Elsevier 2022 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Mapping

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenge the global community to build a world where no one is left behind.

Since 2018, Elsevier has generated SDG search queries to help researchers and institutions track and demonstrate progress toward the SDG targets. In the past 3 years, these queries, along with the university’s own data and evidence supporting progress and contributions to the particular SDG outside of research-based metrics, are used for the THE Impact Rankings.

For 2022, all SDGs used the exact same search query and ML algorithm as the Elsevier 2021 SDG mapping, except SDG 3. Working in conjunction with our university partners, we agreed that Covid related search terms should be added to SDG 3 - Good health and well-being. We made no changes to the ML algorithm.

The newly added Covid query adds a little more than 190,000 publications to SDG 3, out of about 300,000 publications containing Covid related terms. We focused on public health, clinical medicine, and biomedical research, avoiding publications related to the impact of the pandemic on research spheres outside health research (e.g., economic, political, etc.).

联合国可持续发展目标（SDGs）向全球社会提出挑战，旨在构建一个不让任何一个人掉队的世界。自2018年以来，Elsevier公司已生成SDG搜索查询，以协助研究人员和机构追踪并展示其实现SDG目标的进展。在过去三年中，这些查询与大学自身的相关数据及证据相结合，用以支撑对特定SDG在研究之外所取得的进展和贡献，这些数据证据被用于THE影响排名。对于2022年，所有SDGs均采用了与Elsevier 2021年SDG映射相同的精确搜索查询和机器学习算法，除了SDG 3。在与我们的大学合作伙伴共同协商后，我们一致认为应将新冠疫情相关搜索词纳入SDG 3——良好健康与福祉。我们并未对机器学习算法做出任何调整。新增的疫情查询使得SDG 3增加了超过190,000篇出版物，占大约300,000篇包含新冠疫情相关术语的出版物。我们专注于公共卫生、临床医学和生物医学研究，避免涉及疫情对健康研究领域之外的研究领域（如经济、政治等）的影响。