Class 7
Release 5Journal Reports
Journal Reports
This tutorial explains the new Journal Reports and how to use them
COUNTER Journal Reports
In Release 5 there are five reports that will provide information about journal usage:
• Title Master Report (TR)
• Journal Requests (Excluding OA_Gold) (TR_J1)
• Journal Access Denied (TR_J2)
• Journal Usage by Access Type (TR_J3)
• Journal Requests by YOP (Excluding OA_Gold) (TR_J4)
Title Master Report
A Title Master Report (TR) shows activity across all metrics for entire titles, which may be books or journals. The TR can be filtered according to user needs and has seven Standard Views in total. Four of the Standard Views apply to journals.
Standard View: TR_J1
Identifier Name Description Metric_Types
TR_J1 Journal
Requests
(Excluding
OA_ Gold)
Shows full-text activity
for all content that is not
Gold Open Access
Total_Item_Requests
Unique_Item_Requests
Standard View: TR_J2
Identifier Name Description Metric_Types
TR_J2 Journal
Access
Denied
Shows where users
were denied access to
journals because their
institution did not have a
license for the content,
or simultaneous use
(concurrency) licenses
were exceeded
Limit_Exceeded
No_License
Standard View: TR_J3
Identifier Name Description Metric_Types
TR_J3 Journal
Usage by
Access Type
Shows all applicable
metric types broken
down by Access_Type
Total_Item_Investigations
Total_Item_Requests
Unique_Item_Investigations
Unique_Item_Requests
Standard View: TR_J4
Identifier Name Description Metric_Types
TR_J4 Journal
Requests by
YOP
(Excluding
OA_Gold)
Shows the full-text
usage of non-Gold Open
Access content by year
of publication (YOP)
Total_Item_Requests
Unique_Item_Requests
Key differences between Release 5 and Release 4 when looking at journal usage
Please note, in order to be legible on these slides, the reports are truncated with some of the columns hidden.
Release 5: TR_J1
Title Publisher Metric_Type
Reporting_
Period_Total Aug-2018 Sep-2018 Oct-2018
Academic Pediatrics Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 1247 257 209 517
Academic Pediatrics Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 795 153 136 356
Academic Radiology Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 704 210 164 159
Academic Radiology Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 452 129 110 106
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 3 1 0 0
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 3 1 0 0
Journal Publisher
Reporting Period
Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Aug-2018 Sep-2018Oct-2019
Total for all Journals 821662 483772 337880 193827 191300 231750
Academic Pediatrics Elsevier 1220 763 457 257 209 523
Academic Radiology Elsevier 727 448 279 219 172 163
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier 3 0 3 1 0 0
Release 4: JR1
1.Limited to
Controlled
usage only.
2. Two
metrics per
journal.
3. No HTML
or PDF
metrics.
4. Journal
with zero
usage
excluded.
5. No total
for all
journals line.
1
4
3
5
2
R5:
TR_J1
Title Publisher Metric_Type
Reporting_
Period_Total Aug-2018 Sep-2018 Oct-2018
Academic Pediatrics Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 1247 257 209 517
Academic Pediatrics Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 795 153 136 356
Academic Radiology Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 704 210 164 159
Academic Radiology Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 452 129 110 106
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 3 1 0 0
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 3 1 0 0
Journal Publisher
Reporting Period
Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Aug-2018 Sep-2018 Oct-2018
Total for all Journals 821662 483772 337880 193827 191300 231750
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 1220 763 457 257 209 523
Academic Radiology Elsevier 727 448 279 219 172 163
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier 3 0 3 1 0 0
R4: JR1
Release 5
TR_J1 report
shows lower
usage
counts due
to the
exclusion of
Gold OA
usage.
TR_J1
Usage = JR1
Usage – JR1
GOA.
Journal Publisher
Reporting Period
Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Aug-2018 Sep-2018 Oct-2018
Total for all Journals 84292 56394 27898 20519 18673 24427
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 6 4 2 257 209 523
Academic Radiology Elsevier 23 18 5 219 172 163
R4:
JR1GOA
R5:
TR_J1
Title Publisher Metric_Type
Reporting_
Period_Total Aug-2018 Sep-2018 Oct-2018
Academic Pediatrics Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 1247 257 209 517
Academic Pediatrics Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 795 153 136 356
Academic Radiology Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 704 210 164 159
Academic Radiology Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 452 129 110 106
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier Total_Item_Requests 3 1 0 0
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier Unique_Item_Requests 3 1 0 0
Journal Publisher
Reporting Period
Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Aug-2018 Sep-2018 Oct-2018
Total for all Journals 821662 483772 337880 193827 191300 231750
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 1220 763 457 257 209 523
Academic Radiology Elsevier 727 448 279 219 172 163
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier 3 0 3 1 0 0
R4: JR1
Release 5
TR_J1 report
shows lower
usage
counts due
to the
exclusion of
Gold OA
usage.
TR_J1
Usage = JR1
Usage – JR1
GOA.
