A new era of Research Security
Universities are entering a critical phase where research security risks are escalating. From undisclosed dual affiliations to complex foreign funding relationships, government oversight is tightening – and the stakes have never been higher.
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Are you ready to protect your institution’s reputation and secure its future?
The threats are real. They can arise from past collaborations, affiliations with sanctioned entities, or financial ties to high-risk institutions. As governments adopt a zero-tolerance stance, safeguarding national educational, cultural, and security interests demands complete transparency over foreign funds flowing into research.
Are you ready to protect your institution’s reputation and secure its future?
Failure to disclose foreign ties can have serious consequences
Despite existing laws requiring reporting of foreign funding, a growing number of universities are receiving fines for failing to disclose significant amounts, hiding the true sources and purposes of funds.
The University of Delaware recently paid over $700,000 to settle False Claims Act violations related to a researcher’s undisclosed affiliations and funding from Chinese entities.
The Guardian reported that the University of Houston was one of a few universities to collaborate with an Iranian university on research an expert described as potentially ‘very dangerous’.
Stay ahead of disclosure challenges
Your funding and reputation depend on clear oversight of your researchers’ global connections. Dimensions Research Security offers the only comprehensive solution that provides a full picture of international affiliations, collaborations, and funding relationships – critical for meeting tightening disclosure requirements.
Powered by the world’s largest collection of interconnected global research data, Dimensions Research Security enables you to:
- Accurately map global researcher networks
- Identify potential research security risks
- Verify disclosures and affiliations
- Maintain audit-ready records for compliance
Uncover hidden research risks
- Leverage comprehensive global data to reveal hard-to-find connections.
- Identify dual affiliations with institutions in high-risk regions and links to foreign talent programs.
- Detect affiliations with institutions backed by foreign military interests.
- Trace dual affiliations in publications and uncover hidden funding sources.
- Examine funded research cited in patents and clinical trials to spotlight potential compliance risks.
- Proactively identify concerns, including ties to institutions in countries of interest (e.g., China, Iran), connections to sanctioned entities, and undisclosed foreign collaborations.
Thoroughly vet researchers
- Identify undisclosed collaborations or international funding sources.
- Surface international collaborations on publications and grants while reviewing past and current affiliations.
- Analyze international funders acknowledged in researchers’ outputs.
Dimensions has become the cornerstone of our workflow to understand the extent of foreign influence at our institutions… Processes that took us hours to complete in the past can now be done in just minutes with much greater fidelity
Chief Research Security Officer | University System Office
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