Filtering by Study Type

Study type was developed to answer clients’ needs to drill down into specific types of publication. The queries were developed by our data science team under the guidance of our in-house MD. Study Type is currently only available in our dashboards.

The queries currently take the form of boolean expressions that are executed against the Dimensions API, and are readily edited. 

For our pharmaceutical clients, we currently organize these study types within three major groups, Clinical Trial, Population and Research Design. 'Clinical Trial' is further broken down into trial stage or type; Population identifies documents that mention specific demographics, e.g. Hispanic, Pediatric and Research Design looks for documents that contain specific phrases. For example, the query for Adverse Effects searches title, abstract and MESH fields using the following query:

("adverse event" OR "adverse reaction" OR "side effect" OR "after effect" OR "adverse response" OR "abnormal event" OR "abnormal reaction" OR "abnormal response" OR "adverse drug reaction" OR "abnormal drug reaction" OR "harmful reaction" OR "harmful effect" OR "adverse effect" OR “toxicity” OR “drug complication” OR “related adverse event” OR “serious adverse event” OR Iatrogen*)

Please contact us if you see any omissions, and missing Study Types or other errors. This data is under continuous review and development: we anticipate adding an additional quality check process, similar to that used by our Demographics and Sentiment processes using AI technologies in the near future. Additional queries have been (and can be) developed for other industries: you only see those Study Types that are relevant to your publications.