses on a large scale, combining standard abstract searches with high precision full-text queries and subsequent aggregation. This allows creating heat maps on numbers of publications for combinations of terms, e.g., drugs versus adverse events, with the option to directly view the set of publications for a particular combination. Such an approach takes minutes to run and can be repeated to track changes over time.

Real word databases identification 

While real-world databases are of increasing interest to researchers, there is no comprehensive dataset listing all real-world databases. We have created an algorithm which finds publications presenting real-world databases:

• Several search methods were applied to select articles which present research using real world databases
• Publications were identified which were frequently cited by the above articles, to arrive at the initial publications announcing real world databases
• With this approach the number of known real world databases could be doubled

How to Run Your Biotech R&D Virtually

Hire more people, take your groundbreaking data and hit milestones in just 3 steps! We provide a suite of research solutions to hire, store and share data across your companies to make your research efficient and cost-effective. Anyone working in a lab will benefit from this session.

Pinpointing Global Expertise In Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Disease types associated with NAFLD present a tremendous research and development challenge for life sciences organizations and also a great opportunity for them to create value and innovation. Find out how Digital Science offers the data capabilities to help you uncover insights and expertise in disease-related topics and key indication areas.

Identifying Global Expertise in CAR-T-time data

Digital Science offers data capabilities and the connected data to help life science organizations understand the Car-T research and development landscape. Find out how Digital Science offers the data capabilities to help you uncover insights and expertise in disease-related topics and key indication areas.

Measuring the value of medical affairs

As a medical affairs professional or publications planner in the pharmaceutical industry, we understand that you need to demonstrate the impact of the work you do. Download our whitepaper today to find out how altmetrics can help you.

Get better insights for medical affairs

Spend less time searching for the right information and more time acting on it. Dimensions is a comprehensive discovery and analytics platform with millions of data points, and an ideal information source for medical affairs professionals. 

Finding the right experts just got easier

Since finding KOLs is a frequently performed and important activity, the Dimensions team created a new tool that makes it even easier. It features a simple and intuitive user interface that accesses all of the data Dimensions has to offer. 

How to improve your academic writing

Academic texts follow their own structure and style, and getting good at writing them requires practice. Not sure how to do it? We give you five tips in this blog post. These are mostly habits; do them regularly and you’ll improve your writing – you’ll see.

Learn LaTeX in 30 minutes

In this guide, we hope to give you your first introduction to LATEX. The guide does not require you to have any prior knowledge of LATEX, but by the time you are finished, you will have written your first LaTeX document, and hopefully will have a good knowledge of some of the basic functions provided by LATEX.

Disseminating and tracking research using altmetrics data

A senior Lecturer in Pedagogy at Loughborough University talks about how he uses Altmetric data to disseminate and track his work, and why this is a necessity when having research published in an online journal.

Analyse research in context of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Emerald Publishing subscribed to Digital Science’s Dimensions Analytics and API in the summer of 2018. A year and a half later, a few key Emerald colleagues took the time to share with us how Dimensions data have become critical in their day-to-day work.

Finding formal alternatives to informal words

Informal language is a no go in academic writing. It’s best to avoid words or phrases like nice, weird, and lots of,and to use formal alternatives instead. But how do you find these? Read on to see how Writefull helps.

Academic writing tips in times of anxiety

Doing research in anxious times can itself be difficult, and many researchers find themselves struggling to sustain the focus and concentration required to write academic papers. Read on for our three tips on how to keep going.

Common ESL errors in academic writing

This blog is the second in a series on the topic of common ESL errors in academic writing, and looks at errors in the use of articles.

Make data-driven R&D decisions

Watch the recording to learn how Dimensions data can be used to answer questions in a matter of minutes.

Inform your research strategy with new, game-changing insights

Watch our webinar to learn how to use grants, patents, clinical trials, and publications for new and deeper insights about your research and its environment. Make your analyses tell you more – with the data in Dimensions you can get richer insights into competition, collaboration, disciplines, or impact.

Real-Time bibliometrics

The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted a different set of needs to analyze trends in scholarship as they occur: Real-time bibliometrics. Dimensions offer a combination of full-text search, daily data updates, a broad set of scholarly objects including pre-prints and a wider set of data fields for analysis, broadens opportunities for a different style of analysis.

FAIR open data

Our solutions go beyond making data open, to making data FAIR with enhanced discoverability and reusability, including the ability to customize metadata and curation workflows for your needs. Our administrative portal provides the necessary capabilities for all considerations of research data management curation, workflow, and reporting.

