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CHEN Bikun, ZHOU Huixian, ZHONG Zhouyan & WANG Yuefen / Exploring the user platform preference and  101
                                           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
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