{"id":760,"date":"2019-07-16T17:26:11","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T17:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/?p=760"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:03:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:03:07","slug":"edinburgh-research-explorer-er-data-january-june-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/2019\/07\/16\/edinburgh-research-explorer-er-data-january-june-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Research Explorer | ER-data: Jan. &#8211; June 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/201900.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/201900.png\" alt=\"Edinburgh Research Explorer | ER-data: January 2019 - June 2019\" width=\"996\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nEdinburgh Research Explorer\u00a0\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.research.ed.ac.uk\">www.research.ed.ac.uk<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 ERdata: Jan.  &#8211; June 2019<\/p>\n<p>The first six-months of 2019, as now seems inevitable, have proved to be the busiest six-months in\u00a0Edinburgh Research Explorer&#8217;s brief history, with\u00a0543,152 downloads. This is not only\u00a0the first time that the half-a-million milestone has been breached within such a short period, but represents a 35% increase on the previous best. As the chart below indicates, this rate of growth is\u00a0unprecedented following a full 6-months:<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20191a.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20191a.png\" alt=\"Edinburgh Research Explorer: downloads May 2017- June 2019, in six-monthly blocks\" \/><\/a><figcaption style='font-size: 0.8em;line-height: 1.6em;padding: 1em 0 2em 0;width: 100%;font-style:italic'>Fig i. Edinburgh Research Explorer: downloads May 2017- June 2019, in six-monthly blocks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This report aims to offer an overview of the last six-months of download activity on Edinburgh Research Explorer. The data generated through the IRUS-UK download statistics portal is somewhat limited, it won&#8217;t tell us much about the users, in terms of who is downloading what, but it will offer up a few broad\u00a0clues. This report will investigate\u00a0those clues under the following headings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#dl_country\">a. Downloads by\u00a0Country<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#dl_item-type\">b. Downloads by Item-type<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#dl_title\">c. Downloads by Title<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[Also available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/ERX_ERdata_2019-06e.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PDF<\/a>]<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<hr id=\"dl_country\">\n<p><u><strong>a. Downloads by\u00a0Country:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20193a-1024x483bbb.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20193a-1024x483bbb.png\" alt=\"Edinburgh Research Explorer: downloads by 'country', January 2019 - June 2019\" width=\"1203\" height=\"666\" \/><\/a><figcaption style='font-size: 0.8em;line-height: 1.6em;padding: 1em 0 2em 0;width: 100%;font-style:italic'>Fig ii. Edinburgh Research Explorer: downloads by &#8216;country&#8217;, January 2019 &#8211; June 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the biggest proportion of downloads occur from within the UK (37%), with the US at 20% the only other major market. The other significant audiences can be summed up as the major economies of the English-speaking world, followed by our near-neighbours (with Italy being the only European country above 5k, with which we don&#8217;t share a sea\u00a0border), and China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Rest Of The World&#8217; as a block accounted for 21% of the downloads, but that block was made up of 208 other countries and territories.<\/p>\n<p>Downloads from China may be significantly under-reported in these figures, whilst the data affords us no actual evidence for this conclusion, downloads from &#8216;Unknown&#8217; have shown an upward trend over the last six-months, increasing by over a thousand-per-month from January to June,\u00a0and the only two countries showing a significant fall-off over the period are India (-700-per-month) and China (-1000-per-month). Additionally, the graph below would seem to indicate a certain symbiosis, with\u00a0a pattern distinct from any other country in the top 30:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20193.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20193.png\" alt=\"Edinburgh Research Explorer: monthly downloads by selected \u2018Countries\u2019, January 2019 - June 2019\" width=\"1096\" height=\"517\" \/><\/a><figcaption style='font-size: 0.8em;line-height: 1.6em;padding: 1em 0 2em 0;width: 100%;font-style:italic'>Fig iii. Edinburgh Research Explorer: monthly downloads by selected \u2018Countries\u2019, January 2019 &#8211; June 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<table class=\"table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">&nbsp;<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Jan.<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Feb.<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Mar.<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Apr.<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">May.<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Jun.<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">China<\/th>\n<td>4.6k<\/td>\n<td>3.2k<\/td>\n<td>4.7k<\/td>\n<td>4.5k<\/td>\n<td>3.9k<\/td>\n<td>3.5k<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">&#8216;Unknown&#8217;<\/th>\n<td>3.4k<\/td>\n<td>3.0k<\/td>\n<td>4.3k<\/td>\n<td>3.9k<\/td>\n<td>3.6k<\/td>\n<td>4.4k<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">India<\/th>\n<td>2.1k<\/td>\n<td>2.0k<\/td>\n<td>1.9k<\/td>\n<td>1.7k<\/td>\n<td>1.7k<\/td>\n<td>1.5k<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr id=\"dl_item-type\">\n<p><u><strong>b. Downloads by\u00a0Item-type:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20194.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20194.png\" alt=\"Edinburgh Research Explorer downloads by item-type, January - June 2019\" width=\"979\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><figcaption style='font-size: 0.8em;line-height: 1.6em;padding: 1em 0 2em 0;width: 100%;font-style:italic'>Fig iv. Edinburgh Research Explorer downloads by item-type, January &#8211; June 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Predictably, articles make up 80% of the item-types; &#8216;Unknown&#8217; = 9%, &#8216;Other&#8217; = 5%, Books = 4%, and Workshop\/Conference Papers just 2%.