Resources for Publishers

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.