What universities use Discover RIMS for
Discover RIMS keeps one reconciled record of your institution’s publications, researchers and collaborations. Here are three jobs that record does, and what each one still needs from your team.
Choose the job in front of you
Each page sets out how the platform helps, where the data comes from, and what it does not do.
- Research office · Communications Researcher portal and expert discovery Public profiles, a directory searchable by research area, and a co-author network that make your researchers findable by funders, partners and journalists.
- Strategy & planning office University ranking preparation Track the output, journal quartiles, citations and international co-authorship that QS and THE research indicators measure, by faculty and by year.
- Sustainability & impact office SDG mapping and impact evidence Label publications by Sustainable Development Goal, review the labels with AI assistance, and export evidence lists by goal, faculty and year.
Built on five global sources
Every solution draws on the same reconciled record, assembled from these sources, with Crossref as a fallback.
- Publications and citations OpenAlex The main source: every work and citation count in a researcher’s record, the countries of their co-authors, and the h-index and i10-index on their profile.
- Researcher identity ORCID The anchor for each researcher. Their ORCID iD finds their works in OpenAlex, and the DOIs on their public ORCID record fill gaps.
- Author IDs and indexed journals Scopus Scopus Author IDs identify researchers who have no ORCID iD, and the Scopus source list flags publications in Scopus-indexed journals.
- Journal quartiles Scimago Journal quartiles from the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), behind the Q1–Q4 breakdowns, quartile filters and top-10% journal flags.