The STRINGS queries to identify documents related to the SDGs (+ country-SDG data)

This page contains three documents related to the work the STRINGS team has developed on mapping research related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): 
1. A document explaining the methodology used to create search queries for identifying documents related to SDGs 1-16.
2. An Excel file containing the search queries themselves.
3. An additional Excel file containing country-SDG level data used in the paper "Countries’ research priorities in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals".

The procedure for creating SDG queries was developed for the STRINGS project. For both the project and the paper, the procedure to identify SDG-related publications does not rely exclusively on search queries. We apply each SDG query to research areas obtained from a publication-level clustering algorithm, based on direct backward and forward citations. This enables us to select research areas related to SDGs and include all the publications contributing to that area. This approach has several advantages, including the ability to include publications that do not use SDG-related language in their abstract or title but still contribute to SDG-related research. 

For further insights, the platform, data, and thresholds used to understand which research areas are associated with an SDG are openly available here.

In the STRINGS report, you can explore applications to map and characterize publications and patents related to the SDGs.

Additionally, the paper "Countries’ research priorities in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals" provides a country-level analysis of the alignment between research priorities and SDG challenges.