OpenAIRE Usage Counts Service

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The OpenAIRE Usage Counts Service gathers usage data and consolidated usage statistics reports respectively, from its distributed network of data providers (repositories, e-journals, CRIS) by utilizing open standards and protocols and exploiting reliable, consolidated and comparable usage metrics like counts of item downloads and metadata views conformant to COUNTER Code of Practice.

The Usage Counts Service, allows the sharing of statistics across the above distributed network and provides significant added value for different stakeholders. On the data-provider level, it can serve repository managers and hosting institutions as a tool to evaluate the success of the publication platform. On the individual item level, it can demonstrate popular publications to authors and readers. In addition to other traditional (e.g. citation counts) and alternative metrics (e.g. mentions, recommendations) it can inform funding authorities in research evaluation processes...

https://openaire.github.io/usage-statistics-guidelines/?idU=1

There is patch for multiple DSpace version; though some modification might be need for it to work with this fork.