This document analyzes journal usage at Wageningen UR, a hybrid university and research organization in the Netherlands, based on article references between 2006-2011. It finds that Nature, PNAS, and Science are the most cited journals. It also examines journal citations for different research groups to determine core journals and similarities between groups. Journal citation data is then used to analyze costs of journal subscriptions and allocate costs across departments.
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Analysis of journal usage by Wageningen UR staff members via article references
1. Analysis of journal usage by Wageningen
UR staff members via article references
Based upon co-citation of journals in articles published
between 2006 and 2011
Marco G.P. van Veller, Wageningen UR Library
4. Research organization
Graduate schools (6 coordinated by Wageningen UR)
Research departments (5 at Wageningen UR)
● Animal, Plant, Environmental, Social,
Agrotechnology & Food Sciences)
Research institutes (9 at Wageningen UR)
Chair groups (92 with sometimes more than 1 chair)
Individual staff
7. Article downloads
Counter reports
IP range: 137.224.0.0-137.224.255.255
● not linked to research groups
Usage for Wageningen UR as a whole
8. “Real” article downloads
Representativeness of downloads for usage
Journal importance for research
● citing & publishing
9. Journal usage by staff members or groups
at Wageningen UR
Collection management (library)
● Include appropriate journals
● Cost allocation journal subscriptions over
departments
Journal recommendation (users)
● Core journals for scientific disciplines
Research strategies (management)
● Collaborations between groups
● Appointment of new staff
similarity analysis
30. Relative contribution per journal (example)
Relative number of references per journal
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5
Journal 1 0.21 0.26 0.25 0.23 0.04
Journal 2 0.05 0.00 0.53 0.55 0.50
Journal 3 0.72 0.68 0.00 0.02 0.26
Journal 4 0.02 0.02 0.20 0.18 0.20
Journal 5 0.00 0.04 0.02 0.02 0.00
31. Similarity between groups g and h based
upon relative contributions of citations in
journals j=1....n
32. Similarity between groups (example)
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5
Group 1 1 0.91 0.28 0.3 0.37
Group 2 0.91 1 0.29 0.29 0.32
Group 3 0.28 0.29 1 0.96 0.74
Group 4 0.3 0.29 0.96 1 0.74
Group 5 0.37 0.32 0.74 0.74 1
Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5
Number
of articles 20 4 18 7 35
36. References
Van Eck, N.J. & Waltman, L. (2011). VOSviewer version
1.4.0. Center for Science and Technology Studies. Leiden
University. Available via http://www.vosviewer.com/
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