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Digital Science launched the Dimensions Research Security API, allowing research institutions and government agencies to integrate research security checks into their workflows. Built on the Dimensions database, the API helps compliance teams identify potential concerns like undisclosed affiliations or sensitive funding. It strengthens research security oversight, enabling efficient review of researchers and collaborators. The API facilitates large-scale queries, streamlines workflows, and integrates insights with other data sources. This aims to improve transparency and collaboration between funders and institutions, mitigating risks and proactively detecting potential issues.
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Research institutions and government agencies can now fully integrate research security checks and compliance into their workflows, with the launch of Digital Science’s Dimensions Research Security API.
Built on Digital Science’s Dimensions – the world’s largest interconnected global research database – the Dimensions Research Security API offers universities and government agencies a way to integrate research security oversight into their internal systems.
The Dimensions Research Security API helps compliance teams quickly identify potential areas of concern – such as undisclosed affiliations, sensitive funding sources, or collaborations that may require further investigation.
Digital Science’s VP of Research Integrity and Security, Leslie McIntosh, said: “Institutions globally are under increasing pressure to enforce safeguards around research security, protect intellectual property, manage conflicts of interest, and comply with evolving government regulation.
“Since we launched the initial version of Dimensions Research Security just two years ago, it’s proven to be of immense value to universities and government agencies alike, including agencies protecting U.S. research. Our new API will strengthen research security oversight at scale, enabling the review of researchers and collaborators, with structured data that supports efficient workflows.
Digital Science’s VP of Research Security & Intelligence, Mark Franco, added: “Dimensions Research Security (DRS) has significantly improved how funding agencies and universities identify and address potential research security risks in line with current regulations.
“By increasing transparency, DRS fosters strong collaboration between funders and institutions, helping them not only mitigate risks but also engage and educate researchers when discrepancies arise in self-disclosure forms.
“For investigative and oversight agencies, DRS enables proactive detection of risks, such as undisclosed collaborations or dual affiliations with prohibited entities, that may require further review. The new DRS API further enhances these capabilities by enabling large-scale, repeatable queries, streamlining workflows, and integrating DRS insights with other key data sources.”
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