Coherent Impact

Coherent Impact is a real-world impact intelligence platform that reveals how scholarly research is cited and used across policy, practice, and applied settings.

It combines powerful citation analytics with rich citation context to help organizations understand where research is making a difference and who is using it.

Coherent Impact helps universities demonstrate influence in society and the economy, strengthen impact reporting, and align research with institutional and funder priorities.

• Track policy and practice citations across government departments, NGOs, IGOs, and technical literature.
• Analyze research influence by country, organization type, and topic.
• Identify the policy and practice organizations citing your research.
• Review citation context to understand not just what was cited, but how and why.

• Build stronger impact narratives using citation evidence and context to support impact case studies, grant reporting, institutional research assessment, and donor communications.
• Export structured data for reports, evaluations, grant applications, and internal analysis.
• Compare your institution's policy and practice impact with peer organizations to better understand your research influence.

• Delivered as an integrated solution with Policy Commons and Applied Science Commons to support research discovery, visibility, and engagement.
• Identify who is using your research across sectors and geographies.
• Discover new audiences by analyzing who engages with similar work.
• Explore emerging topics based on patterns in policy and applied literature.
• Track key organizations relevant to your research priorities.
• Increase visibility of your outputs by making non-traditional content discoverable.

• Avoid link rot through Coherent's preserved copies and permanent identifiers (COIs) assigned to all indexed content
• Cite reliably, with long-term access to cited items assured — even when original sources disappear
• Access rescued and preserved at-risk content, including niche and regional materials

• Access more than 40 million policy and applied science documents globally
• Support comprehensive systematic reviews with content unavailable elsewhere
• Use integrated search and indexing tools across grey literature sources
• Get global discoverability for your content through inclusion in the Coherent Commons
• Enhance your visibility via search engines and discovery services