Dimensions is a

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s, which links grants to resulting publications,

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s and

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s. Dimensions is part of Digital Science (or Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd) a technology company with its headquarters in

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. The company focuses on strategic investments into startup companies that support the research lifecycle. Two studies published in 2021 compared Dimensions with its subscription-based commercial competitors, and both concluded that Dimensions.io provided broader temporal and publication source coverage than

Scopus Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-l ...

and Web of Science in most subject areas, and that Dimensions was closer in its coverage to free aggregation databases, such as

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and

Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes p ...

.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): 5113-5142Martín-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.

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