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）呼吁全球共同建设一个不让任何人掉队的世界。认识到研究在支持这些目标中发挥着基础性作用，学界尝试根据研究出版物对每个SDG的支持相关性对其进行分类。本文概述了我们在将研究论文映射至SDG时所遵循的方法论，该方法已被《泰晤士高等教育》用于其社会影响力排名。我们将解决方案与现有的其他查询及论文SDG映射模型进行比较，并讨论了该方法可改进及推广至研究论文以外其他类型内容的多个方面。本文所述结果是SDG研究映射倡议的成果，该倡议由南丹麦大学、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建立，旨在汇聚广泛专业知识，共享识别对联合国可持续发展目标研究贡献的最佳实践。