Advanced journal analytics
Views, readers, sessions, downloads, academic referrals, countries, engagement, scroll depth, acquisition sources and period comparisons.
Journal intelligence for scholarly publishing
See how your journals are discovered, used and performing.
ICRP Lens combines first-party readership analytics, article intelligence, publication-health monitoring and publisher-wide reporting in one focused platform for scholarly journals.
✓ OJS-friendly
✓ First-party analytics
✓ Multi-journal publishing
Journal dashboardJournal of Intercultural Communication
Last 30 days⌄Views24.8k↑ 18.4%
Readers14.2k↑ 11.7%
Downloads6.9k↑ 9.6%
DOI health98%Healthy
Readership trendViews
Journal health
Metadata94%
PDF access99%
Uptime100%
Traffic quality91%
One tracker.Journal-wide analytics without replacing OJS.
One portfolio.Manage publishers, journals and article intelligence together.
One health view.DOI, PDF, metadata, uptime and performance monitoring.
Built for scholarly publishing
More than website traffic.
Lens understands journals, articles, DOI records, PDF galleys and publisher portfolios—not just anonymous page URLs.
Article intelligence
Understand which articles attract readers, convert to PDF downloads and receive academic discovery traffic.
ReadersDownloadsScholar
DOI health
Check DOI resolution, identify broken or unchecked records and schedule portfolio-wide monitoring.
Active98% healthy
PDF health
Audit article PDF view and download endpoints to find missing files, access failures and non-PDF responses.
PDF availableValid response
Metadata readiness
Audit citation metadata, OAI-PMH, sitemap, robots directives, canonical links and scholarly discovery signals.
94/100
Uptime monitoring
Monitor journal availability, HTTP health, response time and TLS certificate status on a schedule.
Online100.00% uptime
Bot & traffic quality
Separate humans, search crawlers, scholarly crawlers, AI bots and suspicious traffic patterns.
Publisher intelligence
One consistent view across your publishing portfolio.
Move from individual journal statistics to a publisher-level operating view of readership, article performance, citations, technical health, alerts and discoverability.
Portfolio analytics
Journal health
Citations
Alerts
Reports
OJS sync
Built for multi-journal publishers
Publisher → Journal → Article intelligence
Use the same analytics and health model at every level. Publisher roles inherit access across assigned journals while journal teams keep their own operational workspace.
- Compare journalsViews, visitors, downloads, countries and engagement.
- Monitor portfolio healthDOI, PDF, metadata, OAI-PMH, uptime and performance.
- Track scholarly attentionCrossref and OpenAlex citation signals across titles.
- Act from one placeAlerts, scheduled reports and publisher-level teams.
ICR
Last 30 days⌄
Publisher workspaceICR Publications Ltd.
Portfolio views128.4k↑ 12.8%
Readers71.6k↑ 8.4%
Downloads31.8k↑ 9.1%
Journals4All monitored
Journal portfolioHealth
JICC
Journal of Intercultural Communication42.7k views · 14.8k downloads
HealthyIJS
Innovation Journal of Social Sciences37.1k views · 8.9k downloads
HealthyIEF
Innovation Economics Frontiers28.5k views · 5.1k downloads
ReviewIMF
Innovation Management Frontiers20.1k views · 3.0k downloads
HealthyPortfolio healthLive
DOI resolution98.7%
PDF access99.1%
Metadata readiness94%
OAI-PMH100%
3 healthy 1 needs review
Continuous journal health
Find publication problems before your readers do.
Scheduled monitoring turns Lens into an operational health layer for your journal portfolio.
DOI resolver
Resolution status, final destination and issue rechecks.
PDF access
Viewer and download endpoints, validation and missing files.
Metadata
Scholarly metadata and technical discoverability readiness.
Uptime & TLS
Availability, response times and certificate monitoring.
Web performance
Real-user Core Web Vitals and slow-page identification.
Traffic quality
Detect suspicious bursts and classify automated traffic.
First-party by design
Own the analytics relationship.
Lens is designed to collect the journal metrics you need without turning your publishing site into an advertising analytics surface.
No advertising trackerLens exists for journal intelligence, not ad targeting.
Privacy-conscious visitor identityUse pseudonymous visitor identifiers rather than storing raw IPs in analytics events.
Self-hosted product assetsCore Lens UI assets and map libraries can be served from your own Lens installation.
Public transparency controlsPublish only the readership and health metrics you choose to expose.
Works withOJS
Works withWordPress
Works withCustom journal sites
One lightweightJavaScript tracker
OJS / website installationOne snippet
<script defer src="https://lens.icrp.org.uk/tracker.js" data-site="lens_pk_••••••••"></script> FAQ
Built to fit existing journal workflows.
Do we need an OJS plugin?
No. The lightweight Lens tracker can work independently. For publishers that want authoritative article metadata and automatic publication synchronisation, Lens also provides an optional native OJS connector.
Can one account manage several journals?
Yes. Journals can be organised under publisher or organisation records, with publisher-level roles and portfolio reporting.
Does Lens monitor more than traffic?
Yes. Current modules include journal and article analytics, DOI and PDF health, Crossref metadata audit, OAI-PMH health, citation and scholarly-attention monitoring, uptime, Core Web Vitals, bot intelligence, traffic quality, alerts and scheduled reports.
Can journals publish their statistics?
Yes. Each journal can expose an optional public transparency report and configurable country/visitor widget while keeping administrative data private.
ICRP Lens
Turn journal activity into actionable publishing intelligence.
Start with one journal, then scale to your full publishing portfolio.