The STRINGS queries to identify documents related to the SDGs

This page contains an Excel file with search queries to identify documents related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1-16. It also contains a document that explains the methodology used to create the queries.

This procedure was created for the STRINGS project. It is important to note that in our work to identify SGD-related publications, we do not rely exclusively on search queries. We apply each SDG query to research areas that are obtained from a publication-level clustering algorithm, based on direct backwards and forward citations. We then select research areas related to SDGs, and include all the publications that contribute to that area. The advantage of this procedure is that it allows: i) to include publications that do not use SDG-related language in their abstract or title but which contribute to the research in a cluster/area that has several publications that use SDG-related language; ii) to exclude publications that use terms that are related to SDGs, but do not contribute research that is related to the SDGs.

In the STRINGS report, you can find an application to map and characterise publications and patents related to the SDGs, and a country-level analysis of the alignment between research priorities and SDG challenges.