Monday, June 1, 2009

Scifinder Scholar Statistics for the Past 7 weeks

In the middle of April I polled users of Scifinder Scholar to ascertain their preference for web or client version. The results indicated a slight preference for the client version. At that point in time only 17 of the 80 registered users voted. Now I have 148 users who registered for passwords of the web version. At that point I reallocated my 2 seats: 1 for the web and 1 for the client version. The usage statistics since that time indicated that 64.5% of the attempts were for the web version while 35.5% were for the client version. The turnaway rate for the web version was 25.6% while the rate for the client was much lower at 19.7%.

Go figure - they say that prerfer the client version, but more peopleuse the web.

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