Emerald celebrates winners of its annual high usage awards 2021

Emerald Publishing has announced the top 20 global academic institutions with the highest number of downloads of its eJournal content throughout 2020, as part of its annual high usage award.

The award, now in its 11^th year, celebrate the relationship between Emerald and the winning institutions whilst also highlighting the global reach of our research.

This year, the institutions in the top three positions are Egyptian Knowledge Bank Data Center, which has moved up from second spot to top this year with 571,136 downloads, followed by Universiti Teknologi MARA which had 530,967 downloads. In third place for the second year running, is Liberty University in Texas, USA with 294,408 downloads.

This year saw a total of five institutions from the United Kingdom, five from Australia, three from Indonesia and two from Malaysia. Institutions from Egypt, United States of America, Netherlands, Thailand and Lithuania are also featured.

Laura Ingle, Head of Marketing at Emerald, commented on the value of these awards, saying: "The High Usage Awards enable us to reward the loyalty of our customers and our relationships with institutions and academics from all over the world. We are delighted to see the global reach of our research and its high quality, all which wouldn’t be possible without the work undertaken by all our authors, editors and peer reviewers.

"As a signatory of DORA, Emerald is committed to establishing new pathways to impact, making research more accessible and helping communities make decisions that change their world for the better."

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Notes for Editors

The top 20 winning institutions with the highest usage of Emerald eJournal content in descending order are:

1. Egyptian Knowledge Bank Data Center, Egypt
2. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
3. Liberty University, USA
4. Universitas Trisakti, Indonesia
5. RMIT University, Australia
6. University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania
7. Griffith University, Australia
8. University of Liverpool, UK
9. Assumption University of Thailand, Thailand
10. Northumbria University, UK
11. Universiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
12. Queensland University of Technology, Australia
13. Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia
14. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
15. Tilburg University, Netherlands
16. Macquarie University, Australia
17. Monash University, Australia
18. University of Birmingham, UK
19. Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
20. University of Manchester, UK