Policy to policy citations happen when one policy document references another.
Overton Index includes actual policy documents but also reports and other scientific or technical documents aimed at policymakers. For simplicity, Overton refers to this entire corpus of documents as “policy documents.”
When we examine policy to policy citations, we might be seeing how reports and other targeted materials influence actual decision-making alongside other policy to policy citations.
Video: Search for policy to policy citations
Find citations of an organisation’s policy documents
There are different options for finding an organisation’s policy documents citations.
Use a shortcut
Search ‘shortcuts’ are found at the bottom of the main dashboard page and are customised for your organisation. Clicking on the shortcut ‘See (number) policy documents citing the (organisation name)’ will find you all the policy to policy citations for your organisation.
Apply filters
From the list of filters on the ‘Search policy documents’ page, you can select the ‘Cites policy from source’ filter to find all the policy citations for a selected organisation.
If you do not want to see citations that come from the same organisation, you will also need to use the ‘Excluding source’ filter for the selected organisation.
Another filter option is to apply the ‘From source’ filter and select your organisation. This will provide you list of all the policy documents from your organisation.
After you have a list of the list of policy documents from your organisation, you can use ‘Explore’ to find your policy citations by selecting “See the policy citing this source.”
Find citations for an individual policy document
If a policy document has been cited other policy documents, this will be highlighted in the policy document record. In this example, you will see this policy document from the IPCC has been cited by 3,858 other policy documents.
Clicking on the link for the citing policy documents will generate a new list of results. From here, you can review the citing policy documents, generate a summary report, export or explore further.