Release Notes and Deprecations

Versions History

Version cris-2.0.3 — 2021, February, Week of 1st

  1. New field category_sdg in publications and grants

Version cris-2.0.3 — 2020, August, Week of 24th

  1. New field research_org_names in grants

Version cris-2.0.2 — 2020, June, Week of 15th

  1. New field research_org_names in publications

Version 1.20.0 — 2019, September, Week of 23rd

  1. Allowed filtering in researchers source by orcid_id field

  2. Added flag for corresponding authors in publications

Version 1.19.0 — 2019, August, Week of 26th

  1. New indicator altmetric_avg in publications

  2. New field granted_date in patents

  3. Enabled faceting on cpc and ipcr fields in patents

  4. New search field inventors in patents

  5. New field authors in publications, should be used instead of deprecated author_affiliations

Version 1.18.0 — 2019, August, Week of 4th

  1. New field category_for in publications. Should be used instead of FOR and FOR_first

  2. New field grant_number in grants. Should be used instead of project_num

  3. New search field full_data_exact in publications. This field provides a non-normalized(stemmed) search index, useful for searching for exact terminology such as gene names, chemical compounds, etc.

  4. Function extract_terms deprecated in favor of extract_concepts.

  5. New field researchers in clinical_trials.

  6. Category fields renamed, as following: RCDC -> category_rcdc, HRCS_RAC -> category_hrcs_rac, HRCS_RC -> category_hrcs_hc, HRA -> category_hra, BRA -> category_bra. These fields are now available accross all relevant sources: publications, grants, patents, clinical_trials and policy_documents. Old fields are still usable, altough marked as deprecated and will be removed in the future.

Version 1.17.0 — 2019, May, Week of 27th

  1. New field and search field concepts in publications and grants. Should be used instead of terms field/search field

  2. New field reference_ids in publications. Should be used instead of references

  3. New field publication_year in patents

  4. New field publisher_org, publisher_org_city, publisher_org_state, publisher_org_country in policy_documents

  5. New field investigator_details in clinical_trials. Should be used instead of researcher_details search field

  6. New field investigator_details in grants. Should be used instead of researcher_details search field

  7. New search field authors in publications. Should be used instead of researchers search field

  8. New search field investigators in grants. Should be used instead of researchers search field

  9. New search field inventors in patents. Should be used instead of researchers search field

  10. New search field investigators in clinical_trials. Should be used instead of researchers search field

  11. Enabled faceting on field type in publications

  12. Disabled faceting on fields total_grants and total_publications in researchers

  13. Fixed issues related to cited_by_ids in patents

  14. Fixed issues related to not returning some researchers from the researchers source

  15. Deprecating complex queries where the number of results of a sub-query is too large, and hence it gets truncated. Please see Frequently Asked Questions for more info. A warning is issued, but in future versions an exception will be thrown

Version 1.16.0 — 2019, April, Week of 22nd

  1. Deprecated ability to facet on field recent_citations in publications

  2. Deprecated ability to facet on field obsolete in researchers

  3. Deprecated ability to facet on field researcher_org_state_names in publications

  4. Deprecated ability to filter on JSON fields, including author_affiliations in publications and researcher_details in grants

  5. New field date_inserted in policy_documents

  6. New field funding_currency and funding_nzd in grants

Version 1.15.0 — 2019, March, Week of 25th

  1. New source: researchers

  2. Getting documentation programmatically

  3. New function extract_terms() in Functions Syntax

  4. New field and search field terms in publications

  5. Enhanced support for full-text queries, including support for wildcard and proximity search. See for "search term"

Version 1.14.1 — 2019, March, Week of 4th

  1. Fixed search for complicated boolean phrases

  2. Fixed equals or equals or greater than filter for field date in publications

  3. Field status in patents is deprecated in favor of legal_status

  4. Field filed_date in patents is deprecated in favor of date

  5. Field resulting_publication_ids in grants is now deprecated. See Cross Source Links for more information

Version 1.14.0 — 2019, February, Week of 11th

  1. publications have new fields: referenced_pubs, terms

  2. grants have new fields: researcher_details, terms

  3. Field open_access in publications is deprecated in favor of open_access_categories. It will be renamed back to open_access at some point in the future.

