Talk:PubMan Func Spec Statistics

Scenarios

Comments and Discussions see talk/discussion page.

Basic PubMan item statistics

The public user wants to get hints on reception of a certain article and would like to see the download numbers of a specific preprint when accessing the item page in PubMan.

Interpretations/Analysis

• google/google scholar

The author wants to understand the visibility of his research. He wants to understand how often is article is accessed based on a hit by google/google scholar search.

• geographical distribution

The author wants to understand the geografical distribution of research interest.

• domain statistics

The author wants to understand the background of users accessing his research and would like to understand the domain they are coming from, such as .com, .edu, .gov

• institutional statistics

The author wants to know how if his publication is accessed by colleagues from the same or neighbour departments of his institution.

Most of these requirements need the analysis of IP-addresses to get geographic or location-specific information of the user. It is not directly supported by the eSciDoc coreservice to automatically gather and store these IP-addresses. Thus, this must be realized in the solution. But then we have the problem that more than one solution can access one repository and it can even be accessed without any solution, e.g. by REST-interface. These requests wouldn't be counted and the statistic is distorted --Haarlaender 08:58, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

In any case, any provision of statistical data has to have a "disclaimer" how to read and understand the statistics. --Ulla 17:10, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Visualisations

The author wants to get statistical data and its analyses/interpretations adequately visualised by graphs, timelines, diagrams and geografical maps.

Reports

Based on administrative searches (queries on demand and saved searches), reports (item lists and/or numbers) can be delivered:

Current coverage in the repository

• The author wants to have an overview on all his records deposited and released

• The institution wants to have an overview on all records of specific department deposited and released

Open Access

• The author wants to have an overview on all his records with at least one OA component
• The author wants to have an overview on the number of OA components
• The institution wants to have an overview on the number of OA components per department
• The OA policy department would like to prepare a statistical report on increase of OA publications in the last 2 years, with details on monthly level, for the MPS. (See more scenarios under OA statistics)
• The local Press department needs reliable numbers of record entries per department, including the number of fulltexts. They would like to get the numbers in a re-usable format, e.g. XML.

Requirements

Basic item/component statistics

Status: implemented (see Use case view item statistics

Schedule: R3

• Numbers of retrievals for a specific item from the framework by users (anonymous/all).
  • Visibility: public
• Numbers of file downloads for a specific item by users (anonymous/all).
  • Visibility: public

Downloads of files with content type “copyright transfer agreement” and “correspondence” are not counted.

• Numbers of downloads for a specific file by users (anonymous/all
  • Visibility: public

Future developments

• Co-authoring
  • The author wants to understand how many of his papers are co-authored.
  • The author wants to understand how many of his papers are co-authored with members of Institution X.

• Cross-repository
  • The author wants to know the number of items related to his name across the collection/contexts in the repository.

• Harvesting statistics
  • The public user wants to get an overview on the reception a certain preprint, which is not limited to the local repository. He would like to see statistics on the download of the preprint by summing the download numbers of all copies located in distributed repositories.

It is not clear to me how this should be technically possible. Would require to retrieve and accumulate statistic data from different repositories. Are these only eSciDoc-repositories or different types of repositories? Can they be accessed by only one application (e.g. PubMan) or by different ones? --Haarlaender 08:58, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

This scenario is related to standardized exchange of statistical data, e.g by using SUSHI. Adressing this requirement is scheduled for later releases, it's mentioned here for not getting lost. In addition, we have to exchange knowledge with Margit Palzenberger, she is quite deep into provision of statistical data by publishers. --Ulla 17:10, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

• Citation metrics/Research evaluation

• Private statistics
  • Some statistical information might be access restricted to the author himself or administrative staff.

Publication Management

Internet Protocol

Enhanced Scientific Documentation

Representational State Transfer

Coordinated Universal Time

Open Access

Max Planck Society

Extensible Markup Language