Digital Scholarship 2010 Use Statistics

Digital Scholarship received over 9.2 million file requests ("hits") in 2010. There were over 3.3 million page views (i.e., HTML pages, PDF files, text files, or Word files). There were over 1.4 million visitors. Visitors came from 208 countries.

The top 10 countries by number of visitors were:

  1. United States
  2. France
  3. United Kingdom
  4. Germany
  5. China
  6. Canada
  7. Russian Federation
  8. Japan
  9. Australia
  10. Brazil

The top ten identified universities using Digital Scholarship by number of page views were:

  1. University of Sydney
  2. Harvard University
  3. Universitaet zu Koeln
  4. University of Waterloo
  5. Nanyang Technological University
  6. University of Washington
  7. Library and Archives Canada
  8. Universitaet Hamburg
  9. University of Toronto
  10. University of Michigan

The Digital Scholarship publications with the heaviest use were DigitalKoans (over 5.7 million hits and over 2.4 million page views) and the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (over 1.2 million hits and over 489,000 page views).

The analysis was done using WebLog Expert.