Version 1.13.0 — 2019, January, Week of 28th

  1. Escaping special characters in full text query; for "search term"

  2. publications have new fields: open_access_categories

  3. clinical_trials now support researchers search and emptiness filters

  4. grants source now supports researcher search

  5. New function: classify for classification of abstracts: Functions Syntax

  6. clinical_trials has new field: date_inserted

Version 1.12.0 — 2019, January, Week of 14th

  1. patents now support emptiness filters

  2. publications have new fields: linkout, publisher

  3. Functions Syntax

  4. mesh_terms in publications now supports case insensitive filtering

  5. Escaping special characters in full text query; for "search term". This syntax becomes mandatory as of next release

Version 1.11.0 — 2018, December, Week of 10th

  1. Ability to sort by relevance

  2. patents have a new field: date_inserted

  3. search publications in authors is now deprecated in favour of search publications in researchers

Version 1.10.0 — 2018, November, Week of 12th

  1. patents have a new field: FOR_first

  2. patents and grants sources now supports title_only search

  3. publications have a new field: proceedings_title

Version 1.9.0 — 2018, October, Week of 1st

  1. grants and policy documents now support emptiness filters

  2. Sorting now accepts asc or desc to alternate the sorting order

  3. New field date_inserted in grants, which indicates a date when publication has been inserted into Dimensions records

Version 1.8.0 — 2018, September, Week of 17th

  1. New field date_inserted in publications, which indicates a date when publication has been inserted into Dimensions records

  2. New source policy_documents

  3. Disabled filtering support for field researchers.orcid_id. Instead publications can be searched using search publications for "<orcid>"

  4. Disabled faceting support for field research_org_country_names in publications

  5. Expanded open_access values for publications content.

Version 1.7.0 — 2018, August, Week of 20th

  1. Support for title_only search in clinical_trials

  2. Support for count(researchers) in publications source

  3. Removed deprecated field funding_amount from grants source. Use funding_usd instead

  4. New fields: in patents: publication_ids

  5. New fields: in publications: recent_citations, field_citation_ratio, mesh_terms

Version 1.6.0 — 2018, July, Week of 30th

  1. Increased limit of returned facets to 1000. Disabled skip support for faceting results and introduced limit to skip for documents of 50000.

  2. New fields: in publications: journal_lists

  3. New fields: in grants: resulting_publication_ids

  4. New fields: in clinical_trials: publication_ids

Version 1.5.0 — 2018 Jun, Week of 25th

  1. Organization name is now case insensitive. where research_orgs.name ~ "michigan" will produce same results as when searching for uppercase “Michigan”

  2. Searching patents and returning all fieldset could fail previously, due to internal error. This is now fixed

  3. ORCID ID is now returned for publication researchers field, if the ID is available

  4. Field author_names is removed from publications source. Use author_affiliations field instead

Version 1.4.0 — 2018 Jun, Week of 11th

  1. Support for authors search field for publications, see section in [search index]. Field author_names is now deprecated and will be removed in the next release

  2. Initial support for interlinking between entities using IDs

  3. New fields for clinical trials: funders, funder_countries, funder_groups

  4. Enhanced open_access field for publications, see the description of the fields

  5. Added funding in different currencies to grants. Field funding_amount is now deprecated in favour of funding_usd

  6. Possibility to search for phrases, not just keywords and to combine them using boolean operators. See updated section for "search term"

  7. Added support for count on some fields, specifically: 1) count(research_orgs) in publications, and 2) count(research_org_countries) in publications

Version 1.3.0 — 2018 May, Week of 7th

  1. Return _stats with paging information in the results

  2. Consolidated publication_date and date fields for publications into just date. For grants, start_date and date have been consolidated into start_date

  3. Support for <field> is empty and <field> is not empty filters (see Emptiness filters is empty). Currently supported by publications only.

Version 1.2.2 — 2018-04-09

  1. Internal optimizations and bug fixes

Version 1.1.1 — 2018-03-21

  1. Added fields for publications FOR_first, RCDC, HRCS_RAC, HRCS_HC

Version 1.0.0 — 2018-03-01

  1. First public release

  2. Added support for search <source> [in full_data|text_abstract_only] [for …]

Deprecations History

This section lists fields and search fields that have been deprecated and should not be used.

Warning

This fields will be supported in versions 2.x and removed in the next major release. To ensure full compatibility with the upcoming major release, it is recommend to stop using deprecated fields as soon as possible.

Deprecated Fields

Source

Field

Deprecation Note

Patents

FOR

Deprecated in favor of: category_for

Patents

FOR_first

Deprecated in favor of: category_for

Patents

RCDC

Deprecated in favor of: category_rcdc

Partially Deprecated Fields

On the following fields only certain features are deprecated (e.g. filtering or faceting).

Source

Field

Deprecated Features

Researchers

obsolete

facet

Deprecated Search Indexes

Deprecated Functions

Function

Deprecation Note

extract_terms

Deprecated in favor of: extract_concepts