2017: Year End Lists and Rankings Roundup
Altmetrics
Altmetric Top 100 2017 Released, Dataset Also Available to Download
Digital Collections
EU: Top 20 Searches on Europeana During 2017
NC: 2017’s Most Popular Items On DigitalNC
Libraries (Most Borrowed Books and Other Materials)
BC: Most Borrowed Items: Vancouver Public Library (via CBC)
CA: Top Library Checkouts in 2017: San Diego County Library
CO: Most Borrowed Items: Denver Public Library (via Denverite)
DC: DC Public Library Releases 2017 Most Borrowed, Downloaded, Streamed Items (By Type and Format, 12 Lists Overall)
MA: Boston Public Library’s Top Borrowed Titles Of 2017, Library Adds Nearly 83,000 New Cardholders in 2017
MN: Hennepin County Libraries Buy 700k Books A Year – Here Are The Most Popular Of 2017″ (via StarTribune)
NY: Top Checkouts (Books) at the New York Public Library
OH: Most Borrowed Items at Dayton Public Library (via DDN)
ON: Most Borrowed Items the Toronto Public Library
TX: Most Popular Books and Ebooks at San Antonio Public Library (via Texas Public Radio)
VA: Top Books for 2017 in Fairfax County
Preprints
Center for Open Science (COS) Releases Top 100 Most-Viewed Preprints, 2017
“Most-Viewed Preprints Amongst the 18 Open Science Framework-Hosted (OSF) Services”
See Also: More Open Science Framework 2017 Statistics
SSRN Top Papers of 2017 (via SSRN Blog)
Scholarly Publishing
Top 10 Retractions of 2017 (as Selected by Retraction Watch; via The Scientist)
Wikimedia
Most-Edited Articles on the English Wikipedia, 2017 (via Wikimedia Blog)
Top 50 Most-Read Articles on the English Wikipedia in 2017
Other
Open Access: Ubiquity Press Year in Review
What People Watched on Sling During 2017
MORE LISTS TO COME
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About Gary Price
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.