What is a high / low number for article usage?
This is highly dependent on the age of the article and its subject area. For example, an article on molecular genetics (which is a large and fast-moving field) is likely to have higher usage than an article in a sub-area of biophysics (which may be of interest to a smaller number of researchers). In addition, although the majority of usage happens in the first few months of an article’s life, usage does continue to build over time; therefore, older articles are likely to show higher usage than younger articles. The study of usage data for individual articles is in its infancy (because very little information has been made public until now), so we are providing summary tables for each journal to allow users to see where an article sits compared to certain average measures. We also provide the entire dataset as a download for anyone who wishes to do a more rigorous analysis. You should interpret usage data with caution and we suggest that you simply regard it as an indicator of usage lev
