Readership by the whole world

Downloads increased strongly in 2022, with more than 5.5m journal article downloads and 1.1m book downloads.

Journal articles and books from IWA Publishing are now read everywhere around the world. This readership growth is coming from a wide range of countries. The list of Top 10 downloading countries for journal articles in 2022, for instance, includes major research nations such as the USA, China, India, the UK and Germany, but also emerging research producers such as Malaysia, the Philippines and Ethiopia (see Figure 2 below).

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It is particularly pleasing to see that the Top 20 downloading countries cover all continents, and as many countries from Asia as from Europe and North America combined. Figure 3 below shows the full picture.