Researchers

This page contains information about the Researchers data source in the Dimensions BigQuery project.

See also

Dimensions DSL API Documentation for this type is also available from here.

Researchers Schema

Field	Type	Description
current_research_org	Literal: String	The most recent research organization linked to the researcher.
first_grant_year	Literal: Integer
first_name	Literal: String	First Name.
first_publication_year	Literal: Integer Partitioning field
funding_orgs	Array of < Literal: String >
id	Literal: String Clustering field	Dimensions researcher ID.
initials	Literal: String	Initials.
last_grant_year	Literal: Integer
last_name	Literal: String	Last Name.
last_publication_year	Literal: Integer
nih_ppid	Array of < Literal: String >	The PI Profile ID (i.e., ppid) is a Researcher ID from the US National Institute of Health (NIH).
orcid_ids	Array of < Literal: String >	ORCID IDs
redirect	Array of < Literal: String >	Indicates status of a researcher ID marked as obsolete. Empty means that the researcher ID was deleted. Otherwise ID provided means that is the new ID into which the obsolete one was redirected. If multiple values are available, it means that the original researcher ID was split into multiple IDs.
research_orgs	Array of < Literal: String >	All research organizations linked to the researcher.
status	Literal: String
total_grants	Literal: Integer	Total grants count.
total_publications	Literal: Integer	Total publications count.

Researchers Links

The diagram below provides an overview of the outgoing links from Researchers to other sources.