Digital Science (or Digital Science & Research Solutions Ltd) is a technology company with its headquarters in

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. The company focuses on strategic investments into startup companies that support the research lifecycle. Overleaf is a part of Digital Science

History

Digital Science was founded in 2010. It was initially the technical division of Nature Publishing Group/ Macmillan and is now operated as an independent company by

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. They are one of the organizers of Science Foo Camp along with

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and O'Reilly. Since 2013, Digital Science has released a number of collaborative reports using data generated from their portfolio companies featured in media outlets. The company worked with

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and

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in 2015, following the inclusion of Research Impact in the

Research Excellence Framework The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a research impact evaluation of British Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It is the successor to the Research Assessment Exercise and it was first used in 2014 to assess the period 2008–2013. REF is ...

(REF), to analyse the results and provide access to the case studies to the public. Digital Science launched a Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) for identifying research institutions around the world in 2015. Through the Digital Science Catalyst Grant the company has supported a number of early-stage ideas such as Nutonian, TetraScience and Penelope as well as community schemes including Ada Lovelace Day. In 2013 it invested in UberResearch which launched " Dimensions" in 2016, a searchable database of research funds. On 15 January 2018, Digital Science re-launched an extended version of Dimensions, a commercial scholarly search platform that allows to search publications, datasets, grants, patents and clinical trials. The free version of the platform allows searching for publications and datasets only. Several studies published in 2021 compared Dimensions with its subscription-based commercial competitors, and unanimously found that Dimensions.ai provides broader temporal and publication source coverage than

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and

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in most subject areas, and that Dimensions is closer in its coverage to free aggregation databases, such as The Lens and

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. Singh, V. K., P. Singh, M. Karmakar, J. Leta and P. Mayr (2021). "The journal coverage of Web of Science, Scopus and Dimensions: A comparative analysis." Scientometrics 126(6): 5113-5142 Martín-Martín, A., M. Thelwall, E. Orduna-Malea and E. Delgado López-Cózar (2021). "Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Scopus, Dimensions, Web of Science, and OpenCitations’ COCI: a multidisciplinary comparison of coverage via citations." Scientometrics 126(1): 871-906 As of October 2021, Dimensions.ai covers nearly 106 million publications with over 1.2 billion citations.

Key people

* From 2010 to 2015, Timo Hannay was Managing Director * From 2013 to 2015, Amy Brand held the role of VP academic & research relations before moving to become Director of

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. * From 2015 to present, Daniel W. Hook acts as Chief Executive Office

Catalyst Grant Winners

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History

Key people

Catalyst Grant Winners

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