We wanted to find out what the think tank landscape looked like around the world. So, in this series we’ll use the Overton data to understand how think tanks are influencing policy, one country at a time.
Edit on 16th August: we realised that our initial figures didn't take into account self citations (documents citing documents from the same think tank) and have corrected the table. The ranking of think tanks in the top 10 has changed.
We wanted to...
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.
