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Nature Research Intelligence Topics

Nature Research Intelligence Topics enable transformational understanding and discovery in research by categorising any document into meaningful, accessible topics.  Read this blog to understand more about managing research with topics.

Key benefits

Detailed, topic-level metadata for research documents enabling discovery, insights and trending

Nature Research Intelligence Topics bridge between hundreds of millions of documents and meaningful research topics to provide insight into bodies of research.

Access 30,000 high quality micro topics

Organise micro topics with any ontology

Label any document

How it works

Nature Research Intelligence Topics emerge from millions of recent citable research articles linked by their references and scientific concepts

Classify any document

Any document can be classified into a micro-topic using either references or key concepts. Hundreds of millions of documents have already been classified across publishers and document types. Access the existing classifications by DOI, or create your own with the simple to use API. Group microtopics into ontologies such as Fields of Research or Sustainable Development Goals.

Combine Nature Research Intelligence Topics with other solutions

Explore selected Nature Research Intelligence Topics with Nature Navigator. Define relevant bodies of research and purchase data mining or other content rights. Ingest into your analytical tools to create insight. Browse leading high quality research topics in Nature Index.

Latest reports

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Learn more about using Nature Research Intelligence Topics for data insights predicting trends

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