Data science company ÜberResearch has announced that Dimensions, its global grants database for science funders now tracks research grants totalling 1 trillion US dollars. The global database consists of funds representing over 250 funding organisations, and 2.37 million funded projects.
The Dimensions database allows users to look into the future: More than $300 billion are attributed to research funds of current, active projects - allowing a clear view on the research which will be undertaken in the forthcoming years. These ongoing research projects will not be evidenced in publications for several years to come. Dimensions gives research funders and government organisations the ability to analyze the direction of scientific and academic research - providing a unique opportunity to influence the resource distribution in the research system in real time. Research organisations can get up-to-date competitive information for any other research organisation and their current R&D budget. Grants found in the database are available for users to import and assign to their ORCID record in bulk using the ÜberWizard for ORCID.
In addition to tracking the grants, ÜberResearch also streamlines the grants data into comparable formats by cleaning up all of the recipient information, disambiguating author profiles between grants and resulting publications, standardising calendars, currencies, and many other improvements to make the data interoperable for export and analysis. It also categorises the grants data using multiple global standards like the NIH's RCDC categorisation system and Australia and New Zealand's Fields of Research Coding.
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