The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global agenda designed to confront humanity's most pressing challenges.
Initiated in September 2015, the SDGs present an ambitious and transformative vision to tackle urgent economic, social, and environmental issues by 2030. The 17 goals serve as a blueprint for nations, organisations, and individuals to collaborate and work together to create a more equitable, prosperous, and environmentally sustainable future for all.
Learn more about the origins of these goals and the 2030 agenda here.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) represent a global agenda designed to confront humanity's most pressing challenges. Initiated in September 2015, the SDGs present an ambitious and transformative vision to tackle urgent economic, social, and environmental issues by 2030. The 17 goals serve as a blueprint for nations, organisations, and individuals to collaborate and work together to create a more equitable, prosperous, and environmentally sustainable future for all.
Learn more about the origins of these goals and the 2030 agenda here.
ResearchNow will automatically attribute SDGs to publications retrieved from Scopus, by analysing key words within the title, abstract, and other key bibliographic data. These assignments will align to classifications found in external academic databases, and mirror how your research is being categorised within the broader academic community. Research outputs can have no SDGs, one SDG or a number of SDGs as applicable.
After you've successfully claimed your output, and it's published on the public portal, the associated SDGs will be displayed alongside your publication.
SDGs allocated to research outputs will flow through to a researcher’s profile and College or Research Centre or institute from November 2023. These can be curated on researcher profiles as appropriate.
SciVal is a an analytic benchmarking tool that represents the external Scopus data source. This data is used in the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings. In SciVal there are 3 sets of SDGs:
SciVal have worked with a set of university partners to improve the mappings, with their input used to create and improve the 2022 and 2023 search queries. See detailed FAQs here.
Once an output has been validated, changes cannot be made to any assigned SDGs via the ResearchNow editor. If you have any concerns with the SDGs associated with validated publications, please submit a ServiceOne request to the library, see below, for assistance in making the necessary amendments.
During the claiming outputs process, you have the option to manually add your preferred SDGs before any automatic assignments take place. Instructions on how to do this can be found here.
While it is possible to manually assign your preferred SDGs to your outputs, we strongly discourage this practice, as we aim to maintain consistency with industry-wide classifications for all outputs.
Curation of SDGs is best done within your own personal profile (functionality coming soon!).
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