Digital Scholarship—15.9 Million Hits Later
Since it was established in April 2005, Digital Scholarship has gotten over 15.9 million file requests of which over 10.1 million were page views (page views exclude image and zip files). Over 5.4 million requests were from spiders.
| Year | File Requests (Rounded to nearest thousand) |
|---|---|
| 2005 | 353,000 |
| 2006 | 2,009,000 |
| 2007 | 4,971,000 |
| 2008 | 8,570,000 |
There have been over 3.4 million visitors from 214 countries. The top 20 countries were:
- United States
- France
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- China
- Germany
- Sweden
- Japan
- Italy
- Australia
- Russian Federation
- Republic of Korea
- India
- Netherlands
- Brazil
- Spain
- Ukraine
- Israel
- Czechia
- Poland
The top 20 academic institutions ranked by number of visitors were:
- Cornell University
- University of California, Office of the President
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
- École de Technologie Supérieure
- University of Illinois
- University at Albany, State University of New York
- University of Helsinki
- Iowa State University
- University of Wolverhampton
- Stanford University
- Universitäet Müenster
- King's College London
- University of Sydney
- University of Cambridge
- Universität Bielefeld
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- University of California
- Lund University
- Brigham Young University
- Ohio State University
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