CrossRef Provides List of Top 10 Website DOI Referring Domains During 2015 and Early 2016
CrossRef’s Joe Wass Writes:
This information is interesting because it shows not only where DOI hyperlinks are found across the web, but also when they are actually followed. This data allows us a glimpse into scholarly citation beyond references in traditional literature.
We have filtered out domains that belong to Crossref member publishers to highlight citations beyond traditional publications.
Here are numbers 10-7.
10. google.co.uk
9. ebsco.com
8. uni-trier.de
7. google.com
The complete Top 10 list, both charts, and links to some useful CrossRef tools are available here.
The post also includes a chart showing HTTP vs. HTTPs referral traffic during 2015 and early 2016.
By the way, it’s worth noting that the second most popular referring domain (see the list) has a scholarly/academic search site like Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic. You can see it here ||| translated version here (poor) ||| search results page here (better).
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.