<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr id=\"dl_title\">\n<p><u><strong>c. Downloads by\u00a0Title:<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p>As stated in the introduction, in\u00a0total there were 543,152 downloads over the first six-months of 2019, the most popular title accounted for a little over 20,000 of them (3.80%).<\/p>\n<p>The nine remaining titles in the top 10, accounted for a further 32,024 downloads (5.9%); the top 10 as a whole, accounted for almost 10%. So as would be expected, the download statistics exhibit a very long tail, How long? Well, the remaining 90.3% of the downloads were distributed amongst 35,432 titles; of those, 7,957 titles (22%) were only downloaded once.<\/p>\n<p>The Top 10:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>10.\u00a0&#8216;<em>The \u2018blemish of place\u2019: Stigma, geography and health inequalities. A commentary on Tabuchi, Fukuhara &amp; Iso<\/em>&#8216;\u00a0by\u00a0Pearce, Jamie.<br \/>&nbsp;\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Article<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> December 2012<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Geosciences<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong>\u00a02,275 in 2019 \/\u00a03,096 in total (73%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> UK (99%) in 2019<br \/>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong> May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 442 January 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0URL:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2JG87if\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2JG87if<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>09.\u00a0&#8216;<em>Youth Crime and Justice: Key Messages from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime<\/em>&#8216;\u00a0by\u00a0McAra, Lesley; McVie, Susan. <br \/>&nbsp;\n<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Article<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> May 2010<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Law<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong>\u00a02,335 in 2019 \/\u00a07,513 in total (31%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> UK (92%) in 2019<br \/>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong>  May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 559 May 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2JHoVW6\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2JHoVW6<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>08.\u00a0&#8216;<em>Closing the attainment gap in Scottish schools: Three challenges in an unequal society<\/em>&#8216;\u00a0by\u00a0McCluskey, Gillean.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> \n<p> \u00a0\u00a0 <strong>\u00a0Item-type:<\/strong> Article<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> March 2017<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0Moray House School of Education; Centre for Research in Education Inclusion and Diversity (CREID)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong>\u00a02,667 in 2019 \/\u00a03,998 in total (67%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> UK (98%) in 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong>  May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 548 March 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2lqr4gn\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2lqr4gn<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>07.\u00a0&#8216;<em>Payment of Another&#8217;s Debt, Unjustified Enrichment and ad hoc Agency<\/em>&#8216; by\u00a0Macgregor, Laura; Whitty, Niall R.<br \/>&nbsp;\n<p> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Article<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> January 2011<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Law<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong>\u00a02,861 in 2019 \/\u00a02,963 in total (97%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> UK (98%) in 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong>  May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 1,090 March 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2JHoVW6\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2JHoVW6<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>06.\u00a0&#8216;<em>Abandoned, Orphaned or Property for Ever? Copyright, Prescription and Personal Bar<\/em>&#8216; by\u00a0MacQueen, Hector.<br \/>&nbsp;\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Article<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> 2010<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Law<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong>\u00a02,922 in 2019 \/ 5,936 in total (49%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> UK (99%) in 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong>  July 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 671 April 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2LomhaL\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2LomhaL<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>05.\u00a0&#8216;<em>Personality Structure in the Domestic Cat (Felis silvestris catus), Scottish Wildcat (Felis silvestris grampia), Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia), and African Lion (Panthera leo): A Comparative Study<\/em>&#8216;\u00a0by\u00a0Gartner, Marieke Cassia; Powell, David M.; Weiss, Alexander.<br \/>&nbsp;\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Article<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> Aug 2014<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong> 3,901 in 2019 \/ 36,366 in total (11%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> USA (51%) in 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong>  May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 16,509 March 2018<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/328jp71\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/328jp71<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>04.\u00a0&#8216;<em>The Reform of the Law of Directors&#8217; Duties in UK Company Law<\/em>&#8216; by\u00a0Cabrelli, David.