Grants

How is grants data incorporated into Dimensions?
Grants data from ca. 600+ funders worldwide is provided directly by funders themselves or from public sources. Funding data often comes directly from the fu...
Wed, 30 Sep, 2020 at 3:17 PM
Why are there no grants from some research funders?
Dimensions grants database is getting larger all the time, however there are still many funders not yet included. If you would like a particular funder adde...
Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 at 1:42 PM
How is the funding amount awarded calculated across multiple currencies?
We obtain grant funding amounts in their original currencies. We then convert the original currencies in the background and the user can decide in which cur...
Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 at 1:44 PM
Why don’t all grants have complete project information?
Although we always try to include data in all fields for each grant, in some cases grants may have one or more fields of information missing from them, such...
Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 at 1:42 PM
Why do some grant pages list ‘similar grants’ and others don't?
‘Similar grants’ are identified based on the content of the abstract/summary of the grant being examined. This happens by automated extraction of noun phras...
Thu, 25 Jan, 2018 at 1:45 PM
What information does Dimensions have for each funded grant?
For the majority of grants the following data fields are included - title, abstract, funder, funding period, grant number, start date, end date, amount of ...
Fri, 16 Dec, 2022 at 2:42 AM
Is ‘current’ and ‘start’ year always a calendar year?
Yes. Although funders internally may have different ‘years’ (starting in October, or April etc.) dates found in the filters refer to calendar years only. ...
Mon, 29 Jul, 2019 at 2:27 PM
How is a publication identified as a "resulting publication" for a grant?
Links between grants and publications in Dimensions are made in two ways -  This information is provided by the grant Funder to us directly, and simply ...
Mon, 29 Jul, 2019 at 2:27 PM
How does Dimensions make the connections between funders/grants and publications?
We use different methods to connect funders or grants with publications: we extract and analyze the acknowledgements section of publications to identify ...
Mon, 29 Jul, 2019 at 2:28 PM
What is the coverage of grants data in Dimensions?
While Dimensions includes the largest (and perhaps the only global) database for awarded research grants, it is of course not possible to cover grants from ...
Wed, 31 Jan, 2024 at 4:18 AM