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We invite all Newswise participants (as well as non-participating institutions), to raise awareness of your upcoming medical and scientific meetings by contributing your listings to the Newswise Calendar of Medical Meetings or to the Newswise Calendar of Scientific Meetings. Both calendars are updated monthly, and constitute an extremely popular resource for both journalists and the general scientific community.
In this report we take a look at the traffic these calendars have generated over the past six months, and explore the high-profile that these calendars have achieved in the listings of three major internet search engines: Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
| Calendars: Monthly Hits |
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| 1 | Sep 2003 | 1,530 |
| 2 | Oct 2003 | 1,960 |
| 3 | Nov 2003 | 1,351 |
| 4 | Dec 2003 | 1,386 |
| 5 | Jan 2004 | 1,698 |
| 6 | Feb 2004 | 1,368 |
| | Average | 1,548 |
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| | Totals | 9,293 |
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Also worth noting is the high percentage of hits on the Newswise calendars that are being refered by the major internet search engines when a user searches for "medical meetings calendar", "scientific meetings calendar", "medical meetings" or "scientific meetings". Over 24% of all calendar hits came from one of these three major search engines: Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft:
| Calendars: Search Engine Referrals |
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Search Engine
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Search Terms
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Ranking of Newswise Calendar on 26-Feb-2004
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Out of this number of matches
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Percentage of all Newswise calendar hits referred by this search engine
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Google
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medical meetings calendar
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1st
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889,000
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13.22% |
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Google
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scientific meetings calendar
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1st
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430,000
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Google
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medical meetings
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6th
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3,160,000
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Google
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scientific meetings
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7th
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3,710,000
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Yahoo
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medical meetings calendar
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1st
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1,300,000
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4.51% |
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Yahoo
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scientific meetings calendar
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1st
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474,000
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Yahoo
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medical meetings
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8th
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5,600,000
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Yahoo
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scientific meetings
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10th
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2,900,000
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Microsoft
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medical meetings calendar
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1st
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233,920
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6.51% |
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Microsoft
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scientific meetings calendar
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1st
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100,814
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Microsoft
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medical meetings
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12th
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1,236,164
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Microsoft
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scientific meetings
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10th
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2,900,000
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We are also open to the possibility of creating other such resources. What do you think? Do you have other suggestions?
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This is the twenty-sixth edition of the monthly report in which you'll find:
Earlier results
A preliminary report on access counts is now provided for files you've contributed during the most recent month, in addition to a final report on your prior month's activity. This allows you to track both preliminary and longer-range access counts for your stories.
Enhanced context
Your reports are now provided within the greater context of this monthly Newswise report, which offers perspectives on your data not previously available, such as studies of how the media access and use Newswise and your stories. We also hope to utilize this "interactive" newsletter as a way of eliciting your suggestions and to acknowledge those who have contributed suggestions.
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February 2004 Newswise Report (preliminary)
(If your institution had contributed stories in February 2004, data on those stories would appear here. You will find overall site statistics below.)
Table 1
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Newswise February 2004 PRELIMINARY Report
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HITS ON ALL INSTITUTIONS' NEWS RELEASES
By LIBRARY and TYPE OF STORY
(based on data gathered through 22-Mar-2004)
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Number of Type Access Counts
FEBRUARY of ---------------------
News Releases Story TOTAL Avg Median
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MEDNEWS LIBRARY
204 Research or Feature 104612 513 307
1 Policy 211 211 211
12 Announcement 2429 202 189
SCINEWS LIBRARY
115 Research or Feature 42992 374 319
2 Policy 370 185 185
9 Announcement 1447 161 148
LIFENEWS LIBRARY
80 Research or Feature 31318 391 293
0 Policy -- -- --
10 Announcement 1866 187 181
5 Higher Ed Event 923 185 178
BIZNEWS LIBRARY
31 Research or Feature 8860 286 274
0 Policy -- -- --
8 Announcement 1485 186 184
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January 2004 Newswise Report (final)
(If your institution had contributed stories in January 2004, data on those stories would appear here. You will find overall site statistics below.)
Table 1
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Newswise January 2004 FINAL Report
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HITS ON ALL INSTITUTIONS' NEWS RELEASES
By LIBRARY and TYPE OF STORY
(based on data gathered through 22-Mar-2004)
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Number of Type Access Counts
JANUARY of ---------------------
News Releases Story TOTAL Avg Median
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MEDNEWS LIBRARY
137 Research or Feature 57379 419 372
4 Policy 1214 304 305
13 Announcement 2736 210 197
SCINEWS LIBRARY
115 Research or Feature 47231 411 347
0 Policy -- -- --
7 Announcement 1460 209 213
LIFENEWS LIBRARY
62 Research or Feature 29985 484 345
0 Policy -- -- --
5 Announcement 907 181 194
3 Higher Ed Event 593 198 198
BIZNEWS LIBRARY
31 Research or Feature 15552 502 322
0 Policy -- -- --
5 Announcement 862 172 171
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