Case Study: Cochrane boosts impact factor and discoverability with HighWire Press

Cochrane boosts Cochrane Library impact factor 16.8% in two years with HighWire Press

Cochrane, a global independent health evidence network, needed a flexible digital platform to meet the complex content requirements of its flagship Cochrane Library. The challenge was to improve content discoverability, support multiple content types and languages, and achieve key strategic goals like increasing its international user base. They partnered with vendor HighWire Press to develop a solution using its hosting and platform services.

HighWire Press implemented a redesigned platform featuring integrated search across all content types, powerful multilingual capabilities starting with a new Spanish portal, and improved user experience. The results included a 26% year-on-year increase in full-text accesses, over 2 million unique page views in Spanish, and a 16.8% rise in its impact factor over two years. HighWire's solution successfully made Cochrane's evidence more universally accessible and discoverable.

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