Meet Our Partners

Overton’s software helps organisations find, evidence, and grow the impact of research in policy. Our flagship product, Overton Index, is the world’s largest searchable database of policy documents and grey literature. Tracking millions of documents globally, it automatically maps where policy cites or references academic research, offering a unique lens into how evidence shapes real-world decisions that influence everyday life.

Stand out in a competitive landscape, understand and analyse the policy ecosystem, and highlight the role of research within it - all while supporting faculty and students across your institution - with Overton.

*Overton is proud to be a sponsor at STI-ENID 2026, reflecting our shared commitment to improving and enriching research assessment and expanding the suite of metrics and indicators used to understand research contributions and their societal impact.

Perspecti, a new initiative by Brepols, aims to improve how research in the Arts and Humanities (A&H) is represented and analysed within research information systems.

Perspecti is a comprehensive database that captures the publication landscape of A&H research. It responds directly to ongoing discussions within the STI community on responsible research assessment, in particular the need for more inclusive, field-sensitive indicators and data sources.

Current citation indexing systems tend to prioritise English-language journal publications from major publishers, offering only a partial view of scholarly activity in the A&H. Perspecti addresses this imbalance by systematically including a wider range of publication types, such as monographs, book chapters, and text editions, while also reflecting the multilingual nature of A&H scholarship across different language traditions.

The initiative is developed in collaboration with an Academic Board and aligns with key principles such as those outlined in the Leiden Manifesto and the Helsinki Initiative. These emphasise transparency, multilingualism, the use of field-sensitive indicators, and the importance of qualitative judgement in research evaluation.

By extracting citation data directly from footnotes and bibliographies, Perspecti enables more accurate and representative mappings of A&H research, particularly for book-based scholarship.

For the STI community, Perspecti offers a valuable infrastructure to support the development of more inclusive indicators, better reflect bibliodiversity, and strengthen the visibility of A&H research within global research information ecosystems.

More information: www.perspecti.net.

Digital Science develops tools and data resources to support research and innovation across the full research lifecycle.

For the STI community, Digital Science provides infrastructure and data that help to better understand how research is produced, shared, and used across science, policy, and society. Its portfolio includes platforms such as Overleaf (for collaborative writing), Figshare (for sharing research outputs and datasets), Dimensions (linking publications, grants, patents, and policy documents), and Altmetric (tracking and contextualising attention to research outputs).

Together, these tools contribute to mapping the relationships between different components of the research ecosystem and to supporting more comprehensive analyses of science and innovation.

Digital Science also supports the development of open and transparent research indicators. Through its Scientometric Researcher Access to Data (SRAD) programme, it offers scientometric researchers no-cost access to selected data resources, helping to lower barriers for research, reproducibility, and peer review.

We are grateful for Digital Science’s support of STI-ENID 2026 and its contribution to advancing data-driven and responsible approaches to understanding research and innovation.

Clarivate is a global provider of trusted intelligence, analytics, and workflow solutions that support research, education, and innovation. Through its data and analytical tools, Clarivate helps researchers, research organizations, funders, and policymakers better understand research performance, identify emerging trends, and support evidence-informed decision-making.

At STI-ENID 2026, Clarivate highlights Web of Science Research Intelligence (WoSRI), a platform that provides trusted data and analytics to support research strategy, evaluation, and policy. WoSRI enables institutions to analyze research performance, benchmark outcomes, and explore the evolving research landscape using contextualized and transparent indicators. In doing so, it contributes to ongoing discussions on responsible research assessment and the development of indicators that better reflect research quality, collaboration, integrity, and societal impact.

These objectives closely align with the conference theme, "Indicators for a Responsible Research Future", which explores how indicators can support more responsible, transparent, and inclusive approaches to research evaluation and science policy.

Clarivate is the sponsor of the Garfield Memorial Lecture, delivered by Koenraad Debackere on 9 September 2026. This keynote reflects on the historical and conceptual evolution of scientometrics and the role of indicators in shaping research policy and evaluation.

We are grateful to Clarivate for supporting the 30th Annual Science & Technology Indicators Conference.

The 30th Annual International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators has been made possible by the financial support of the Flemish government, Fonds Wetenschappelijk onderzoek.