A Guide to the Dimensions Data Approach

A collaborative approach to creating a modern infrastructure for data describing research: where we are and where we want to take it

Creating workflows to support “as open as possible, as closed as necessary”

Whilst the mantra of our “free forever” product figshare.com remains, “As open as possible,” we understand things can be more complex for our Figshare users.

Showcase the reach and influence of your research

Altmetric tracks scholarly and public engagement with research in real-time – making it easy to see where it’s attracting attention online.

Complementary tools to tell the story of your research

Using Altmetric in tandem with existing media monitoring services provides a
more robust process for capturing the detail of the conversation around your
research, and celebrating your successes with a broader audience.

Compare your portfolio with that of other funders

Watch this webinar to learn how Dimensions deep data discovery can be used to access scientific and technical data across a networked view of global research information.

Grow your research portfolio

Find out how Dimensions is used to inform strategic planning for the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s research portfolio.

Reproducibility by design

Reproducibility should be a natural and integral part of the research process – embedded and invisible wherever possible. We are committed to supporting you on your path to a more open and reproducible research through the development and implementation of technological solutions.

Inform funding strategy

In this webinar, we’ll show you how to leverage Dimensions grant and patent data to help assess funding trends in varying fields, disciplines and topics, identify collaborators to help broaden potential sources of funding, surface corporate entities suitable for partnership, collaboration and investment and so much more!

Track publications around the SDGs

Erasmus University Rotterdam uses Dimensions to support their new strategic initiative to make a positive societal impact through research, as measured by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Validate Open Access agreements

In this case study, we share what role transformative and Open Access publishing agreements have in the evolution to Open Access, and how PLOS relies on Dimensions data to uniquely inform their related strategies. If are you interested in learning how Dimensions can benefit your organization? Please contact us and we’ll be in touch soon.

Understand, evaluate and predict future strategies and trends

This case study describes how SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, uses Dimensions on a day-to-day basis to support SPIE in their strategic thinking and planning for the future. Are you interested in learning how Dimensions can benefit your organization? Contact us and we’ll be in touch soon.

Identifying reviewers, growing markets & Open Access trends

Emerald Publishing subscribed to Digital Science’s Dimensions Analytics and API in the summer of 2018. A year and a half later, a few key Emerald colleagues took the time to share with us how Dimensions data have become critical in their day-to-day work.

Showcasing the impact of publications

Cambridge University Press uses Altmetric to showcase the attention around Elements to current authors, prospective authors, library subscribers and potential indexing partners. With the data they are able to demonstrate the engagement and influence of such a new product helps to establish it within the scholarly space.

Offer enhanced reporting to authors

IntechOpen is using Altmetric to offer enhanced reporting to authors, which they, in turn, can use for grant applications, career progression, and internal reviews. In this case-study take a look at how they also use Altmetric is used to inform marketing campaigns and identify cutting edge topics.

Demonstrating value for funding

Michigan Publishing saw that incorporating Altmetric data across their platforms provided valuable feedback for their authors, as well as data that could be used to report on the reach and influence of their publishing activity internally.

Improve discovery

The journal and e-book content of the Royal Society of Chemistry has been indexed in ReadCube Discover. More than 350,000 articles were assembled for indexing, covering backfile content stretching back to 1841. This case study outlines the impact of ReadCube on the research workflow and how it enabled researchers to discover new science – and annotate it. In doing this, the ReadCube.

Finding COVID-19 grant application reviewers using Dimensions data

This case study describes why and how the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) from University of Florida used Dimensions to find reviewers for COVID-19 grant applications.

The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network uses Figshare to store and share its videos

Figshare is able to guarantee a permanent electronic location for CTSNet’s exceptional content. The CTSNet editorial team wanted to “journalize” CTSNet’s video publications to make them more discoverable and citable within a scholarly environment.

A Closer Look at Taylor & Francis’s Data Policy

Taylor & Francis have released a set of five data sharing policies across their publications. Find out how authors submitting to a journal with a data policy are supported.

Cambridge University Press trials Writefull to expedite COVID-19 research

COVID-19 research is timely, and needs be published with as little delay as possible. To this end, Cambridge University Press (CUP) and Writefull have set up a collaboration. Authors submitting COVID-19-related manuscripts to several relevant journals are invited to use Writefull.