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!
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.
Policy impact is one of the most ‘efficient’ routes to REF stars - a fact which has not gone unnoticed by the Higher Education sector in the UK. In this blog, Overton reflects on the previous REF exercises, the challenges that persist and what the...
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.
