Dimensions is a comprehensive research intelligence database that connects academic papers, grants, patents, clinical trials, datasets, and policy documents in a unified search platform. The AI features include semantic search across 200+ million publications, automatic citation tracking, researcher profile mapping, and funding intelligence showing who funds research in specific areas. Research administrators, grants offices, academic institutions, and policy researchers use Dimensions to understand the full ecosystem around a research topic -- not just the papers, but who funded them, which patents emerged from them, what clinical trials followed, and how the research has been cited. This connected view is impossible to get from journal databases alone. Dimensions is available in a free public version and a paid analytics product for institutions. The free version provides more coverage than most academic databases, making it a go-to for literature searches. The institutional analytics product is used by universities and research funders to track the impact and connections across their research portfolios.

What the community says

Dimensions is highly regarded in academic and grants communities for the breadth of its connected research data. Grants administrators and research officers particularly value the funding intelligence that links publications to their grant sources. The free access for individual researchers is consistently praised. Based on community discussions from academic communities and LinkedIn.