• The ari.org.uk dataset

    • September 14, 2023
    • eadie

    Overton maintains the ari.org.uk database, in partnership with the Government Office of Science, the ESRC and Transforming Evidence.

  • Release notes for 2023

    • March 6, 2023
    • eadie

    A list of recent data updates, fixes and new product functionality

  • Release notes for 2022

    • November 23, 2022
    • eadie

    A list of recent data updates, fixes and new product functionality

  • What are data notes?

    • October 12, 2022
    • eadie

    Overton is committed to transparency and uses data notes to alert users of possible limitations and bias within their search query or results.

  • How does Overton know who authored a scholarly article?

    • October 8, 2022
    • eadie

    Details how Overton finds author names for the scholarly books and papers cited by policy documents When Overton finds a reference to a scholarly work in a policy document it creates an item for it in the Scholarly Articles tab. That item contains the scholarly work’s title, journal (if applicable!),…

  • Minimum hardware requirements

    • June 24, 2022
    • eadie

    What are the minimum hardware requirements for accessing Overton? Web application While there are no minimum hardware requirements per se for accessing the Overton web application you will need a device capable of running a modern web browser. Official supported browsers are: Chrome Firefox Edge Safari Opera We support versions…

  • Allowing Overton access to your website

    • June 12, 2022
    • eadie

    How to configure Cloudflare and other middleware to allow Overton’s scrapers access to your website Overton automatically checks for updates to your publication pages, so that we can see when new documents are published and start tracking them. If you’re a publisher and want to use Overton then it’s important…

  • Why are some authors not appearing in the People tab?

    • May 11, 2022
    • eadie

    If a name doesn’t return any matches or fewer citations than expected in the People tab there may still be other information about that author’s works in the database Data based on citations gets into the People tab after a two-step process: We extract scholarly references from policy documents and…

  • Benchmarking %age cited in policy

    • April 20, 2022
    • eadie

    How Overton benchmarks the percentage of documents in a set that are cited in policy Given a large set of articles it can be helpful to know if the %age of articles cited in policy matches what you might expect – what’s “normal”. But determining expectations is difficult as it…

  • How does Overton find citation contexts?

    • April 7, 2022
    • eadie

    When Overton finds a reference to a scholarly output in a policy document we try to show you where in the text it is being used, like so: We do something very similar for citations to other policy documents. We call these citation contexts. Citation contexts in more detail The…

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