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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hi John,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>By Author IDs, do you mean Web of Science ResearcherID?? Or another kind of schema??<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>All our Master’s & PhD thesis’ authors are graduate students, so in most cases, they haven’t written or published any other documents. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><br>Greg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> John Salter [mailto:J.Salter@leeds.ac.uk] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 27, 2015 11:26 AM<br><b>To:</b> 'eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk'<br><b>Subject:</b> [EP-tech] Re: 2 IRStats Questions<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Another thought:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Do ALL your authors have IDs?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Are the top authors the top authors that have a unique ID, whilst the top-paper-authors don’t have unique IDs?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>John<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk">mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alan.Stiles<br><b>Sent:</b> 22 May 2015 16:53<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [EP-tech] Re: 2 IRStats Questions<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Hi Greg,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>There is the possibility that your top authors have multiple items which have each only been downloaded a lower number of times, but the total of which may be greater than the number of downloads each of your top items has received.</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Hope that makes sense?</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'>Alan</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#1F497D'> </span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> Greg Whitney [<a href="mailto:greg.whitney@polymtl.ca">mailto:greg.whitney@polymtl.ca</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> 22 May 2015 16:43<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk">eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [EP-tech] 2 IRStats Questions</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>We installed IRStats on our EPrints 3.3.13 test server. The 5 Most Downloaded Items DO NOT correspond with the 5 Top Authors. See attached gif. The TOP 5 counts also vary greatly for both tables.<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is Friday, so maybe I am missing something obvious, but shouldn’t the most downloaded items and top authors be identical. Unless there is another definition for Top Authors??<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks! Have a good week-end!<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Greg Whitney<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Polytechnique Montréal Library<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>PS – Also, 16 834 downloads for our top PhD thesis seems to be a lot!! Given the rather precise subject of this document. Is there anyway of validating these crunched numbers??<span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal> <span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>-- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302). 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