Science cited in policy documents: Evidence from the Overton database

Zhichao Fang, Jonathan Dudek, Ed Noyons, Rodrigo Costas
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To reflect the extent to which science is cited in policy documents, this paper explores the presence of policy document citations for over 18 million Web of Science-indexed publications published between 2010 and 2019. Enabled by the policy document citation data provided by Overton, a searchable index of policy documents worldwide, the results show that there are 3.9% of publications in the dataset cited at least once by policy documents. Policy document citations present a citation delay towards newly published publications and show a stronger predominance to the document types of review and article. Based on the Overton database, publications in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities have the highest relative presence in policy document citations, followed by Life and Earth Sciences and Biomedical and Health Sciences. Our findings shed light not only on the impact of scientific knowledge on the policy-making process, but also on the particular focus of policy documents indexed by Overton on specific research areas.
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政策文件中引用的科学依据:来自奥弗顿数据库的证据
为了反映科学在政策文件中的引用程度,本文探讨了 2010 年至 2019 年间发表的超过 1800 万篇《科学网》(Web of Science)收录的出版物中是否存在政策文件引用。结果显示,数据集中有 3.9% 的出版物至少被政策文件引用过一次。政策文件的引用呈现出对新出版出版物的引用延迟现象,并显示出评论和文章这两种文件类型更占优势。根据 Overton 数据库,社会科学和人文科学领域的出版物在政策文件引用中的相对比例最高,其次是生命科学和地球科学以及生物医学和健康科学。我们的研究结果不仅揭示了科学知识对政策制定过程的影响,还揭示了 Overton 索引的政策文件对特定研究领域的特别关注。
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