Replication Data for: Analysis of visits to ScienceCentral, an open access full-text archive of scientific society journal literature

ScienceCentral is a free or open access full-text archive of scientific society journal literature hosted by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. It was launched in December 2013. We analyzed the number of articles deposited, page views by period, country of visitors, number of visitors, and entry point of visits. Descriptive statistics were presented. We also hypothesized that visitors accessed ScienceCentral mostly through Google and Google Scholar since ScienceCentral allows Googlebot to index it. The number of deposited articles was 19,419 from 124 journals in December 2016. The number of page views per month was 20,228 in December 2016. The top countries of visitors were South Korea (39.9%), the United States (13.26%), India (4.2%), China (3.4%), and Russia (3.2%). The average number of page views per article a month in December 2016 was 1.0. Google and Google Scholar were powerful referral sites to ScienceCentral. Except for direct visits to ScienceCentral, seven out of the top ten access sites to ScienceCentral were Google or Google Scholar sites from a variety of countries. Although the number of visitors and page views has increased continuously, the average number of page views per article a month has not increased.

ScienceCentral是由韩国科学技术团体联合会（Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies）运维的免费开放获取科学学会期刊文献全文档案库，于2013年12月正式上线。本研究对该平台的收录文献总量、分时段页面访问量、访客来源国家、访客总数及访问入口开展了分析，并展示了描述性统计结果。本研究亦提出假设：鉴于ScienceCentral允许Googlebot对其进行索引，访客主要通过Google及Google Scholar访问该平台。截至2016年12月，该平台共收录来自124种期刊的19419篇文献；2016年12月的月页面访问量达20228次。访客来源排名前五的国家依次为韩国（39.9%）、美国（13.26%）、印度（4.2%）、中国（3.4%）及俄罗斯（3.2%）；2016年12月单篇文献月均页面访问量为1.0次。Google及Google Scholar是ScienceCentral极具影响力的引荐来源站点：除直接访问ScienceCentral的渠道外，排名前十的访问入口中有七个均来自不同国家的Google或Google Scholar相关站点。尽管访客总数与页面访问量持续增长，但单篇文献月均页面访问量并未出现提升。