Research Outputs and Persons in Pure are automatically tagged against the 16 agreed United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This is done via nightly jobs that review the content against defined queries developed by Elsevier. Elsevier have used this same methodology as used by The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings against SDGs. 

For Research outputs, the auto-tagging will consider the title, abstract and keywords.

For Researchers, it will consider your profile text information.

• The SDG queries are defined within Pure, and are not currently available for editing.
• There is no weighting or ranking of keywords on content. These are binary definitions, based on whether they do or do not match the search queries.
• SDG 17 - Partnerships for the goals, is not related to any specific content but to the collaboration on other SDG-related work. For this reason, SDG 17 is not automatically added to any content but is available if users have content they feel satisfies the criteria as set forth by the UN. 

Users can manually tag their outputs or themselves against SDGs. For research outputs, open the output, scroll to where it says Keywords, and select the appropriate SDG(s). For personal profiles, click Edit Profile, scroll to Keywords and select the appropriate SDG(s).