Coherent Impact is a real-world impact intelligence platform that reveals how research is used across policy, practice, and applied settings. It supports REF-style impact narratives, grant justification, translational research, and equity-driven global relevance. Today, it covers 40 million items from more than 33,000 organizations, and coverage expands continually.
Coherent Impact helps universities demonstrate influence in society and the economy—and makes it easy to align research with funder priorities.
Coherent Impact covers tens of thousands of organizations around the world
More types of organizations—government, corporate, medical, scientific, nonprofit, research, and others
A greater range of formats—reports, datasets, podcasts, videos, blogs, and other new media
Broader geographic reach—with special attention to the Global South
No other resource comes close.
Organizations covered today, with more added continually
13,000 Think Tanks, NGOs, and Nonprofits: Trace academic ideas from large-scale testing to applied results, evaluations, and real-world programs—often ahead of formal policy adoption.
6,500 Organizations from the Global South: Show global relevance and equity by tracking research uptake across institutions tackling frontline policy, health, and development challenges.
2,400 Hospitals and Patient Groups: Reveal societal benefits and improved health outcomes by showing how research translates into clinical pathways, guidelines, and everyday care.
4,600 National Government Organizations: Demonstrate authoritative impact at scale—highly persuasive evidence for large public grants and long-term funding.
4,000 Local Governments: Show local impact, civic engagement and public ROI by tracking how research adopted by states, cities, and municipalities is incorporated, plans, and operating standards—evidence local funders increasingly demand.
700 Corporations: Show relevance for commerce, innovation, and productivity improvements by tracking research adopted in product decisions, standards, and innovation practice.
400,000 Podcasts, Videos, and Blogs: Trace how research shapes public discourse, professional practice, and policy debate across new media—often faster and further than through formal publications.
Custom Coverage: We work with you to add new organizations.
What tools will you use?
Use robust tools such as advanced Boolean search, rich metadata filters, and permanent identifiers to find where research is cited, reused, and embedded.
In Q2 2026, use new additional tools to track citations from policy and practice-based documents to scholarly research outputs. Analyze, assess, and report which organizations, sectors, and geographies are citing your work.
Explore citation contexts to see not just what was cited but why.
Who will use it?
Libraries: Expand collections to capture real-world policy and practice-based research beyond journal coverage. Enable impact assessment for researchers and administrators, while complementing traditional citation databases with real-world evidence others exclude.
Research Offices: Document and communicate how institutional research is taken up in policy, programs, and practice. Support real-world impact reporting, evaluation, and strategy. Find funding opportunities.
Researchers: See where your work informs real-world decisions. Discover new sources missing from your research. Understand how research is used outside academia.
Access and licensing
Beginning Q2 2026, Coherent Impact will be available as a single subscription that includes all modules of Policy Commons and Applied Science Commons.
It includes dashboards, analytics citation tools, API, and export functionality.
Contact sales@coherentdigital.net or your sales manager for details, trials, and pricing.
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