Prospective Capabilities of the Dimensions Information Platform

The article provides an analysis of the capabilities of the Dimensions platform as an information product, which in recent years has increasingly been considered as an alternative source of information for performing bibliometric research. This resource has attracted the attention of not only foreign researchers. Some Russian studies are also carried out today using its functionality. The evaluation of the search and analytical capabilities of the free version of the database is conducted based on studying the topic “Altmetrics”. The trends in the development of altmetric research are studied, the authors and teams of authors who are developing these areas are identified and the analytical capabilities of the resource are characterized in the form of a visualized assessment of search results. The article also gives attention to paid services based on artificial intelligence created by Digital Science (Research GPT, AI Summarization, API for import, etc.). The author considers the general source base of the platform and its main functions. Statistics of document types are presented. It has been found out that articles currently make up 80% of the total volume of documents. It is concluded that the free version of Dimensions is not suitable for all tasks when conducting a bibliometric analysis; in particular, the use of this version will not allow for a comprehensive description of the development of research areas in relation to different countries.