<br \/>&nbsp;\n<p> \u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Conference or Workshop Item &#8211; Other<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> 2008<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0School of Law<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong> 4,313 in 2019 \/ 6,147 in total (70%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> UK (59%) in 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong>  May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 1,072 March 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2woSUM3\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2woSUM3<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>03.\u00a0&#8216;<em>Is football bigotry confined to the west of Scotland? The Heart of Midlothian and\u00a0Hibernian Rivalry<\/em>&#8216; by\u00a0Kelly, John.<br \/>&nbsp;\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Article<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> Jun 2013<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0Moray House School of Education<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong> 4,972 in 2019 \/ 6,466 in total (77%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> USA (72%) in 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong> May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 1,434 May 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2IcSwHv\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2IcSwHv<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>02.\u00a0&#8216;<em>Tubby&#8217;s dub style:The live art of record production<\/em>&#8216; by\u00a0Williams, Sean.<br \/>&nbsp;\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Article<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> September 2012<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0Edinburgh College of Art<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong> 5,610 in 2019 \/ 19,982 in total (28%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> USA (71%) in 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong>  May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 1,380 June 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2wr74fE\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2wr74fE<\/a><\/li>\n<hr>\n<li>01.\u00a0&#8216;<em>FISH BONE one-person exhibition:recent works by Jonathan Gibbs at the Open Eye Gallery<\/em>&#8216;\u00a0by Gibbs, Jonathan.<br \/>&nbsp;\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Item-type:<\/strong> Other<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Published:<\/strong> September 2013<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Affiliated to:<\/strong>\u00a0Edinburgh College of Art<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Downloads:<\/strong> 20,650 in 2019 \/ 27,002 in total (76%)<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Audience:<\/strong> USA (52%) in 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>1st downloaded:<\/strong>  May 2017 \u2022 <strong>Peak:<\/strong> 9,686 March 2019<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>URL:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edin.ac\/2wp4Ptp\">https:\/\/edin.ac\/2wp4Ptp<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amongst the difficulties inherent in trying interpret raw data, especially with items originating in a multi-disciplinary environment like a  University and being downloaded all over the world, can be the ignorance of all the possible external factors. A prime example might be the &#8216;FISH BONE one-person exhibition&#8230;&#8217;.\u00a0Having been published nearly four-years before Edinburgh\u00a0Research Explorer made its debut, it bumbled along in the first year\u00a0mostly being downloaded less than 20 times a month &#8211; the odd vacation out to the mid-thirties notwithstanding. In the 2nd-year, it was barely breaking out of single figures before October &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20195.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/files\/2019\/07\/20195.png\" alt=\"Edinburgh Research Explorer: FISH BONE monthly downloads from May 2017 - June 2019\" width=\"957\" height=\"567\" \/><\/a><figcaption style='font-size: 0.8em;line-height: 1.6em;padding: 1em 0 2em 0;width: 100%;font-style:italic'>Fig v. Edinburgh Research Explorer: FISH BONE monthly downloads from May 2017 &#8211; June 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Suddenly it was set alight, and for the next six months went  supernova.\u00a0 And then two-months ago, it err, &#8230; fizzled out. This pattern has been driven by the American audience, with the USA accounting for at least 50% of the downloads since the start. Curiously after that, at least in 2019, the next major market has been Turkey (7%), followed by France (4%) and only then the UK at 3%.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Obviously a sample of just 10 items won&#8217;t reveal any significant patterns, but it does offer some loose threads to pull on: all ten items in the top 10 were published before Research Explorer was established, from\u00a09 years to just\u00a02 months before; Four of the ten came from the School of Law, but the two from ECA were massively\u00a0more popular, but that popularity was overwhelmingly driven by the USA; 9\/10 titles had their busiest month in this 6-month period, which shows that even though recency of publication doesn&#8217;t seem to be a factor there are currents at play; But only 6\/10 had more than 50% of their total downloads in these six months, suggesting some deeper, more residual currents are also a factor. The bottom half of the top ten are all appealing almost exclusively to a home audience, suggesting popularity at home doesn&#8217;t lead to interest further afield &#8211; although the subject matter of four of the five would seem to explain that.<\/p>\n<p>How to pull on those threads is another matter: a bigger sample size would be an obvious starting point; comparisons with other repositories&#8217; data might be more illuminating; gleaning some scraps of data from publishers for the same titles, and comparing those with the numbers of citations, references, and tweets etc. might unpick a few knots. <\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edinburgh Research Explorer\u00a0\u2022 www.research.ed.ac.uk\u00a0\u2022 ERdata: Jan. &#8211; June 2019 The first six-months of 2019, as now seems inevitable, have proved to be the busiest six-months in\u00a0Edinburgh Research Explorer&#8217;s brief history, with\u00a0543,152 downloads. This is not only\u00a0the first time that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/2019\/07\/16\/edinburgh-research-explorer-er-data-january-june-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,49,9,13,35],"tags":[63,27,66,12,31,51],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcqGb1-cg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/openscholarship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}