Since there may not be another Cites & Insights for several months, I thought I’d do a quick wrapup of C&I readership for 2018–noting, as always, that counts are typically about 3% low (because all but the first five hours of the last day of each month are missing).
It hasn’t been a great year: only two issues so far have cleared the 1,000-download mark, and only one the 2,000-download. Oddly enough, the subject supplement to GOAJ3 was not one of them–and, in fact, has done very poorly. Month-to-month trends suggest that shutting down C&I may be happening on its own, little by little–but, including the oddity that every single issue gets some downloads each month (an oddity that makes me wonder whether some of those hits are crawlers that the statistics package fails to recognize as such), there were 150,223 downloads over the course of the year.
Here are the 2018 issues sorted by downloads:
| Issue | Count | Topic |
| civ18i2.pdf | 2,268 | Writing, Wikipedia |
| civ18i1.pdf | 1,716 | OA issues, audio prices |
| civ18i7.pdf | 427 | audio prices, small essays |
| civ18i6.pdf | 376 | Predator! |
| civ18i5.pdf | 260 | futurism, GOAJ commentary |
| civ18i4.pdf | 259 | GOAJ3 subject supplement |
| civ18i3.pdf | 201 | GOAJ3 ch, 1-7 |
| civ18i9.pdf | 137 | books and media |
| civ18i8.pdf | 131 | ethics |
Top issues by 2018 downloads
These issues had at least 1,600 downloads in 2018 (including counts for “on” versions):
| Issue | Count | Topic |
| civ17i1.pdf | 3,233 | gray OA 2012-2016 |
| civ18i2.pdf | 2,268 | |
| civ14i7.pdf | 2,239 | investigating the lists |
| civ14i4.pdf | 2,173 | the sad case of jeffrey beall |
| civ13i3.pdf | 1,985 | acad. Library circ/ |
| civ16i1.pdf | 1,971 | ppppread. Article counts |
| civ12i4.pdf | 1,930 | futurism, public library closures |
| civ12i3.pdf | 1,872 | public library closures |
| civ13i10.pdf | 1,842 | books and library ROI |
| civ12i11.pdf | 1,670 | Google book settlement |
| civ12i5.pdf | 1,638 | fair use |
Top issues, 2015-2018
These issues have had at least 7,000 downloads since 2015 (including counts for “on” versions but not individual articles):
| Issue | Count | Topic |
| civ14i4.pdf | 21,781 | the sad case of jeffrey beall |
| civ14i7.pdf | 12,564 | investigating the lists |
| civ10i8.pdf | 10,321 | books and publishing |
| civ6i10.pdf | 9,596 | liblogs |
| civ12i2.pdf | 9,153 | social networks, misc. |
| civ12i8.pdf | 8,350 | blogging |
| civ8i7.pdf | 7,398 | various |
| civ15i9.pdf | 7,068 | gold oa 2011-2014 |
| civ14i5.pdf | 7,036 | ethics and access: the “sting” |
