UCL Discovery 2011 annual statistics
By Erica D McLaren, on 9 February 2012
The 2011 annual download statistics are now available via http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/past_stats/annual-2011.html.
The total number of downloads for 2011 (584,965) sees a 10% increase on full text access in 2010. Apart from July and August 2011, monthly downloads totalled over 45,000 each month.
The origin of the downloads identifies the global interest in UCL research; of the 584,965 downloads for 2011, the top 10 countries for people accessing full text in UCL Discovery are the UK: 112,713 downloads (or 19.3% of the total), the United States: 101,536 (or 17.4%), France: 38,068 (or 6.5%), Germany: 23,543 (or 4%), China: 19,639 (or 3.4%), India: 18,102 (or 3.1%), Australia: 16,182 (or 2.8%), Japan: 12,441 (or 2.15), Canada: 11,729 (or 2%), and ‘Korea, Republic of’: 9,502 (or 1.6%). Please note that the percentages by country are for the total downloads in 2011 – interest by country varies item by item and can be seen in individual record statistics.
The 2011 annual downloads statistics also identifies the top 50 most downloaded items for the year. The most popular paper for 2011 was the IFS briefing paper ‘The ‘fat tax’: economic incentives to reduce obesity’ by Andrew Leicester and Frank Windmeijer, with 10,660 downloads. This paper has been the most downloaded paper for seven months in 2011, as seen in our monthly top 20 downloads.
Nine papers feature in the 2011 top 50 most downloaded items that were not in the monthly statistics for the same year. They include three UCL theses: from the Bartlett School of Planning – ‘The urban development of Damascus: a study of its past, present and future’ by Zara Lababedi; from the Eastman Dental Institute – ‘Factors Affecting Outcome of Non-Surgical Root Canal Treatment’ by Dr Yuan Ling Ng; and from the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies – ‘Digital fabrication inspired design: Influence of fabrication parameters on a design process’ by Agata Guzik.
The nine papers also include two IFS publications: ‘Evaluación del Programa Familias en Acción: Subsidios Condicionados de la Red de Apoyo Social. Informe de la Linea de Base (Ajustado)’ by Professor Orazio Attanasio, Professor Costas Meghir and Dr Marcos Marcos Vera-Hernandez; and ‘A retrospective on Friedman’s Theory of Permanent Income’ by Professor Costas Meghir.
The other four items new to the download statistics are: the UCL SSEES paper ‘Foreign Direct Investment and Restructuring in the Automotive Industry in Central and East Europe’ by Professor Slavo Radosevic; the UCL CASA paper ‘GIS and urban design’ by Professor Mike Batty, Dr Martin Dodge, Dr Bin Jiang, and Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith; the Space Syntax book chapter ‘Space is the machine, part one: theoretical preliminaries’ by Professor Bill Hillier; and the Road Safety Research report ‘Trends in fatal car-occupant accidents’ by Heather Ward, Dr Nicola Christie, Professor Ronan Lyons, Jeremy Broughton, Professor David Clarke and Patrick Ward.
