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 only scholarly articles shown in Overton are ones which have been cited in policy.

For example, below, I searched for 99 scholarly articles and 98 of them are in Overton. The one which is missing was published this week so it will not have made its way into policy yet. If it’s not cited in policy, it’s not in Overton. 

Searching for an Individual Scholarly Article

First, make sure you’re using the right tab! Click on ‘Search Scholarly Articles’ 

If you want to search by the title of your article, make sure you select the option to search for the ‘exact-phrase’

Alternatively, you can use the ‘Search by DOI’ option and enter an identifier such as DOI, PMID, or ISBN. Entering an ORCID ID does not search for all of the articles on your ORCID page, rather it finds articles by anyone with the same name.

Reading the results

1. You can use the ‘Explore’ drop-down menu to see the Policy Documents citing this paper.
2. This shows that 34 Policy Documents have cited this paper. Please note the number of citations here only refers to policy citations. It has no relation to academic citations in Scopus or Web of Science. 
3. Users have a default set of ‘Key Sources’ highlighted as key to their field or location, and this shows that this article has been cited in 8 Policy documents by these key sources. You can update your Key Sources using the “Explore the data” menu at the top of the webpage.

Searching for a list of articles

If you or your team have published multiple scholarly articles, you can search for the entire list. The easiest way of doing this is to get a list of DOIs and paste them into the ‘Search by DOI’ box and click ‘Search for these identifiers.’ Your search can include a mix of DOIs, PMIDs, etc.

Once you’ve searched for the articles, you can see a report, export your results, or click ‘Explore’ then ‘See the policy citing these papers.’

1. Once you click on ‘See Policy citing these papers’, the tab will change to ‘Policy Documents’ to indicate that you’re no longer looking at scholarly articles.
2. Shows you that the results are Policy Documents ‘Citing the given DOIs.’
3. You have the option to ‘Save Search’, which means you can save the search and turn it into a weekly or monthly email alert. Alerts help you see when we index a new policy document which cites your articles.
4. To get a summary or overview of the policy documents citing the DOIs, you can click ‘See Report’ for information on countries producing the policy, institutions cited, funders of cited research and other information. Here is an Example Summary Report.
5. Shows you the number of Policy Documents which have cited the scholarly articles in our list. In this case, 157 policy documents have cited one of the 17 scholarly articles we searched for.