Summing up the work year 2025

I have just summed up my work year in 2025 based on my log of working hours. 2025 was my second shortest work year in living memory (with my work log going back to 2009), with an average work week of 46,2 hours all weeks in the year included. This amounts to 2409 work hours, which compares to 143% of an ordinary work year. 

This year I also summed up my work/life balance, focused on sleeplessness, karate training and meditation.

Overall, the work year was characterized by making room for finishing the manuscript for my book originally titled Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement and now titled Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. I so did, in early August 2025. In my work log, this is reflected in the fact that book projects had the highest share of total work on record, and ended up as the largest category of work for the first time. Moreover, the share of my work time I spent on research plus book projects was the highest ever. Book projects was also the category whose share of all work hours increased the most from 2024. 

See also:

Summing up the work year 2022

2024: Shortest work year in living memory, at "only" 138% of normal work year

Academic readings 2025; most read authors

Over the last year I have logged academic readings amounting to 5.357,5 pages. This is somewhat less than in 2024, but somewhat more than what I read in 2023. Altogether I logged texts written by 350 different authors. On the 40 most read authors, 27 were duty-related (related to teaching, supervision, committee work etc (including 12 of the 20 most read authors). Among the most read authors were Martin Bech Holthe, Krystof Kasprzak and Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Google Scholar: 1506 citations by year-end; 148 citations in 2025; i10-index now 46

At year-end, according to my Google Scholar profile my research has attracted a total of 1.506 citations (+22 since December 1st). This includes 148 citations in 2025 (+17 since December 1st). As of now 2025 stands as my fifth best year in terms of number of citations, behind 2024 (226), 2022 (197), 2023 (186) and 2021 (154).

My h-index remains 21, while my i10-index is now 46 (+2 since December 1st). This implies that 46 of my scientific texts now have at least 10 citations each. The latest additions to the 10+ club appears to be "Agency in biosemiotics and enactivism" (10 citations) and "The evolutionary origin(s) of the Umwelt" (11 citations).

My most cited texts in 2025 as of now are:

1. Semiotic agency* 27

2. The ethics of laying hen genetics* 9

3. Umwelt transitions: Uexküll and environmental change 7

4. Wasted GDP in the USA 6

5. Current human ecology in the Amazon and beyond: A multi-scale ecosemiotic approach 5

5. Phenomenology and biosemiotics* 5

5. Recreation in the outdoors—exploring the friluftsliv experience of adolescents at residential care* 5

* co-authored

At the last year-end, in 2024, Google Scholar had me registered with a total of 1.251 citations. Since then my total citation count has increased by 255, my h-index has increased from 20 to 21, and my i10-index from 38 to 46 (i.e., by 8). Moreover, the number of items listed on my profile has increased from 136 to 175 (+39); this includes a few texts that are academic but not scientific.

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1500+ citations (December 22nd)

#54,5

Today I have had an article writing day with some 500 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever, which we are finishing and submitting today. This brings the final accumulated number of writing days this Autumn (starting July 1st) up to #54,5, with a total of 22,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing, and 32 writing days devoted to book writing.

December totals: 6.152 words written

Autumn totals: 42.010 words written

Year totals: 98.777 words written (the most on record)

#53,5

Today I have had an article writing day with some 550 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This brings the accumulated number of writing days this Autumn (starting July 1st) up to #53,5, with a total of 21,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.

Google Scholar: 1500+ citations

According to Google Scholar (cf. my profile) my research has to date attracted 1.501 citations. This means that I have now passed 1.500 citations. 

As for my Google Scholar history, on Google´s count I passed 1.000 citations in December 2023, 1.100 citations in April 2024, 1.200 citations in September 2024, 1.300 citations in January 2025, and 1.400 citations in June 2025. For a detailed history further back (100-1000 citations, achieved 2016-2023), see my 2023 blog post "Google Scholar: 1000 citations; updated Google Scholar history".

#52,5

Today I have had an article writing day with some 400 words added to the environmental semiotics chapter I am co-writing with Jonathan Beever. This brings the accumulated number of writing days this Autumn (starting July 1st) up to #52,5, with a total of 20,5 of the writing days devoted to article writing to date.