ORO download statistics
According to the latest set of Open Research Online (ORO) figures, I now have 15,391 total downloads. This makes me the 46th most downloaded researcher of the thousands on the OU system.
Checking back in my blog, my work had been downloaded 8,780 times last March. The change in the figures suggests my work is downloaded from ORO 80 times a day on average. This seems surprisingly high, and underlines the benefits of having research easily searchable and downloadable online.
Meanwhile, over on Google Scholar, all this downloading activity translates into 768 citations to date, or one citation for every 20 downloads. That rate has remained steady since March. I’m also surprised at that consistency – I would have expected the rate to vary because the download numbers are so very different.
I’m pleased to see that my thesis has now been downloaded 912 times. Open access makes it so much more easy to open doctoral research up to the world instead of leaving it languishing on the shelves of the author’s family.
Update on 3 January 2016
I now have 27,672 downloads on ORO – that’s 12,281 in the past 363 days or about 34 downloads a day over the last year. I have 1261 citations on Google Scholar – that’s one citation for every 22 ORO downloads.
Learning together online 
#1 by r3becca on January 12, 2015 - 9:46 am
According to Google Scholar, my publications have taken just 12 days to gain the same amount of citations in 2015 as they did in 2010 (18). Coincidentally, that is also my current i1- score; I have 18 publications that currently have ten or more citations.
#2 by r3becca on February 16, 2015 - 7:08 pm
It has taken 45 days for my publications to gain as many citations in 2015 as they did in 2011 (37). Next target – 100 citations, same as 2012.
#3 by r3becca on May 5, 2015 - 8:51 am
It has taken 125 days for my publications to gain as many citations in 2015 as they did in 2012 (that number has now risen to 102). Next target – 226, which is how many citations I currently have in Google Scholar for 2013.
#4 by r3becca on August 4, 2015 - 8:24 am
It has taken 216 days for my publications to gain as many citations in 2015 as they did in 2013. That number is currently 227. 2012 citations have now risen to 104, 2011 has gone down to 36 and 2010 has gone down to 17. My 22,380 ORO downloads translate into 1,074 citations – so it is now one citation per 20.84 downloads. I am currently 40th most downloaded OU author.