The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenge the global community to build a world where no one is left behind. Recognizing that research plays a fundamental part in supporting these goals, attempts have been made to classify research publications according to their relevance in supporting each of the UN's SDGs. In this paper, we outline the methodology that we followed when mapping research articles to SDGs and which is adopted by Times Higher Education in their Social Impact rankings. We compare our solution with other existing queries and models mapping research papers to SDGs. We also discuss various aspects in which the methodology can be improved and generalized to other types of content apart from research articles. The results presented in this paper are the outcome of the SDG Research Mapping Initiative that was established as a partnership between the University of Southern Denmark, the Aurora European Universities Alliance (represented by Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), the University of Auckland, and Elsevier to bring together broad expertise and share best practices on identifying research contributions to UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

翻译：联合国可持续发展目标（SDGs）呼吁全球共同体建设一个不让任何人掉队的未来。鉴于研究在支持这些目标中发挥着基础性作用，已有研究者尝试根据研究出版物对各自SDG的支撑程度进行分类。本文概述了我们将研究论文映射至SDG所遵循的方法论，该方法已被泰晤士高等教育社会影响力排名所采纳。我们将其与其他现有查询方法和模型进行比较，这些方法同样旨在将研究论文映射至SDG。同时，我们讨论了方法论在多个维度上的改进空间，以及将其推广至研究论文以外其他类型内容的可能性。本文呈现的结果源自南丹麦大学、奥罗拉欧洲大学联盟（由阿姆斯特丹自由大学代表）、奥克兰大学与爱思唯尔共同发起的SDG研究映射倡议，该伙伴关系旨在汇聚广泛专业知识，共享识别联合国可持续发展目标研究贡献的最佳实践。