Revisiting the relationship between downloads and citations: a perspective from papers with different citation patterns in the case of the Lancet

We analyse the relationship between downloads of electronic journals included in four big deal bundles subscribed to by public university libraries affiliated to two library consortia in Spain (Castile and León and Galicia) and citations of the same journals by researchers at these universities. Download data on the big deals analysed (Emerald, ScienceDirect, Springer and Wiley) were obtained from COUNTER Journal Reports 1, and citation data were obtained from the bibliographic references given in articles indexed in Scopus between 2010 and 2017. The results show that only a low percentage of the subscribed journals was used in the scientific output of the universities’ researchers, with values ranging from 15 to 50%, and that there was a strong correlation between the universities’ volume of scientific production and the percentage of cited journals. We also found a strong correlation between downloads and citations, which was higher in the case of universities with a higher scientific output.

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Use of scientific journals in Spanish universities: analysis of the relationship between citations and downloads in two university library consortia

Fernández-Ramos

Bravo

Diez-Diez

2023

Scientometrics

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A multi-dimensional analysis of usage counts, Mendeley readership, and citations for journal and conference papers

Tian,

Fang,

Wang

et al. 2024

Scientometrics

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Tian,

Wang,

et al. 2024

Scientometrics

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Revisiting the relationship between downloads and citations: a perspective from papers with different citation patterns in the case of the Lancet

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Use of scientific journals in Spanish universities: analysis of the relationship between citations and downloads in two university library consortia

Use of scientific journals in Spanish universities: analysis of the relationship between citations and downloads in two university library consortia

A multi-dimensional analysis of usage counts, Mendeley readership, and citations for journal and conference papers

Does Granger causality exist between article usage and publication counts? A topic-level time-series evidence from IEEE Xplore

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