Using Dimensions: Document Types

Dimensions contains a wide variety of content types. The information below is from a Dimensions support page entitled What information is included in Dimensions?

• Publications: journal articles/preprints/edited books/book chapters/monographs relating to research, indexed via Crossref, PubMed, PubMed Central, arXiv.org and more than 160 publishers directly. More information on Publications
• Data Sets: stand-alone data sets and those associated with publications, from a variety of data repositories indexed via DataCite and figshare. More information on Data Sets
• Grants: awarded grants for research projects, coming from hundreds of different funders from across the globe. More information on Grants
• Patents: patent records from IFI Claims from more than 100 countries and patent offices. More information on Patents
• Clinical Trials: clinical trial records currently coming from about a dozen registries such as ClinicalTrials.gov (United States), CHICTR (China), UMIN-CTR (Japan) and EU-CTR (European Union). More information on Clinical Trials
• Policy Documents: government guidelines, reports or white papers; publications by independent policy institutes, advisory committees on specific topics, research institutes, and international organisations.  More information on Policy Documents

You can find information on how frequently data is updated in Dimensions on this Dimensions support page.