id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-17824 Wood-Doughty, Alex; Bergstrom, Ted; Steigerwald, Douglas G. Do Download Reports Reliably Measure Journal Usage? Trusting the Fox to Count Your Hens? 2019-07-11 .pdf application/xhtml+xml 9678 327 40 Conclusion This paper originated as an exploration of the relation between journal downloads and journal citations. In the long run, if download statistics are to be a credible and reliable tool for estimating usage, it seems that it would be advisable for libraries to develop a uniform interface for downloading articles from all publishers and to maintain their own records of journal downloads, which they would share as public information. cache/crl-17824.pdf txt/crl-17824.txt