Promoting your Research for Maximum Impact: Dimensions

Dimensions links millions of research documents and allows users to search across these and any associated metrics. There is a free account available which is beneficial to individual researchers who wish to trace the wider research impact of their works. Dimensions is not concerned with the traditional journal metrics such as journal impact factor, rather it evaluates each piece of research on its own merits, independent of where it was published.

Benefits

• Instant access to open access content via unpaywall
  • This free service locates open-access articles and presents pay walled papers that have been legally archived and are freely available on other websites
• Enhanced PDF technology via Readcube
• Possible to read the article from within Dimensions, streamlined process
• Integration with Altmetric Data
  • Provides the user with online engagement data for relevant publications, interaction on social media channels, news outlets etc.
• Metrics in real-time
• Metrics are updated daily (citations, recent citations, Altmetric attention scores)

This is the Dimensions page for Frederik Anseel, one of the authors of the sample article referred to. Notice the inclusion of:

1. Linked co-authors
2. Total number of publications identified via the web
3. Details of publications including citations, Altmetric score and where available, an open access link
4. Research categories and citation trends

All of this data can be downloaded as an Excel file for offline viewing.

Dimension data is available in several ways. Here is more information on where you can find and access this data