Policy document filters

In the “Search Policy Documents” search mode, there are numerous filters available to help users structure and/or limit a search query. Filters are located on the left side of the page.

Each filter has an option in the bottom left corner called “show more.” Clicking on this link will display the filter in full.

Index of policy document filters

People cited or mentioned

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

From source

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

Policy source sector

Use this filter to specify which sector the source of the document derives from, such as public, private or third sector

Policy source organisation

Use this filter to specify which organisation type the source of the document derives from, such as government, think tank, NGO or IGO

Policy source function

Use this field to specify the function of the source that the document derives from. These can be used as a series of broad descriptors, which describe the core functions of or services provided by the organisation. There may be more than one classification applied at this level, to offer a more nuanced and detailed idea of what a source is or does.

People cited or mentioned

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

Document type

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

Source country

Breakdown of the policy documents by country

Source region

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

Year

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

Added after / Added before

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

Published after / Published before

Filter by the publication date of the policy documents

Tags on source

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”).

Topics

Filter by the main themes extracted from the policy documents

Related to SDG

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

Cites publishers

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

Cites journal

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

Cites works from funder

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

Cites policy source

Filter by policy documents from a specific policy source

Cites news outlet

Filter by policy documents that cite a specific new outlet

Subject area

Excluding policy author

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

Excluding source

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

Cites others

Filter for policy documents that cite either policy docs, research or both.