Source Titles

The Source Titles source is a curated database of publications ‘containers’, for example journals, preprint servers, book series and others. This is analogous to the ‘source titles’ facet available in the Dimensions web application.

This section provides information about the Source Titles source , listing each field available for Source Titles, with details about the field value type, including whether it may be used as a facet and whether it is a multi-value field. The table also contains information about whether the field may be used in the where section and whether the field the field may be used in the entity fields filter. The page also lists the fields included in each fieldset available for Source Titles, and each aggregation indicator available.

Note

By default, Source Titles is sorted by the relevance, unless specified differently using Sorting Results option.

Source Titles Fields

Fields are used to perform searches on the source they belong to. Note: the emptiness filters can be used on any field, irrespectively of whether filtering / faceting is enabled on them.

Field	Type	Multi?	Filter?	Facet?	Description
id	Literal: string		✓		The Dimensions ID of the source.
issn	Literal: string	✓	✓		List of known ISSNs for the source, including both print and electronic.
issn_electronic	Literal: string		✓		Electronic ISSN for the source.
issn_print	Literal: string		✓		Print ISSN for the source.
journal_lists	Literal: string	✓	✓	✓	Independent grouping of journals outside of Dimensions, e.g. ‘ERA 2015’ or ‘Norwegian register level 1’.
linkout	Literal: string				The source web URL, if known.
score	Literal: float		✓		For full-text queries, the relevance score is a numerical value assigned to a document that indicates how relevant that document is for a given query. Note: the score is query-specific i.e. it cannot be used to compare documents across queries.
sjr	Literal: float		✓		SJR indicator (SCImago Journal Rank). This indicator measures both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where the citations come from.
snip	Literal: float		✓		SNIP indicator (source normalized impact per paper). This indicator measures the average citation impact of the publications of a journal.
start_year	Literal: integer		✓	✓	Year when the source started publishing.
title	Literal: string				The title of the source.
type	Literal: string		✓	✓	The source type: one of book_series, proceeding, journal, preprint_platform (4 in total).

Source Titles Links

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

Source Titles Fieldsets

Fieldsets are used to specify fields groups in the context of a return statement.

Fieldset	Fields
basics	id issn publisher start_year title type

Source Titles Indicators

Indicators are used to aggregate results in the context of a facet query.

Indicator	Description
count	Total count

Source Titles Search Indexes

Search indexes are used to perform full-text searches on the source they belong to. The default search index, which is used if none other is specified, is title_only.

Search index	Supports multi-index search	Description
title_only	✓	The keyword will be searched in titles of publication sources.

Source Titles Deprecations

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

Warning

This fields will be supported in versions 2.10.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

Field	Deprecation Note
publisher	The relevant field in the Publications source should be used instead. This is because one source title can have multiple publishers e.g. as a result of journals ownership changes.

Partially Deprecated Fields

Source Titles has no partially deprecated fields.

Deprecated Search Indexes

Source Titles has no deprecated search indexes.