Citation transparency (in formation)
This page will document external citations of Policy Window content once the underlying charter clause is adopted and entries accumulate. It is currently a scaffold — no externally-verified citations have been logged. We do not solicit citations; this surface only records ones that occur. Comparator peers (CSET, OECD.AI, Stanford HAI) carry similar disclosures via implicit institutional weight; PW documents the absence honestly rather than performing influence we have not earned.
What "in formation" measures against: the 12-month reach targets at /wiki/goals G3 (≥10 documented researcher citations), G4 (≥3 regulator citations), G5 (≥5 journalist citations), and G6 (≥3 civil-society citations). Empty today is the baseline; this log filling up is the success signal.
Why this exists. Per the proposed charter §7.8 revision (under public comment), every PW-published policy position or regulatory-submission contribution is logged here at publication time. We also accept submissions from third parties ("you cited PW in our paper, you might want to log it") — see below.
Comparator: CSET Georgetown documents its policy influence via named DoD-workshop participation, Congressional citations, press coverage. OECD.AI documents its 49-member-state adoption of the OECD AI Recommendation. PW lacked any equivalent surface; this tracker closes that gap.
Citation log
The log starts empty by design. We log a citation only after the editorial board verifies a public URL where someone independently cited PW. We do not log social-media mentions, blog posts without editorial weight, or unverifiable claims.
What we can already point at today, without waiting for citations to accumulate:
- The catalog is open and machine-readable since the catalog is open and machine-readable — see /wiki/api for the OpenAPI surface, /wiki/persistent-id for the ?asOf= snapshot URL scheme, and /llms.txt for the AI-agent ingestion guide.
- Catalog content is CC BY 4.0; the citation graph is CC0 per I4OC. Anyone can cite without license review — see charter §5.
- Aggregate referrer + AI-agent fetch counts surface at /wiki/citation-reach (no per-user data, no IPs, no fingerprints).
Submit a citation
If you cited Policy Window content in a regulator document, a peer-reviewed paper, hearing testimony, a civil-society submission, or noticed it cited by an AI assistant, please let us know so we can verify and log it. We do not solicit or curate citations; we only document those that occur.
Today, please email hello@policywindow.org with: (a) the citing document URL, (b) the PW URL cited (with ?asOf= if you used a pinned snapshot), (c) the date observed, (d) one-line context. The structured POST /api/influence-tracker/submit endpoint ships on the roadmap (see /wiki/roadmap).
What gets logged + what doesn't
- Every documented citation must be verifiable at a public URL (regulator doc, paper, hearing transcript, news article, AI-assistant transcript captured by the submitter).
- We do not log unverifiable claims ("I saw it cited once"). We do not log social-media mentions or blog posts without editorial weight.
- We do log AI-assistant transcripts (Claude / ChatGPT / Perplexity / Gemini) where the transcript URL is sharable and the PW citation is preserved in the rendered output.
- Aggregate AI-agent fetch counts (no per-user data, no IPs) appear separately at /wiki/citation-reach. The tracker here is for cited content, not fetched content.
- Every logged entry is reviewed by the editorial board before publication. Disputed entries go through charter §7.2 disagreement-resolution.