The Dimensions Research Security API enables research institutions and government agencies to integrate sophisticated research security and compliance checks directly into their existing internal workflows. Built upon the world’s largest interconnected research database, it provides a powerful, data-driven approach to safeguarding institutional reputation and funding.
By embedding trusted data into HR, grants, and compliance systems, organizations can identify potentially undisclosed affiliations and sensitive collaborations while ensuring final decision-making remains with in-house experts.
Key Features
- Workflow Integration: Seamlessly embeds into secure internal systems (HR, Grant Management) to strengthen oversight without adding manual steps.
- Defensible Reviews: Provides structured outputs, metadata, and clear, actionable reasons for every flagged record to support audit trails.
- High-Scale Performance: Built to support thousands of rapid reviews under tight timelines using continuously updated data.
- Comprehensive Profiles: Accesses detailed affiliation histories for researchers and cross-references organizations against restricted entity lists (e.g., US BIS Entity List, CA Named Research Organizations).
- Flexible Configuration: Allows institutions to define and configure risk parameters—such as geographical locations —according to their unique needs.
Use Cases
- Due Diligence & Compliance: Systematically verify if prospective partners or faculty are linked to organizations on international restricted entity lists.
- Conflict of Interest (COI) Screening: Audit researcher activities to uncover undisclosed relationships or potential foreign influence in sensitive fields.
- Pre-Award Grant Review: Evaluate grant applications during the pre-award phase to identify flagged collaborators or activities in countries of concern.
- Institutional Monitoring: Perform periodic scans of institutional publications and affiliations to ensure ongoing alignment with national security guidelines.
