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:

  1. United States
  2. France
  3. United Kingdom
  4. Canada
  5. China
  6. Germany
  7. Sweden
  8. Japan
  9. Italy
  10. Australia
  11. Russian Federation
  12. Republic of Korea
  13. India
  14. Netherlands
  15. Brazil
  16. Spain
  17. Ukraine
  18. Israel
  19. Czechia
  20. Poland

The top 20 academic institutions ranked by number of visitors were:

  1. Cornell University
  2. University of California, Office of the President
  3. Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
  4. École de Technologie Supérieure
  5. University of Illinois
  6. University at Albany, State University of New York
  7. University of Helsinki
  8. Iowa State University
  9. University of Wolverhampton
  10. Stanford University
  11. Universitäet Müenster
  12. King's College London
  13. University of Sydney
  14. University of Cambridge
  15. Universität Bielefeld
  16. Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  17. University of California
  18. Lund University
  19. Brigham Young University
  20. Ohio State University

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