Policy document filters

Filters results to show the research citations and people mentions for a particular institution in policy documents

Allows users to filter policy document results by Overton’s main sources types (government, think tank or IGO) or by a corresponding policy source subtype

Note, that while all Overton’s policy documents have been assigned a policy source type, not all have been assigned a corresponding source subtype

Policy sources produce policy documents. A policy source is a website and can represent a singular organisation or a be an aggregator for several organisations (i.e., Publications Office of the European Union)

Use this filter to see the policy sources in your results set and/or filter your search query to see documents from a specific policy source

The list of people who have been cited or mentioned from all institutions in the policy documents results set

Allows users to filter by type of policy document. By default, all of Overton’s policy sources are considered “publications.” Where possible, we try to filter out working papers, clinical guidelines, blog posts and transcripts

Breakdown of the policy documents by country

Breakdown of the policy documents by regions. Many of the options in this filter are the result of user requests to group policy documents into specific groups, i.e., OECD countries

Filter policy document results by a specific year or a range of years

Filter by the date the policy documents were added to the Overton database

Filter by the publication date of the policy documents

When Overton collects policy documents, there is sometimes extra metadata about the policy document. When this happens, it ends up as a “tag on source.”

Sometimes this metadata is to help distinguish groups of documents from a source (i.e., “117th Congress” or the “Scottish Affairs Committee”).

Filter by the main themes extracted from the policy documents

Filter by the policy documents in the results set which align to each goal of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

Filter by the academic publishers that published the research cited in the policy document results

Filter by the journals that published the research cited in the policy document results

Filter by the funders of the research cited in the policy document results

Filter by policy documents from a specific policy source

Filter by policy documents that cite a specific new outlet

Exclude a specific policy author (organisation) from the policy document results

Exclude a specific policy source’s documents from the results set

Filter for policy documents which does or doesn’t cite other policy documents