City Research Online – facts and figures

City Research Online (CRO) is the digital archive of research outputs produced by staff and researchers here at the Clerkenwell campus of City St. George’s, University of London. For International Open Access Week we’ve created an infographic with some key figures on CRO activity. 

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1,966 publications added to CRO in the last year 

24,278 publications in total archived in CRO 

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2022 – 910k downloads 

2023 – 878k downloads 

2024 – 992k downloads 

Breakdown of downloads in 2024 

Publication Types

67% articles, 13% books/chapters, 12% theses, 8% other publications e.g. reports, blog posts, working papers 

Top 5 countries downloading publications from CRO in order

  1. UK 
  1. US 
  1. China 
  1. Germany 
  1. India 

Top 3 downloaded articles

  1. Matos, C. (2012). Globalization and the mass media (https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/5542/) 15k downloads 
  1. Lang, T., Hawkes, C. et al (2019). Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems (https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/21633/) 5.9k downloads 
  1. Bawden, D. & Robinson, L. (2020). Information Overload: An Overview (https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/23544/) 5.2k downloads 

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