Search for policy documents that cite or mention your organisation Search for citations of research from your organisation in policy documents. Watch our step-by-step video or read through the steps.
Search for scholarly articles cited in policy Find scholarly research cited in policy documents by organisation or individuals using DOIs and other identifiers. Video: Search for scholarly...
Search for policy documents that cite or mention someone from your organisation For organisations that produce scholarly research or policy documents, it is useful to be able to see where individual authors...
How to read policy document results Found out how to interrupt a policy document result from the ‘Search for Policy Documents and Grey Literature’ search. Video:...
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 Users can search for people’s names in Overton to see if an individual has been cited or mentioned in policy....
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 and Grey Literature’ search, you can view the results in...
Summary reports for scholarly articles Results from the ‘Search Scholarly Articles’ search can be viewed as a summary report. A summary report examines the results...
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...
Search for policy to policy citations Policy to policy citations happen when one policy document references another. Overton Index includes actual policy documents but also reports...
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...
How to reference Overton This is intended as general guidance for how to reference data from Overton. There is a wide range of referencing...
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...