How we can use the Overton Index to analyse shifts in policy trends and agendas - how do they change between months and years? What drives their changes? How quickly do they change? How quickly does the appetite for evidence grow or shrink, and on...
In 2023 Overton launched the Policy Impact Micro Grant - a scheme to fund research projects that explore the policy landscape and its relationship with evidence and the academic sphere.
We sat down with Overton founder Euan Adie to discuss the launch of Overton Engage- a new platform to connect experts with decision makers, to help researchers influence policy and affect real change.
An academic or researcher’s career is often guided by key principles. You must strive to be intellectually honest, innovative and curious. Searching for and producing knowledge requires rigour and passion.
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...
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...
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...
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've updated our Sustainable Development Goals (or SDGs) filter on Overton, to make it more precise and help our users better understand the impact they're having in priority areas. In this blog we explore the importance of the SDGs and how we’ve...
Rivers are essential for sustaining ecosystems, providing freshwater resources, supporting agriculture, facilitating transportation and offering recreational opportunities. Humans are heavily reliant on rivers, but also subject to how they respond...
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.
