Figure 1
Relationship between number of theses in LSETO and downloads each month
Figure 2
Largest sources of traffic to LSE Theses Online
Figure 3
Top ten downloaded theses in LSE Theses Online
Figure 4
Sample of theses with at least ten citations according to Google Scholar (GS). The cross-hatched bars show subsequent publications which have a similar title to the thesis. * denotes download statistics are from EThOS as the full text is not in LSETO. NB: The Dolan thesis has a related book publication, but the records are not merged in GS as the titles are substantially different
Table 1
Top ten downloaded theses from the ProQuest digitization project
| Author | Google Scholar citations | Downloads | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Konsolas, Ioannis (1999) The competitive advantage of nations: The case of Greece. | 0 | 1705 | |
| Yaffe, Helen (2007), Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara: Socialist political economy and economic management in Cuba, 1959–1965. | 1 | 927 | |
| Ahuja, Monika Sangeeta (1996), Public interest litigation in India: A socio-legal study. | 1 | 900 | |
| Holt, Andrew Derek (2005), The role of management accounting within the development of environmental management systems. | 1 | 895 | |
| Mohamed, Mohamed Sameh Ahmed (1997), The role of the International Court of Justice as the principal judicial organ of the United Nations. | 49 | 686 | Book 2003 |
| Baxell, Richard (2002), The British Battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. | 1 | 672 | |
| Michelutti, Lucia (2002), Sons of Krishna: The politics of Yadav community formation in a north Indian town. | 4 | 520 | |
| Joao da Costa Cabral Andresen Guimaraes, Fernando (1992), The origins of the Angolan civil war. International politics and domestic political conflict 1961–1976. | 106 | 514 | Book 1998 |
| Stubb, Alexander (1999), Flexible integration and the Amsterdam Treaty: negotiating differentiation in the 1996–97 IGC. | 12 | 491 | |
| Fuller, Harcourt (2010), Building a nation: Symbolic nationalism during the Kwame Nkrumah era in the Gold Coast/Ghana. | 1 | 483 |
Figure 5
Spikes in traffic to LSETO
Figure 6
Downloads per item for LSE and University of Surrey