Differences Between Excel and CSV Exports

Exporting results from either the “Search Policy Documents” tab or “Scholarly Articles” tab provides easy access to result sets. Policy document results can be downloaded to Excel or CSV, while Scholarly articles results can be downloaded to CSV only.

There are limitations to exports and downloading to CSV is a good option for larger results set. The table below lists the different data points (column headings) that different exports provide.

For definitions of each of the data points listed below, please read ‘Understanding Excel exports‘ and ‘Understanding CSV exports.’

Data Points by Export Type

Policy Documents: Export top 1,200 results to Excel
Title
Translated title
Thumbnail
Snippet
AI Generated Document Description
Published
URL
PDF URL
Source ID
Source Name
Source Country
Source Sector
Source Organisation Type
Source Function
Overton id
Policy Document Type
Policy Document Authors
Policy Document DOIs
Your Tags
Top Topics
Citations
Citations (Including Same Source)
Languages
Related to SDGs
Policy Documents: Export all results to CSV
Overton id
Title
Translated title
Document type
Source title
Source country
Source state
Source sector
Source organisation type
Source function
Published_on
Policy citations (excl. same source)
Policy citations (inc. same source)
Document URL
Overton URL
Source specific tags
Your tags
Top topics
Languages
Policy authors
Related to SDGs
Document theme
Policy Documents: Export everything that these documents cite to CSV (for results lists under 2,500)
Citing document Overton id
Source of citing document
Source sector of citing document
Source organisation type of citing document
Source function of citing document
Source country of citing document
Published on date of citing document
Title of citing document
Type of citation
Cited identifier
Cited title
Cited source or journal
Cited source sector
Cited source organisation type
Cited source function
Cited source country
Cited published on date
Scholarly Articles: Export the first 25,000 scholarly outputs to CSV
Title
DOI
Journal
Published on
Policy citation count
Type
Publisher
Authors
Your tags
ORCIDs
Scholarly Articles: Export policy cites of the first 1,000 outputs to CSV
Title
DOI
Journal
Published on
Policy citation count
URL
Cited by source ID
Cited by source
Cited by title
Cited by date
Cited by organisation sector
Cited by organisation type
Cited by organisation function
Cited by country
Cited by URL
Document page
Article funder(s)

Policy Document Exports

Excel ExportCSV Export
AI Generated Document Description
CitationsPolicy citations (excl. same source)
Citations (Including Same Source)Policy citations (inc. same source)
LanguagesLanguages
Overton idOverton id
Overton URL
PDF URL
Policy Document AuthorsPolicy authors
Policy Document DOIs
Policy Document TypeDocument type
PublishedPublished_on
Related to SDGsRelated to SDGs
Snippet
Source CountrySource country
Source FunctionSource function
Source ID
Source NameSource title
Source Organisation TypeSource organisation type
Source SectorSource sector
Source state
Source specific tags
Thumbnail
Document Theme
TitleTitle
Top TopicsTop topics
Translated titleTranslated title
URLDocument URL
Your TagsYour tags

Scholarly Article Exports

Export the first 25,000 scholarly outputs to CSVExport policy cites of the first 1,000 outputs to CSV
AuthorsArticle funder(s)
DOICited by country
JournalCited by date
ORCIDsCited by organisation function
Policy citation countCited by organisation sector
Published onCited by organisation type
PublisherCited by source
TitleCited by source ID
TypeCited by title
Your tagsCited by URL
Document page
DOI
Journal
Policy citation count
Published on
Title
URL
Updated on December 17, 2025

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