New feature: Policy citation context
We've been working on drastic improvements to citation contexts, which are now shown on both the policy and scholarly article search views.
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Posts by Euan Adie:
Do articles from predatory journals make their way into policy?
29th January 2021 By: Euan Adie
The short answer: yes - everywhere from clinical guidelines to food and drug safety reports to Interpol bulletins.
Predatory publishers are a growing phenomenon in academia and there is concern that their publications are being used in policymaking....
New paper in Science uses Overton data to explore pandemic responses
8th January 2021 By: Euan Adie
The Covid-19 pandemic saw the global scientific community come together at unprecedented speed to respond to the evolving situation. For policymakers trying to make sense of the flurry of research outputs, it was a daunting prospect.
Do open access articles get quoted more often in policy?
24th November 2020 By: Euan Adie
Open access articles (probably) get cited (a bit) more in scholarly research (see here for a good intro). For the excellent Munin Conference last week we wanted to see if anything similar happens in policy using the Overton policy document database.
CWTS team present paper using Overton data at Altmetrics20
12th November 2020 By: Euan Adie
A team of researchers from CWTS (the Centre for Science and Technology Studies within the University of Leiden) presented early findings from their analysis of Overton's policy document database at the Altmetric Workshop series 2020.
Overton at Bibliometrics and Research Assessment Symposium 2020
7th October 2020 By: Euan Adie
We're looking forward to being part of a panel discussion on Altmetrics at this year's Bibliometrics and Research Assessment Symposium, organised by the NIH Library.
Interactive data lab: Mapping the people and citations in UK policy
4th September 2020 By: Euan Adie
Where in the UK is academic engagement with policy coming from?
Who are COVID-19 guidelines & policy documents citing?
23rd April 2020 By: Euan Adie
It's been great to see medical scientists embrace medRxiv as the repository of choice for new work on COVID-19. Pre-prints have never really taken off in medicine before but the pandemic has brought with it new ways of publishing and communicating...
Open COVID-19 policy dataset
31st March 2020 By: Euan Adie
The COVID-19 policy dataset is a zip file of policy documents from 2020 relating to the COVID-19 pandemic (the search strategy is documented below). The documents are in PDF format and have an accompanying JSON file explaining their provenance:...
Come meet us (Winter 2019) - DC, New York, Brussels and London
23rd September 2019 By: Euan Adie
Interested in chatting about policy, research and / or impact, or on seeing Overton in person?
What is Overton
We help universities, think tanks and publishers understand the reach and influence of their research.
The Overton platform is the world’s largest searchable policy database, with over 9 million documents from 31k organisations.
We track everything from white papers to think tank policy briefs to national clinical guidelines, and automatically find the references to scholarly research, academics and other outputs.