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Search for citations of research from your organisation in policy documents. Watch our step-by-step video or read through the steps.

Find scholarly research cited in policy documents by organisation or individuals using DOIs and other identifiers. Video: Search for scholarly...

For organisations that produce scholarly research or policy documents, it is useful to be able to see where individual authors...

This article will help you understand the different elements of the policy document and grey literature search results. Policy document...

In the “Search Policy Documents” search mode, there are numerous filters available to help users structure and/or limit a search...

Learn Overton’s search syntax for phrases, proximity matching, searching specific fields and boolean queries Simple keyword searches in Overton will...

Users can search for people’s names in Overton to see if an individual has been cited or mentioned in policy....

Scholarly Articles search for books cited in policy The gold standard way of searching for books or book chapters that...

When you run a search in the ‘Search Policy Documents and Grey Literature’ search, you can view the results in...

Results from the ‘Search Scholarly Articles’ search can be viewed as a summary report. A summary report examines the results...

Sharing summary reports When you run a search of Overton’s policy document database, you can view the results in a...

If a name doesn’t return any matches or fewer citations than expected in the People tab there may still be...

Policy to policy citations happen when one policy document references another. Overton Index includes actual policy documents but also reports...

Overton’s primary focus is policy documents so we do not index every scholarly article which has ever been published. The...

This is intended as general, informal guidance for how to reference data from Overton. There is a wide range of...

Overton is largely language agnostic. We index policy documents regardless of their language or alphabet. For details about the processing...

A DOIs search is an excellent way to check if a scholarly work is cited in policy. Follow these step-by-step...

Keeping track of how research from a scholarly article spreads into policy documents can be pretty tricky, especially as it...

Overton’s full-text search function is powered by Elasticsearch. The default relevance scoring algorithm used by Elasticsearch is BM25, which is a version...