What is the Next Trend in Usage Statistics in Libraries?

King, Douglas

doi:10.1080/19411260902858276

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“…Editors and publishers want to increase readership as this affects the market value of their journal. Readership statistics help authors, librarians and publishers to assess readership (King 2009).…”

Section: Scientometric Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Readership of Educational Science Journals

Weimer¹,

Tunger²,

Rittberger³

2022

Preprint

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Readership is a necessary part of scientific communication and is important both in terms of internal science communication and for transfer performance into politics and society. Based on findings from a scientometric analysis, we have shown that the correlations between download numbers and citation numbers in educational research are strongly dependent on the journal. These correlations could not be shown across all journals, but we have seen that there are journals where correlations exist and that there are journals where no correlations exist. In order to further investigate the question of why the correlations only occur in relation to some educational science journals, we have put forward the idea that the differences are related to different readerships. In fact, the readership of educational journals is very diverse. It ranges from the scientific community to educational practitioners and the general public. We see this finding as characteristic of a SSH discipline. Furthermore, we were able to show that there are correlations between the classification of the educational journals into the three target group clusters and the corresponding correlation coefficients of the journals. If the journals exclusively address the scientific community, the correlations between download numbers and citation numbers are higher. The journals in the educational practice and public sphere clusters, on the other hand, do not give a clear indication of a weaker correlation. No patterns could be identified in this respect.

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Section: Scientometric Indicatorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Readership of Educational Science Journals

Weimer¹,

Tunger²,

Rittberger³

2022

Preprint

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“…Editors and publishers want to increase readership, since it impacts their journal's market value. Reading statistics will help authors, librarians and publishers to estimate the audiences (D. King, 2009).…”

Section: Journal Perception and Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Readership evaluation can analyze usage from different perspectives. Traditionally, the number of readers was measured through reshelving (D. King, 2009;Bar-Ilan, 2008), i.e. the number of times the volume of a journal was put back on the shelf by the librarian after being used, and examination of interlibrary loan and document delivery data (R. Schlögl & Gorraiz, 2006).…”

Section: Journal Perception and Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

Multidimensional Journal Evaluation: Analyzing Scientific Periodicals beyond the Impact Factor

Jacsó¹

2013

Online Information Review

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Knowledge and Information (K&I) is a peer-reviewed information science book series. The scope of information science comprehends representing, providing, searching and finding of relevant knowledge including all activities of information professionals (e.g., indexing and abstracting) and users (e.g., their information behavior). An important research area is information retrieval, the science of search engines and their users. Topics of knowledge representation include metadata as well as methods and tools of knowledge organization systems (folksonomies, nomenclatures, classification systems, thesauri, and ontologies). Informetrics is empirical information science and consists, among others, of the domain-specific metrics (e.g., scientometrics, webometrics), user and usage research, and evaluation of information systems. The sharing and the distribution of internal and external information in organizations are research topics of knowledge management. The information market can be defined as the exchange of digital information on networks, especially the World Wide Web. Further important research areas of information science are information ethics, information law, and information sociology.

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“…Given financial constraints and the rapid growth in interest in e-books, monitoring and evaluation of e-book usage is essential (Cox, 2009;King, 2009). Academic librarians should develop mechanisms for systematic evaluation of e-book usage.…”

Section: Monitoring and Reviewingmentioning

confidence: 99%