Describe the problem you would like to solve
As a librarian providing support for several journals on a shared installation, I sometimes need to record information about our overall publishing output in a given period of time (usually annually). Currently I need to visit each journal individually to see its most recent publication date and record this information in a spreadsheet or list.
Describe the resolution you’d like
It would be great to be able to see / download a graph and / or table, similar to the individual journal stats available in the Editorial Activity settings, which would apply to the entire installation. This could show, for example, how many journals in the installation published a new issue or articles in a given time frame, and include the number of issues and articles published across the entire installation in a given time frame.
Who is asking for this feature?
Managers of shared installations who report on annual publishing stats for their unit.
I agree that this would be a fantastic feature for those of us in this situation. COUNTER 3 used to provide this, but we can get only individual journal stats since COUNTER 4 was implemented.
I am working on a plugin that would show public site level statistics.
What I have in mind is a page that would show numbers like how many journals we have, how many articles they have published, how many issues published, how many downloads of full texts in total, what is the most popular content, which are the most read journals etc.
My question is, what kind of data would you expect to see in a statistics page like this? My thinking is that I do not so much want to create a public tool for browsing the complete data but more a selected overview of some key numbers.
Any feedback is welcome, especially when it comes to the loading times of the page. It has a 24 hour cache, but the initial fetching of the data could prove to be a problem in larger installations.