The STRINGS queries to identify documents related to the SDGs

This document explains the methodology used to create the downloadable search queries to identify documents related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 1-16. First, we use text- mining techniques to extract relevant terms from text included in documents that provide descriptions of each SDG (e.g., policy reports, scientific publications and web content). Next, we manually cleaned the extracted terms together with STRINGS team members and other experts. After validating our queries internally, we compare them with other queries to evaluate and improve our approach. These SDG-related terms may be used to label abstracts, keywords and titles of scientific publications related to the SDGs. We recommend using these (and other) queries on clusters of publications (or research areas), rather than single publications.