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Dimensions offers an alternative way of searching for scientific information and is one of the largest multidisciplinary databases for scientific publications and research data.
Compared to Web of Science and Scopus, Dimensions is characterized by the following properties:
- It lists journal articles, preprints, books and book chapters.
- Many publication types such as working papers, reports, conference proceedings, dissertations and reviews are searched.
- Research data is extracted from data repositories and linked to the corresponding publications.
- Project funding is presented with amounts and research funder.
- Open Access publications are extracted from Unpaywall and categorized according to openness (gold, bronze, green, ..).
- Researchers are clearly identified with ORCID.
- Bibliometric data are displayed and attention is also shown with Altmetric.
- “Filter search results” (by author, title, year of publication, publication name, document type, research category, open access category).
- The abstract search offers an interesting option for very precise results.
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