Sage Policy Profiles
New for 2026: Sage Policy Profiles now includes a feature that matches researchers with live policy engagement opportunities based on their research, biography, and countries of interest.
Sage Policy Profiles is a free, browser-based tool that helps researchers track their policy impact and discover opportunities to engage with policymakers. Powered by Overton, the world’s largest searchable index of policy documents, the tool offers two core functionalities: a policy citation tracker and a personalized policy matcher.
Getting started is simple:
- Create a free profile.
- Check your personalized dashboard for policy mentions and engagement opportunities.
- Share your feedback in a brief survey.
What’s new: Personalized opportunities to engage with policymakers
The new policy matcher connects researchers directly with live, relevant policy engagement opportunities based on their research, biography, and countries of interest.
How it works:
- Powered by Overton Engage’s researcher matching technology.
- Draws from 4,000+ policy opportunities across 130+ global sources.
- Finds up to three personalized opportunities each month.
- Sends optional email alerts when new matches appear.
In a recent Sage survey, 92 percent of social and behavioral scientists said the ultimate goal of research is to benefit society. Many researchers want their work to make a real-world difference, but finding the right entry points to policy engagement can be challenging. This update helps streamline that first step, simplifying the search for relevant opportunities.
Track, visualize, and share your policy impact
Sage Policy Profiles also helps researchers understand how their work is influencing policy and gives them tools to communicate that impact. The personalized dashboard shows researchers exactly where their work is cited in policy documents and makes it easy for them to export policy mentions, visualize data in different formats, and share results with their networks.
The tool can be a game-changer for scholars working to improve policy. It helps broaden how we understand research impact from purely scholarly terms to how research benefits policy, practice, and the public. Researchers have cited interest in using the results on personal websites, in front of tenure and promotion committees, and in grant proposals.
While Sage Policy Profiles is designed for researchers across all disciplines, it’s especially useful for social and behavioral scientists, a field with an outsized impact on policy. We’ve highlighted the tool on Social Science Space to support policy-focused SBS researchers and to bring attention to the unique, real-world value social and behavioral science brings.
Explore examples of the visualizations available on Sage Policy Profiles below, then try the free tool for yourself.
