When you run a search in the ‘Search Scholarly Articles tab, you can view the results as a list on the page or as summary report, which examines a set of research outputs cited in policy documents by various characteristics.
Generate a summary report by clicking ‘See report’ in the grey action bar above the search results.
Reading a summary report for scholarly article results
Article count
Number of research outputs in the results set
Cited in countries
Number of countries where the citing policy documents are from
Cited in sources
Number of policy sources (where the citing policy documents are from) which cite the research in the results set
World map image
The map displays where the citing policy sources are from. The size of the dot corresponds with the number of citing policy documents from that country
Journals
List of the journals that published the research in the results set
Publishers
List of the academic publishers that published the research in the results set
Citing policy countries
List of countries where the citing policy sources are from
Policy citation counts
Sorts the articles in the result set by citation count (number of times the article was cited in policy documents) and provides the citation count for the top 5% and 1% of articles.
This section is most useful for large results sets.
This section is most useful for large results sets.
Scholarly article publication years
Number of research outputs by their publication year
Citing policy publication years
Number of policy documents citing the research by their year of publication
Funders
A list of the funders of the research in the results set
Citing policy source types
A breakdown of the citing policy documents by source category (government, IGO, or think tank). All policy documents have an assigned source type.
Subtypes
A breakdown of the citing policy documents by policy source subtype (note: not all policy documents have a subtype so the numbers may not match to the parent policy source category).
Sources of citing policy
A list of the policy sources which cite the research in the results set
Author affiliations
A list of the affiliations of the author’s of the research in the results set
Authors
Authors of the research in the results set
Journal subjects
List of the subjects which describe the research in the results set
MeSH terms
List of the Medical Subject Headings (from the National Library of Medicine, NIH) which describe the research in the results set
Topics of citing policy
A list of main themes (topics) extracted from the citing policy documents in the results set and the number of policy documents for each topic area (note: a policy document can have multiple topics).
Classifications of citing policy
List of subject areas that describe the citing policy documents
Sharing summary reports
Summary reports can be shared publicly by URL, making it easy to collaborate with colleagues who do not have an Overton account. See ‘Sharing search results’ for step-by-step sharing instructions.