Karolinska Institutet (KI), a globally recognized medical university, has transformed how it manages and shares research information by adopting an integrated solution powered by Symplectic Elements and Figshare. These tools have enabled KI to streamline administrative processes, improve research visibility, and advance open science initiatives in alignment with its Strategy 2030 vision.
A Centralized Research Ecosystem: KI has unified research information across departments, leveraging Symplectic Elements (known internally as KI RIMS) for streamlined data management and Figshare for open access archiving.
Boosting Research Visibility: By integrating with KI’s public website, researcher profiles and group pages are dynamically updated, allowing external collaborators, funding bodies, and the global research community to easily discover expertise and ongoing projects.
Supporting Open Science Initiatives: KI Open Archive (powered by Figshare) simplifies the process of sharing research outputs, ensuring compliance with open access policies while supporting the FAIR principles of data management.
Reducing Administrative Overhead: Automated data integrations pull in information from HR systems, publication databases, and grant records, significantly minimizing the manual workload for researchers and administrative staff.
Access to Altmetric and Dimensions data is now boosted with Dimensions on BigQuery for researchers in the scientometrics field
Tuesday 22 July 2025
Digital Science today reaffirms its commitment to supporting the global scientometric research community and the study of scholarly literature, by relaunching its ScientometricResearcherAccess to Data (SRAD) program.
This revitalized initiative will offer scientometric researchers streamlined, no-cost access to Digital Science’s Altmetric and Dimensions data, and is now further expanded by offering access to Dimensions on BigQuery.
The SRAD program is available to scientometrics researchers involved in non-commercial scientometric studies, empowering them to more easily answer system-wide research questions about scholarly literature and its impact.
To lead this important effort and build a thriving global community of expert users, Digital Science has appointed Kathryn Weber-Boer to the position of Director Scientometrics – Scientometric Researcher Engagement. Ms Weber-Boer brings deep expertise in scientometrics, academic engagement, and advanced analytics.
Ms Weber-Boer said: “This program plays an important role in Digital Science’s commitment to open research and improving research. I am honoured to be in the position of driving strategic outreach, program design, and community leadership, to help researchers maximize the impact of Digital Science tools.
“By expanding access to Dimensions on GBQ, we’re excited to enable scientometrics researchers to answer complex questions with big data, exploring and linking more datapoints, and connecting our world-leading Dimensions data to other open datasets.
“The SRAD program is built around key principles of accessibility, responsible data use, and community empowerment. Through tailored training and dynamic community engagement, it’s our hope that we can contribute to driving innovation in the fields of Scientometrics, Research Policy, and Innovation Studies,” she said.
Part of Digital Science, Dimensions hosts the largest collection of interconnected global research data, re-imagining research discovery with access to grants, publications, clinical trials, patents and policy documents all in one place. Follow Dimensions on Bluesky, X and LinkedIn.
About Altmetric
Altmetric is a leading provider of alternative research metrics, helping everyone involved in research gauge the impact of their work. We serve diverse markets including universities, institutions, government, publishers, corporations, and those who fund research. Our powerful technology searches thousands of online sources, revealing where research is being shared and discussed. Teams can use our powerful Altmetric Explorer application to interrogate the data themselves, embed our dynamic ‘badges’ into their webpages, or get expert insights from Altmetric’s consultants. Altmetric is part of the Digital Science group, dedicated to making the research experience simpler and more productive by applying pioneering technology solutions. Find out more at altmetric.com and follow @altmetric on X and @altmetric.com on Bluesky.
About Digital Science
Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, metaphacts, OntoChem, Overleaf, ReadCube, Symplectic, and Writefull – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit digital-science.com and follow Digital Science on Bluesky, on X or on LinkedIn.
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David Ellis, Press, PR & Social Manager, Digital Science: Mobile +61 447 783 023, d.ellis@digital-science.com
Scholarly publishers can now fully integrate research integrity checks into their editorial and submission workflows, thanks to Digital Science’s new Dimensions Author Check API, which launches today.
Built on Dimensions – the world’s largest interconnected global research database – Dimensions Author Check evaluates researchers’ publication and collaboration histories within seconds, delivering reliable, concise, structured insights.
For the first time, the new Dimensions Author Check API enables publishers to embed this functionality directly into their own workflows, without the need to switch to an outside platform.
Dr Leslie McIntosh, Vice President of Research Integrity at Digital Science, said Dimensions Author Check API is designed to support consistent and confident editorial decision-making.
“By highlighting key indicators of research integrity – such as retractions, tortured phrases, or unusual co-authorship patterns – the Dimensions Author Check API helps to rapidly identify potential issues for concern. These include continuously improving indicators that will identify paper mills and increase trust in science,” Dr McIntosh said.
“Importantly, the Author Check API can do this at scale, giving publishers the ability to screen multiple researchers per request. This makes it ideal for high-volume manuscript processing and broader editorial oversight.”
