Gateway to Research dataset

Gateway to Research (GtR) is the UKRI portal onto publicly funded research.

We're collecting an updated data snapshot every week.

Raw data

To load the data tables, first initialise the GtR data getter class

from getters import gtr

# Initialise class to access the most recent data version
Gtr = gtr.GtrGetter()

The getters provide access to four raw data tables:

• projects: Titles and abstracts of projects funded by the UKRI
• funds: Data about the amount of funding for each project
• organisations: List of organisations linked to the projects
• persons: List of people linked to the projects

In the following we provide simple schemas, ie column names and descriptions. Note that some columns contain no information (likely an API artefact) but their names are kept for the sake of completeness.

Projects

Gtr.projects

Information about 150,000+ projects funded by the UKRI (as of autumn 2024).

Column	Description
links	Links to other GtR data tables
ext	n/a
id	Unique database entry id
outcomeid	n/a
href	API link
created	Timestamp indicating when the record was created
updated	n/a
identifiers	Project reference numbers (can be more than one)
title	Title the project
status	Current status of the project: 'Active' or 'Closed'
grantCategory	Type of grant, such as 'Research Grant', 'Studentship', 'Collaborative R&D' and others
leadFunder	Lead funding organisation, usually a research council or Innovate UK
leadOrganisationDepartment	Department in the funded organisation leading the project
abstractText	Description of the project
techAbstractText	Technical description of the project (if available)
potentialImpact	Statement describing the potential impact of the project or research (if available)
healthCategories	n/a
researchActivities	n/a
researchSubjects	Research categories
researchTopics	Research categories (unclear what's the difference with researchActivities
rcukProgrammes	n/a
start	n/a
end	n/a
participantValues	Organisations participating in the project (if available)

Links

Projects are linked to other types of data (via the links field in the table above). The possible relationships and corresponding endpoints (ie, other tables) are listed below.

Relationship	Endpoint
FUND	funds
COFUND_ORG	organisations
COLLAB_ORG	organisations
FELLOW_ORG	organisations
LEAD_ORG	organisations
PARTICIPANT_ORG	organisations
COI_PER	persons
FELLOW_PER	persons
PI_PER	persons
PM_PER	persons
RESEARCH_COI_PER	persons
RESEARCH_PER	persons
STUDENT_PER	persons
SUPER_PER	persons
TGH_PER	persons
TRANSFER	projects
TRANSFER_FROM	projects
STUDENTSHIP	projects
STUDENTSHIP_FROM	projects
ARTISTIC_AND_CREATIVE_PRODUCT	outcomes/artisticandcreativeproducts
COLLABORATION	outcomes/collaborations
DISSEMINATION	outcomes/disseminations
FURTHER_FUNDING	outcomes/furtherfundings
IMPACT_SUMMARY	outcomes/impactsummaries
IP	outcomes/intellectualproperties
KEY_FINDING	outcomes/keyfindings
POLICY	outcomes/policyinfluences
PRODUCT	outcomes/products
PUBLICATION	outcomes/publications
RESEARCH_DATABASE_AND_MODEL	outcomes/researchdatabaseandmodels
RESEARCH_MATERIAL	outcomes/researchmaterials
SOFTWARE_AND_TECHNICAL_PRODUCT	outcomes/softwareandtechnicalproducts
SPIN_OUT	outcomes/spinouts

Funds

Gtr.funds

Information about project funding

Column	Description
links	Links to other GtR data tables
ext	n/a
id	Unique database entry id
outcomeid	n/a
href	API link
created	Timestamp indicating when the record was created
updated	n/a
start	Timestamp when the funding period started
end	Timestamp when the funding period ended
valuePounds	Amount of funding
category	Funding category, can be one of three values: INCOME_ACTUAL, EXPENDITURE_ACTUAL and SUPPLEMENTARY_UNIT_AWARDS. Most of the entires are INCOME_ACTUAL
type	n/a

Organisations

Gtr.organisations

Column	Description
links	Links to other GtR data tables such as projects or persons
ext	n/a
id	Unique database entry id
outcomeid	n/a
href	API link
created	Timestamp indicating when the record was created
updated	n/a
name	Name of the organisation
regNumber	n/a
website	n/a
addresses	Address of the organisation (if available)

Persons

Gtr.persons

Column	Description
links	Links to other GtR data tables such as projects and organisations
ext	n/a
id	Unique database entry id
outcomeid	n/a
href	API link
created	Timestamp indicating when the record was created
updated	n/a
firstName	First name
otherNames	Other names
surname	Last name
email	n/a
orcidId	ORCID if available

Linked data

The getters class also does some data wrangling to provide access to useful linked data:

• projects_funds: GTR.projects table with added start, end, funds_id, funds_category, currencyCodeandamount`
• projects_persons: Project id and title; persons_rel, which indicates the relationship between the project and the person, and all other fields from GTR.persons table
• projects_organisations: Project id and title; organisations_rel, which indicates the relationship between the project and the person, and all other fields from GTR.organisations table
• persons_organisations: Joined up GTR.persons and GTR.organisations tables
• projects_enriched: Same as projects_funds but added url as well