January 2026 RED Readership Snapshot

In January, USD RED had 44811 full-text downloads and 7 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 9067. University of South Dakota scholarship was read by 1551 institutions across 170 countries. 

The most popular papers were: 
Indexing the South Dakota Constitutional Conventions: A 21st Century Solution to a 125 Year Old Problem (1286 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/sdlrev/vol53/iss2/15
The Parentification of Eldest Daughters (796 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis/244
Nature, Nurture, and Serial Murder: A Biocriminological Analysis of Jeffrey Dahmer and Aileen Wuornos (489 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis/403


The most popular publications were: 
South Dakota Law Review (19039 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/sdlrev
Honors Thesis (10739 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/honors-thesis
Dissertations and Theses (8098 downloads)
https://red.library.usd.edu/diss-thesis