Journal Publisher
Reporting Period
Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Aug-2018 Sep-2018 Oct-2018
Total for all Journals 84292 56394 27898 20519 18673 24427
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 6 4 2 257 209 523
Academic Radiology Elsevier 23 18 5 219 172 163
R4:
JR1GOA
Title Publisher Metric_Type
Reporting_
Period_Total Jan-2019
Photochemical & Photobiology Royal Society Total_Item_Requests 255 255
Photochemical & Photobiology Royal Society Unique_Item_Requests 215 215
Journal Publisher
Reporting
Period Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Jan-2019
Total for all Journals 2986 1233 1753 2986
Photochemical & Photobiology Royal Society 324 147 177 324
Physical Chemistry Chemical Royal Society 304 200 104 304
Journal Publisher
Reporting
Period Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Jan-2019
Total for all Journals 767 456 311 767
Photochemical & Photobiology Royal Society 69 47 22 69
Physical Chemistry Chemical Royal Society 10 8 2 10
R5:
TR_J1
R4: JR1
Total Item
Requests vs
Reporting
period total
excluding
OA_Gold.
Request
PDF +
HTML
R4:
JR1GOA
Unique vs Total / PDF vs HTML
Release 5 Release 4
Total_Item_
Requests
Unique_
_Item_
Requests
Ratio
Unique vs.
Total
HTML usage
(excluding GOA)
PDF usage
(excluding GOA)
Example 1 704 452 0,64 430 274
Example 2 255 215 0,84 100 156
Cost per Use CalculationsCost per Use for Journal with 1.000
EUR/GBP/USD Subscription Fee
1.42
1.42
2.21
3.65
3.92
3.92
4.65
6.45
0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00
Release 5 TR_J1 Total_Item_Requests: 704
Release 4 JR1 Reporting Period Total - JR1GOA ReportingPeriod Total: 704
Release 5 TR_J1 Unique_Item_Requests: 452
Release 4 JR1 Reporting Period PDF - JR1GOA ReportingPeriod PDF: 274
Release 5 TR_J1 Total_Item_Requests: 255
Release 4 JR1 Reporting Period Total - JR1GOA ReportingPeriod Total: 255
Release 5 TR_J1 Unique_Item_Requests: 215
Release 4 JR1 Reporting Period PDF - JR1GOA ReportingPeriod PDF: 155
Journal Publisher
Reporting Period
Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Aug-2018Sep-2018 Oct-2018
Total for all Journals 821662 483772 337880 193827 191300 231750
AASRI Procedia Elsevier 7 0 7 3 3 0
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 1220 763 457 257 209 523
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier 3 0 3 1 0 0
R5:
TR_J3
Title Publisher
Access_
Type Metric_Type
Reporting_
Period_Total Aug-2018 Sep-2018
AASRI Procedia Elsevier OA_Gold Total_Item_Investigations 8 4 3
AASRI Procedia Elsevier OA_Gold Total_Item_Requests 7 3 3
AASRI Procedia Elsevier OA_Gold Unique_Item_Investigations 6 2 3
AASRI Procedia Elsevier OA_Gold Unique_Item_Requests 6 2 3
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier Controlled Total_Item_Investigations 1224 267 229
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier Controlled Total_Item_Requests 1214 257 209
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier Controlled Unique_Item_Investigations 795 152 135
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier Controlled Unique_Item_Requests 795 153 136
R4: JR1
1. Shows
usage by
Access Type.
2. Shows all
Investigations
and Requests
metrics.
Journal Publisher
Reporting Period
Total
Reporting
Period
HTML
Reporting
Period
PDF Aug-2018Sep-2018Oct-2018
Total for all Journals 84292 56394 27898 20519 18673 24427
AASRI Procedia Elsevier 7 0 7 3 3 0
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 6 4 2 0 0 6
R4:
JR1GOA
1
2
Journal Publisher
Articles in
Press YOP 2019 YOP 2018 YOP 2017
Total for all Journals 17967 8944 212703 97629
AASRI Procedia Elsevier 0 0 7 03
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 80 0 279 219
ACC Current Journal Review Elsevier 105 11 184 111
Accident Analysis & Prevention Elsevier 6 7 113 31
R5:
TR_J4
Title Publisher YOP Metric_Type
Reporting_
Period_Total Aug-2018 Sep-2018
AASRI Procedia Elsevier 0001Total_Item_Requests 2 2 1
AASRI Procedia Elsevier 0001Unique_Item_Requests 1 1 3
AASRI Procedia Elsevier 2009Total_Item_Requests 37 6 3
AASRI Procedia Elsevier 2009Unique_Item_Requests 22 3 1
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 2010Total_Item_Requests 14 3 7
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 2010Unique_Item_Requests 11 3 9
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 2011Total_Item_Requests 17 2 8
Academic Paediatrics Elsevier 2011Unique_Item_Requests 12 2 5
R4: JR5
1. Limited to
Controlled
Usage only.
2. Each year
has a
separate
row.
3. Two
metrics for
each journal.
4. No year
grouping for
older years.
5. Usage is
shown per
month.
1
2
3
5
4
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