论文标题
Overton-策略文件引用的文献计量数据库
Overton -- A bibliometric database of policy document citations
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论文摘要
本文介绍了对Overton政策文件数据库的分析，描述了索引的材料的构成以及他们引用学术文献的性质。我们报告数据的各个方面，包括增长，地理位置传播，语言表示，包括的策略源类型范围以及文档中引文链接的可用性。对已建立期刊类别方案的纵向分析用于揭示引用的规模和学科重点，并确定开发野外标准化引用指标的可行性。我们研究了英国资助者收集的自我报告的资金结果与Overton数据库中索引的数据相对应，以及对英国研究卓越框架（REF）2014年衡量影响的同行评估评估是否与派生的引文指标相关。我们的发现表明，对于某些研究主题，例如健康，经济学，社会护理和环境，Overton包含了一套核心的政策文件，并与学术文献有足够的引文联系，以支持各种引用分析，这些分析可能在研究评估，影响评估和政策审查中提供信息。 Overton索引的数据与通过资助结果的自我报告收集的数据一致，并且与某些学科的影响评估评估有关。
This paper presents an analysis of the Overton policy document database, describing the makeup of materials indexed and the nature in which they cite academic literature. We report on various aspects of the data, including growth, geographic spread, language representation, the range of policy source types included, and the availability of citation links in documents. Longitudinal analysis over established journal category schemes is used to reveal the scale and disciplinary focus of citations and determine the feasibility of developing field-normalized citation indicators. We examine how well self-reported funding outcomes collected by UK funders corresponds to data indexed in the Overton database, and if peer-review assessment of impact as measured by the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 correlates with derived citation metrics. Our findings show that for some research topics, such as health, economics, social care and the environment, Overton contains a core set of policy documents with sufficient citation linkage to academic literature to support various citation analysis that may be informative in research evaluation, impact assessment, and policy review. The data indexed in Overton agrees with that collected via self-reporting of funding outcomes, and correlates with peer-review assessment of impact in some disciplines.