Key benefits of the new Dimensions Author Check API include:
Seamless integration: A standards-based RESTful API designed for easy deployment within publishers’ internal systems or third-party platforms.
Actionable insights: Clear summaries highlighting key aspects of researchers’ publication and collaboration histories.
Operational efficiency: Reducing editorial workload while enhancing the quality and consistency of integrity assessments.
Support for transparency and trust: Surfacing critical integrity information at key decision points, strengthening publishers’ ability to adhere to ethical standards.
Part of Digital Science, Dimensions hosts the largest collection of interconnected global research data, re-imagining research discovery with access to grants, publications, clinical trials, patents and policy documents all in one place. Follow Dimensions on Bluesky, X and LinkedIn.
About Digital Science
Digital Science is an AI-focused technology company providing innovative solutions to complex challenges faced by researchers, universities, funders, industry and publishers. We work in partnership to advance global research for the benefit of society. Through our brands – Altmetric, Dimensions, Figshare, IFI CLAIMS Patent Services, metaphacts, OntoChem, Overleaf, ReadCube, Symplectic, and Writefull – we believe when we solve problems together, we drive progress for all. Visit digital-science.com and follow Digital Science on Bluesky, on X or on LinkedIn.
Media contact
David Ellis, Press, PR & Social Manager, Digital Science: Mobile +61 447 783 023, d.ellis@digital-science.com
Executive Order 14303 requires every federal research agency to document reproducibility, transparency, and COI management—by August 22, 2025.
Digital Science solutions give you the platforms and insights to address these demands confidently.
Your guide to transparent, connected data
Dimensions is a powerful platform that uniquely and transparently facilitates data collection and analysis, providing access to grants, the publications that they funded, the supporting research data and analytics tools that can efficiently gather and report on this data.
What you’ll learn in our EO 14303 Readiness Guide:
How to detect hidden COIs across publications, grants and patents
How to build audit-ready, transparent reports
Download the Preparing for EO 14303 guide
Your mission demands integrity, EO 14303 requires it.
We believe it is the role of Digital Science to help the scientometrics community access information it needs to develop open, transparent research indicators. In Barcelona: A beautiful horizon, our CEO Daniel Hook describes the history and vision of this commitment. Researchers can use Altmetric and Dimensions data to study how research is funded, communicated, commercialized, and how it makes an impact in the world.
At Digital Science, our belief is that by taking risks, being innovative and pushing boundaries, so that clients gain real value and significant benefit from our offerings, there should be an opportunity for an appropriate return on investment.”
Daniel Hook
CEO, Digital Science
Through the Scientometric Researcher Access to Data (SRAD) program, we offer no-cost access to Altmetric and Dimensions for non-commercial scientometric research projects, through which you will get access to the Altmetric Explorer, Dimensions Analytics, our APIs (Altmetric Explorer API, Altmetric Details Page API, and the Dimensions Analytics API) and we are now expanding research to Dimensions data by offering access to the Dimensions on Google BigQuery (GBQ) dataset through Google’s Analytics Hub.
Expanding access
By expanding access to the Dimensions on GBQ, we are excited to facilitate researchers in answering complex questions with big data, making connections between more data points, and connecting Dimensions data to other open datasets!
Access supports university-affiliated scientometrics researchers with clearly defined research projects, aiming for published results. Scientometric research involves the quantitative study of science, technology, and innovation. It aims to measure and evaluate the impact, patterns and trends in scientific research and its influence across disciplines and institutions. We also welcome projects that support the development, testing, or comparison of bibliometric or scientometric indicators. Innovative research is particularly encouraged; duplicative research questions are not (with the exception of replication studies, which are encouraged). Access is not intended for use in commercial products, for self assessment, or non-scientometric research.
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Special consideration is given for International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics members and associates of the Research on Research Institute.
In addition to access, scientometric researchers meet monthly to share information about Digital Science datasets (Altmetric & Dimensions), access methods (APIs, BigQuery, Google Analytics Hub), and using these data to study science.
For information on how we process personal information, please refer to the Dimensions privacy policy. Email addresses are used to monitor usage and ensure compliance with terms of use. See our Terms and Conditions to learn more.
For years, research has shown that inclusive datasets like Dimensions are essential for understanding the global research landscape, whether the interest is open access measurement or publishing diversity. We are proud to make these data available for the study of science.
Results
We are proud of the results achieved by using our data, which include the following output:
Articles
Scientific elite revisited: patterns of productivity, collaboration, authorship and impact | get article
Scale-free growth in regional scientific capacity building explains long-term scientific dominance | get article
Journal editors’ views on altmetrics in tourism and hospitality research | get article
A multiple linear regression analysis to measure the journal contribution to the social attention of research | get article
Journal editors’ views on altmetrics in tourism and hospitality research | get article
Preprints
Unveiling tortured phrases in humanities and social sciences | get preprint
