The public launch of WheatVIVO was on 8th November 2021, with 110 users checking it out on this day to see what it was all about! WheatVIVO is an open access data portal that provides information about wheat researchers, and projects globally. It accesses information from: WheatVIVO signups, RCUK, ORCID, CORDIS, Florida, OpenAire and Concepts. Over 230 people have signed up to have their personal profile included.
Since the public launch, there have been over 3,700 users with an average engagement time of just over 1 minute. The graph above shows the usage of WheatVIVO since Google Analytics has been collecting data. Spikes in usage can generally be attributed to certain events, such as soft launch (Sept 2021), public launch (Nov 2021), and the celebration of WheatVIVO’s first anniversary (Nov 2022).
The average users per month has steadily increased since the launch. In 2022, the average monthly usage was 116 per month and in 2023, the average monthly usage is 183. The months in 2023 that had the highest usage were November with 249 users and December with 209. The categories most searched for are people, projects, publications and organisations.
New Feature!
The International Wheat Congress (IWC) Abstracts for 2019 and 2022 are now available on WheatVIVO. Conferences (wheatvivo.org) Click on the Conferences tab and then the relevant IWC. The ‘Publications’ tab contains the list of abstracts and from there you can open up the abstracts. Abstracts are sorted by category/session/theme.
We are continually making refinements and adding new features to improve WheatVIVO. If you have an idea, suggestion or any other feedback, please email us.