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Influence tracker

Public log of documented external citations of Policy Window — every regulator document, legislative footnote, hearing testimony, peer-reviewed paper, civil-society submission, and AI-assistant transcript we have verified cites PW content. This is documentation of influence, not generation of influence: PW records what others did with the catalog, third-party-observable, externally verifiable.

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.

Summary (0 documented citations)

No documented citations yet. This tracker launched as part of the iter-316 reconfiguration plan. The editorial board will seed the initial entries from a backlog scan; external submissions open immediately at the form below. This empty state is honest reporting per /wiki/methodology §11 — we don't fabricate influence.

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 in Wave 2 of the iter-316 plan.

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 (Wave 3 ship). 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.