{"url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-20/digital-science-sunmedia-japan-partnership","markdown_url":"https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-10-20/digital-science-sunmedia-japan-partnership.md","title":"Digital Science Partners Sunmedia for Japan Research Reports","headline":"Digital Science and Sunmedia Partner to Bring Research Impact Reports to Japan's Medical Affairs Teams","description":"Digital Science partners with Sunmedia to build narrative research impact reports for Japan's medical affairs teams.","section":"Partnerships","published_at":"2026-10-20T00:14:16+00:00","modified_at":"2026-10-20T00:14:16+00:00","author":"News Desk","key_takeaways":["Sunmedia will develop customized, narrative-driven reports using Digital Science's Dimensions and Altmetric data.","Sunmedia serves around 2,000 corporate customers, with pharmaceutical as its core market.","The reports are designed to show how published research and independent medical education activity translate into real-world outcomes such as clinical guidelines."],"companies":[{"name":"Digital Science","is_primary":true,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0003afe/digital-science","website":"https://www.digital-science.com"},{"name":"Sunmedia","is_primary":false,"profile_url":"https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000mmmj/sunmedia","website":"https://www.sunmedia.co.jp"}],"source":{"publisher":"Nate","title":"[AsiaNet] Digital Science Announces Partnership with Sunmedia : 네이트 뉴스","url":"https://news.nate.com/view/20261020n04671?mid=n0100"},"other_sources":[],"tags":["Partnerships","Digital Science","Sunmedia"],"body_markdown":"[Digital Science](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/0003afe/digital-science) announced a partnership with Tokyo-based scholarly information company [Sunmedia](https://akta.pro/company-profiles/000mmmj/sunmedia) on October 20, 2026, to help medical affairs teams across Japan understand the impact of their research. [Nate](https://news.nate.com/view/20261020n04671?mid=n0100) carried the announcement. Under the partnership, Sunmedia will develop customized, narrative-driven reports using Digital Science's Dimensions and Altmetric data.\n\n## How the Sunmedia Reports Will Work\n\nSunmedia will build the reports for medical affairs teams, which use them to show how published research and independent medical education activity translate into real-world outcomes, such as clinical guidelines. The reports cover how much attention research and independent medical education activities receive and the sentiment regarding those activities. That understanding feeds directly into publication strategy.\n\nSunmedia serves around 2,000 corporate customers across various sectors, with pharmaceutical as its core market, including most major pharma companies in Japan. The company was established in 1964 and provides research content tools, e-journal hosting, rights permissions and single-article sales to university libraries, hospitals, corporations and government agencies across Japan, according to [Sunmedia](https://www.sunmedia.co.jp).\n\nKoji Yamashita, CEO of Sunmedia, said: \"Medical affairs teams in Japan have long needed a clearer way to demonstrate the value of their work to leadership. Combining Dimensions and Altmetric data with a narrative-driven approach gives us a way to help them tell that story with real evidence behind it, in a market where this kind of reporting hasn't really existed before.\"\n\nGareth Williams, Director of Partnerships at Digital Science, said: \"We're excited to partner with Sunmedia to bring new insight to medical affairs teams in Japan. This partnership provides medical affairs teams with clear insights into how their research output is received, enabling them to internally justify and externally measure their impact in clear, accessible terms.\"\n\n## Digital Science's Research Data Scale\n\nAccording to akta.pro [company records](https://akta.pro/company-data), Digital Science is a London-based research software company operating a portfolio of 12 or more integrated products spanning the research lifecycle, anchored by Dimensions. The same records describe Dimensions as the world's largest connected research database, with 159 million publications, 7.9 million grants and 170 million patents, and more than 70% of publications carrying full-text indexing. Digital Science was founded in 2010 and has between 501 and 1,000 employees.\n\n## Earlier Digital Science Partnerships\n\nIn August 2026, Jisc announced an agreement with Digital Science to give UK universities streamlined access to Dimensions Industry Partnerships, a platform for corporate collaboration analytics, Research Information reported. In October 2026, Digital Science appointed Charlesworth as its strategic sales partner for Altmetric and Dimensions in China's scholarly publishing sector, FinancialContent Business Page reported. In December 2025, Digital Science formed a strategic partnership with Kharon integrating sanctions, export control and compliance risk intelligence with its Dimensions Research Security platform, according to akta.pro company records.\n","publisher":{"name":"News for Agent","url":"https://newsforagent.com"}}