A Curated Literature Database for Monitoring More Than 30 Years of Ansys Granta Product Usage
David Mercier

TL;DR
This paper introduces a structured, reproducible database for monitoring over 30 years of Ansys Granta product usage, enabling analysis of adoption, impact, and application domains through semi-automated data collection and expert curation.
Contribution
It presents a novel framework and curated database that consolidates diverse evidence of Ansys Granta usage for quantitative analysis and strategic decision-making.
Findings
Database contains over 1,100 curated records as of 2025.
Enables rapid retrieval of case studies and literature reviews.
Highlights dominant application domains and key institutions.
Abstract
Engineering and materials software is increasingly difficult to track in the scholarly and technical literature because publication volume is growing rapidly and software citation practices remain inconsistent. This is particularly true for the Ansys Granta product family, which is used for materials education, materials and process selection, sustainability-driven design, and enterprise materials information management. We present a structured and reproducible framework to consolidate evidence of \emph{operational} Granta usage and to support quantitative monitoring of adoption patterns, application domains, and technical impact. The framework is implemented as a curated reference database in \textit{Ansys Granta MI Enterprise}: bibliographic metadata are ingested semi-automatically (e.g., via DOI and citation-file parsing) and complemented by expert curation of usage descriptors…
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Taxonomy
TopicsMachine Learning in Materials Science · Scientific Computing and Data Management · Green IT and Sustainability
