This presentation introduced the audience to and showed the applications of Digital Science's linked database, Dimensions. Pulling together disparate sources of scholarly profiles, grant awards, publications and citations, and resulting clinical trials, patents, or policies, Dimensions enables a university or research institution to track their institutional research progress. Heidi Becker, from Digital Science, presented on the data aggregation behind Dimensions. Dr. Robert Scott provided a use case study from the University of Georgia. Ralph O'Flinn detailed the University of Alabama at Birmingham's integration of Dimensions with their scholarly profiles system, Scholars@UAB, and gave a live demonstration of their system, including possible ways of collecting and representing the raw data from the backend of Dimensions.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.