Access the full corpus of Lens scholarly works, biological sequences and patents using the flexibility and convenience of an API or bulk downloads. Perform and combine API search operations to programmatically retrieve results or download bulk sequence listings.

Our patent search capabilities offer advanced boolean functions, structured search, biological search, classification search, filtering and sorting options to find the most relevant and important patents. Create collections, alerts and visualisations to be annotated and shared.

Lens serves over 200 million scholarly records, compiled and harmonised from Microsoft Academic, PubMed and Crossref, enhanced with OpenAlex and UnPaywall open access information and links to ORCID. The full scholarly citation graph is provided for the first time as an open public resource.

Lens Profiles are composite author/inventor profiles based on ORCID records and enhanced with aggregated data from various sources. Link your profile to update your ORCID record with additional scholarly works or patents from the Lens in just a few easy steps.

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Analyze linkages between academic research and inventions. Explore which scholarly works have influenced what patents and who is using scholarly work to build products and services. Visualise important linkages and explore networks of collaborations.

Lens Reports is a new facility for creating evidence-based, open, sharable and reusable reports linked to real-time, automatically-updated Lens data and analytics. The next evolution of Lens, search, collect, analyze, annotate and now present your findings in a flexible, data-driven reporting interface.

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The Lens serves integrated scholarly and patent knowledge as a public good to inform science and technology enabled problem solving.

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The International Industry & Innovation Influence Mapping (In4M) uses citation-based metrics to map the influence of academic research on academia and enterprise. In4M explores, exposes and ranks the degree to which scholarly work output influences outcomes.

With this release (V6.0) we have officially decided to end support for Internet Explorer. We still fully support Microsoft Edge, along with all other modern and standards compliant browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera).

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Search and analyse biological sequences disclosed in patents. This is the world’s largest publicly available database with internal transparency metrics. Choose among the 5 apps to search and analyse the DNA, RNA and protein sequences found in patents.

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