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2.1 Comparative analysis of user platform preferences

After analyzing sample data crawled above, the metadata to explore user platform preferences
mainly consists of disciplines, platform types, journals, downloads and citations. The data above
are statistically analyzed as follows.
(1) Descriptive statistics
In perspective of disciplines (as shown in Table 2), average downloads per article on journal
official websites is greater than CNKI in most disciplines (only “Management Science” is
excluded), which indicates that users generally prefer open access journal official websites rather
than pay-for-access information integration platform to obtain required papers. By summarizing
average download per article on official websites and CNKI, it reveals that “Earth Science” has the
highest downloads, then “Library, Information and Archival Science”, “Economics”, “Pedagogy”,
“Biology” and “Management Science”, while “Computer Science” and “Math” are the least.
In addition, average downloads per article on CNKI of social sciences are higher than natural
sciences.

Table 2. Descriptive statistics of usage data in eight disciplines
Discipline Type Median Mean Mean in total
Library, Information and Website download 366 894.9 1,389
Archival Science CNKI download 270 494.4
Website download 334 434.1
Management Science 928
CNKI download 362 493.9
Website download 287 761.4
Economics 1,339
CNKI download 370.5 577.2

Website download 371 586.1
Pedagogy 1,139
CNKI download 312.5 553.2
Website download 369 517.3
Computer Science 663
CNKI download 95 146.1
Website download 475 1978.3
Earth Science 2,221
CNKI download 175 242.9
Website download 289 359.6
Math 434
CNKI download 52 75.2
Website download 494 900.2
Biology 1,134
CNKI download 153 233.5