Search for policy documents that cite or mention your organisation Search using the main dashboard Type your organisation’s name into the search box in the ‘Search policy documents tab’. A...
Search for scholarly articles cited in policy Search using the main dashboard Type your organisation’s name, journal title, funder or publisher name into the search box in...
Search for policy documents that cite or mention someone from your organisation For organisations that produce scholarly research or policy documents, it is often useful to be able to see where individual...
How to read policy document results Image map of a result Use the following map to identify the different elements in a policy document result. Coloured...
Policy document filters In the “Search Policy Documents” search mode, there are numerous filters available to help users structure and/or limit a search...
Advanced searches Learn Overton’s search syntax for phrases, proximity matching, searching specific fields and boolean queries Simple keyword searches in Overton will...
Search for names in Overton Tips for searching for people by name The author name data we get in Overton ultimately comes from publishers and...
Search for books or book chapters cited in policy Scholarly Articles search for books cited in policy The gold standard way of searching for books or book chapters that...
Summary reports for policy documents When you run a search in the ‘Search Policy Documents’ tab, you can view the results as a list on...
Summary reports for scholarly articles When you run a search in the ‘Search Scholarly Articles tab, you can view the results as a list on...
Sharing search results Sharing summary reports When you run a search of Overton’s policy document database, you can view the results in a...
Why are some authors not appearing in the People tab? If a name doesn’t return any matches or fewer citations than expected in the People tab there may still be...
Has my work been cited in Policy? Overton’s primary focus is policy documents so we do not index every scholarly article which has ever been published. The...
Policy documents filter: Language Overton is largely language agnostic. We index policy documents regardless of their language or alphabet. For details about the processing...
Search using DOIs A DOIs search is an excellent way to check if a scholarly work is cited in policy. Follow these step-by-step...
How to track the cascading impact of research in policy Keeping track of how research from a scholarly article spreads into policy documents can be pretty tricky, especially as it...
How does Overton calculate relevance? Overton’s full-text search function is powered by Elasticsearch. The default relevance scoring algorithm used by Elasticsearch is BM25, which is a version...