At Overton, we want to make it as easy as possible for researchers to find, prove and grow their policy influence. We do this to support the scholarly community, and broaden what we understand as 'research impact' (defined by the UK Research...
We’ve got an exciting programme of events planned for 2024 - find out below where you can meet a member of Overton's team! Do also let us know if there’s a conference you’d recommend we attend. We’re always keen to hear about new opportunities to...
As part of our blog series on creating policy impact, we thought it was important to reflect on the process of creating good evidence. In this piece we explore the responsibility that the people involved in the production of research have to ensure...
In September we launched Overton's Policy Impact Micro Grant. Our goal was to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms of policy engagement through research, and so support evidence-based policy making.
We received many excellent applications,...
You might already know that we recently updated the SDG filter in Overton so that you can more accurately identify policy relating to the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (if you didn’t, see this blog post for detailed updates). In the...
At Overton, we like to think of our data as our superpower – the force behind our mission to make a positive impact. We hold the world's largest curated database of policy documents, and it's growing every day!
New research from scholars at Renmin University of China looks at how knowledge from scientific papers makes its way into government policies, to see if they could identify trends about the type of research that is cited in policy.
Here we’ll...
We’ve got complicated feelings about rankings using policy citation data. They can be interesting and sometimes genuinely useful if presented correctly, but have a mixed reputation for good reason. In this blog post we explore that context and share...
Elsevier's newreport ‘Landing real-world impact in research evaluation’, provides lots of interesting insights. In this blog we share our reflections and consider where Overton fits in.
New research from scholars at the Keck School of Medicine within the University of Southern California uses the Overton data to explore how tobacco related social media research is used to inform policy decisions on smoking in the US.
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.
