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user interest preference of Chinese scholarly articles: A comparison based on usage metrics

April 2nd, 2018. In addition, CNKI usage data is the combination of ‘‘PDF downloads’’ and ‘‘CAJ
downloads’’ (unique format developed by CNKI) and usage data of journal official websites are
abstract or full text HTML views and PDF downloads. Considering this, only CNKI downloads
and PDF downloads of journal official websites are compared in this study.

Table 1. Data set
# of
Discipline Journal lists
publications
Journal of Library Science in China; Information and Documentation Services;
Library, Information
and Archival Science 2,189 Document, Information & Knowledge;Journal of Intelligence; Journal of Modern
Information
Chinese Journal of Management; Chinese Journal of Management Science; System
Management Science 3,237 Engineering Theory and Practice; Scientific Decision Making; Science & Technology
Progress and Policy
Economist; Economic Theory and Business Management; China Review of Political
Economics 1,378 Economy; South China Journal of Economics; Journal of Guizhou College of Finance
and Economics; Research on Economics and Management
Journal of Higher Education Management; Journal of Graduate Education; Journal of
Pedagogy 1,152 East China Normal University (Educational Sciences); Distance Education Journal;
Academic Degrees & Graduate Education
Computer Engineering; Journal of Computer Applications; Computer Science;
Application Research of Computers; Computer Engineering and Applications; Journal
Computer Science 9,173
of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology; Computer Integrated Manufacturing
System; Journal of Chinese Computer Systems
Earth Science Frontiers; Chinese Journal of Geology; Scientific Journal of Earth
Science; Advances in Earth Science; Chinese Journal of Geophysics; Progress in
Earth Science 4,466 Geophysics; Natural Gas Geoscience; Oil Geophysical Prospecting; Journal of Geodesy
and Geodynamics; Bulletin of Mineralogy; Petrology and Geochemistry; Journal of Jilin
University (Earth Science Edition)
Advances in Mathematics; Acta Mathematica Sinica; Acta Mathematicae Applicatae
Math 1,418 Sinica; Acta Mathematica Scientia; Journal of Systems Science and Mathematical
Sciences; Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
Chinese Journal of Ecology; Biodiversity Science; Acta Microbiologica Sinica; Acta
Hydrobiologica Sinica; Biotechnology Bulletin; Chinese Journal of Biotechnology;
Microbiology China; Journal of Medical Biomechanics; Chinese Journal of Biological
Biology 6,055 Control; Chinese Journal of Biologicals; Journal of Ecology and Rural Environment;
Journal of Food Science and Biotechnology; Chinese Journal of Applied &
Environmental Biology; Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering;Chinese Journal of
Biochemistry Molecular Biology

1.2 Research scope and method

In data-driven research, the key to locate research scope and choose research methods is to
understand how data are generated and represented and to identify what and how research can be
done by utilizing data.
First of all, usage data of academic papers are generated in the process of academic