The Release 5 Reports are dismissing the traditional views and downloads metrics, and introducing new metrics, the Investigations and Requests:
- An Investigation is tracked when a user performs any action in relation to a content item or title: View Abstract; View Article Preview; View HTML Full Text, View PDF; Download PDF.
- A Request is specifically related to viewing or downloading the full content item: View HTML Full Text, View PDF; Download PDF.
The following Metric Types are now available:
- Total Item Investigations: Counts total number of times information related to an article viewed (including all article full‐content views).
- Unique Item Investigations: Counts unique article investigations and requests in a user‐session.
- Total Item Requests: Counts all article full‐content views across all formats like HTML and PDF (This is equivalent to the Release 4 reports).
- Unique Item Requests: Counts unique article full‐content views in a given session, regardless of format. If a user views an article PDF and HTML in the same session, this would only count as 1.