Research Activity

AURA - Aberdeen University Research Archive

Between January and April 2023 AURA recieved 98,221 unique requests for data in our open access repository

The most popoular downloads from AURA between January and April 2023 were:

• Shotgun metagenomics, from sampling to analysis by Quince, Christopher; Walker, Alan W; Simpson, Jared T.; Loman, Nicholas J; Segata, Nicola, published in 2018
• The impact of electronic monitoring on fleet wide discarding of small cod in Scottish demersal fisheries by Holah, Helen; Marshall, C. Tara; Needle, Coby; Fryer, Rob, published in 2022
• Clinical decisions and time since rest break : An analysis of decision fatigue in nurses by Allan, Julia L.; Johnston, Derek W.; Powell, Daniel J. H.; Farquharson, Barbara; Jones, Martyn C.; Leckie, George; Johnston, Marie, published in 2019
• Expert consensus document : The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probiotic by Hill, Colin; Guarner, Francisco; Reid, Gregor; Gibson, Glenn R; Merenstein, Daniel J; Pot, Bruno; Morelli, Lorenzo; Canani, Roberto Berni; Flint, Harry J; Salminen, Seppo; Calder, Philip C; Sanders, Mary Ellen, published in 2014
• Quick, simple measures of family relationships for use in clinical practice and research : A systematic review by Wilson, Philip; Pritchett , Rachel; Kemp, Jeremy; Minnis, Helen; Bryce, Graham; Gillberg, Christopher, published in 2011
• Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods by Xu, Xiaoming; Sharma, Prateek;  Shu, Shijie, Lin, Tzu-Shun; Ciais, Philippe, Tubiello, Francesco N.; Smith, Pete; Campbell, Nelson; Jain, Atul K., published in 2021

The Conversation

In April 2023 our most read authors were Tom Baxter, Tomas Bokedal, M. Azizul Islam, Alex Johnstone, and Theophilus Acheampong, whose articles had a combined total of 18,839 reads

Currently the most popular articles in the Conversation are:

• What was the first Bible like? By Tomas Bokedal — August 30, 2018
• Hydrogen cars won't overtake electric vehicles because they're hampered by the laws of science By Tom Baxter — June 3, 2020
• Rana Plaza: ten years after the Bangladesh factory collapse, we are no closer to fixing modern slavery, By Muhammad Azizul Islam — April 21, 2023
• Le chien descend-il vraiment du loup ? By Elodie-Laure Jimenez — January 23, 2023
• How do children develop a sense of self? By Josephine Ross, Douglas Martin, and Sheila Cunningham — October 17, 2016