About Nature Research Intelligence Topics (original) (raw)

Nature Research Intelligence Topics enable transformational understanding and discovery in research by categorising any document into meaningful, accessible topics. Nature Research Intelligence is providing the research community with summaries of research topics.

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Key benefits

Nature Research Intelligence Topics bridge between hundreds of millions of documents and meaningful research topics to provide insight into bodies of research.

Access 40,000 high quality micro topics

Organise micro topics with any ontology

Label any document

How it works

Nature Research Intelligence Topics emerge from millions of recent citable research articles linked by their references and scientific concepts.

Classify any document

Document classification

Documents are classified into a micro-topic using either references or key concepts. Hundreds of millions of documents have already been classified across publishers and document types. Group microtopics into ontologies such as Fields of Research or Sustainable Development Goals.

Nature Research Intelligence in Nature Index

Browse leading high quality research topics in Nature Index. Topic summaries are available for 40,000 topics and for over 100 level 2 topics we show research output by institution and country/territory as well as collaboration data.

Problems solved by Nature Research Intelligence Topics

Track and discover research with high quality granular research topics.

Use for content selection, horizon scanning, benchmarking and more.

Guide research decision making

Research topics are critical to making strategic decisions in where to invest for the future. Existing ontological approaches are too broad and slow to adapt due to manual curation. NRI topics label research similarly to how the research community views research, enabling you to:

  1. Identify the right research to invest in
  2. Find and summarise research topics relevant to your work
  3. Amplify weak research trend signals for horizon scanning
  4. Discover new insights

NRI topics are broadly applicable

We believe NRI topics can provide a common currency of granular research topics for the whole research community. In addition to the freely available NRI topic labels, we can provide the following services:

  1. Topic analytics
  2. Institutional performance tracking using NRI topics
  3. Benchmarking and consulting services using NRI topics
  4. Identify experts in NRI topics
  5. Nature Index data delivery by NRI topics

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