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Many of our users want to see where research by a given individual has been cited in our database of policy documents. You can now find all scholarly articles in Overton associated with a given ORCID (or set of ORCIDs)

We’ve tried to make it easy to use Overton as a university from the first login - and one way we do that is to automatically show you the policy documents that cite people or papers from your institution:

Think tanks play an influential role in the policymaking process in the UK and their research and recommendations are often picked up by government policymakers. Using Overton’s database of policy documents, we wanted to see which think tanks...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made use of Overton's policy document data to support their analysis in a recent publication, 'Macroeconomic Research in Low-income Countries: Advances Made in Five Key Areas Through a DFID-IMF...

We have made some improvements to our Excel export feature to make it even more useful for users.

A few weeks ago one of our new institutional clients had the excellent idea to introduce a topic export feature – and it went live today.

Our DOI search is used by lots of clients to track a defined cohort of articles through into policy. Following feedback from users, you can now search by ISBNs, PubMed IDs and PubMed Central IDs as well as DOIs. The same list can include a mix of...

COP26 is on the horizon and the world will be watching Glasgow as discussions take place that could shape our collective future. Understanding the relationship between scientific research and real world policy could not be more crucial in this space...

We’re delighted that, from today, users of Elsevier’s PlumX platform will be able to see Overton policy citations related to their scholarly articles.

At Overton we are passionate about helping organizations understand how their research influences...

We're proud to be able to support this year's Research Impact Summit as a Diamond sponsor.