Digital Science (or Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd) is a technology company with its headquarters in
London,
United Kingdom.
The company focuses on strategic investments into startup companies that support the research lifecycle.
History
Digital Science was founded in 2010. It was initially the technical division of
Nature Publishing Group/
Macmillan
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and is now operated as an independent company by
Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. They are one of the organizers of
Science Foo Camp along with
Nature,
Google and
O'Reilly.
Since 2013, Digital Science has released a number of collaborative reports using data generated from their portfolio companies featured in media outlets. The company worked with
HEFCE
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom, which was responsible for the distribution of funding for higher education to universities and further education colleges in Engla ...
and
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
in 2015, following the inclusion of Research Impact in the
Research Excellence Framework (REF), to analyse the results and provide access to the case studies to the public.
Digital Science launched a
Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) for identifying research institutions around the world in 2015. Through the Digital Science Catalyst Grant the company has supported a number of early-stage ideas such as
Nutonian, TetraScience and Penelope as well as community schemes including
Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day is an annual event held on the second Tuesday of October to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields. It is named after mathematician and computer science pioneer Ada Lovelace. It started in 20 ...
.
In 2013 it invested in UberResearch which launched "
Dimensions" in 2016, a searchable database of research funds.
On 15 January 2018, Digital Science re-launched an extended version of Dimensions, a commercial scholarly search platform that allows to search publications, datasets, grants, patents and clinical trials. The free version of the platform allows searching for publications and datasets only.
Several studies published in 2021 compared Dimensions with its subscription-based commercial competitors, and unanimously found that Dimensions.ai provides broader temporal and publication source coverage than
Scopus and
Web of Science in most subject areas, and that Dimensions is closer in its coverage to free aggregation databases, such as
Lens and
Google Scholar.
[ Singh, V. K., P. Singh, M. Karmakar, J. Leta and P. Mayr (2021). "The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A comparative analysis." Scientometrics 126(6): 5113-5142 ] [ Martín-Martín, A., M. Thelwall, E. Orduna-Malea and E. Delgado López-Cózar (2021). "Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations." Scientometrics 126(1): 871-906 ]
As of October 2021, Dimensions.ai covers nearly 106 million publications with over 1.2 billion citations.
Key people
* From 2010 to 2015,
Timo Hannay
(Robert) Timo Hannay (born 1968) is the founding Managing Director of School Dash Limited, an education technology company based in London. Prior to SchoolDash, Hannay was the founding managing director of Digital Science in London, United Kingdom ...
was Managing Director
* From 2013 to 2015,
Amy Brand held the role of VP academic & research relations before moving to become Director of
MIT Press.
* From 2015 to present,
Daniel W. Hook
Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew language, Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel (given ...
acts as Chief Executive Office
Catalyst Grant Winners
See also
*
List of academic databases and search engines
This article contains a representative list of notable databases and search engines useful in an academic setting for finding and accessing articles in academic journals, institutional repositories, archives, or other collections of scientific and ...
References
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Software companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in the London Borough of Islington
British companies established in 2010
Investment companies of the United Kingdom