Technology company Digital Science has released a report highlighting the growth in research around the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The report Contextualising Sustainable Development Research, which was produced by Digital Science’s Consultancy Group, looks at the state of the world’s research on the UN’s SDG’s. It finds that more than 500,000 publications were published in 2019 relating to the 17 SDGs, constituting around 10 percent of the world’s total research output. This is three times the percentage produced in 2000 when the UN introduced the Millenium Development Goals, the predecessors of the SDGs.
The SDGs recognise that ending poverty and other imbalances in society and the relationship with the natural environment must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while tackling climate change and working to preserve oceans and forests. Digital Science’s Consultancy group used the Dimensions platform to analyse research data on the SDGs.
The report follows Digital Science’s release of an SDG classification system in its Dimensions platform in March 2020. Research into such areas is critical to help transform the world and each development goal has a list of targets which are measured with indicators. Dimensions users (including free version) can now filter this research in the publications content type.
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