Today I have had a book writing day, with some 700 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the 21st writing day I have had this Autumn.
This month I have logged 17.610 words written. This is a new record. The previous record (16.832 words) was set in May.
Moreover, 21 writing days in a month, all book writing days, is also a record. The previous record (17,5 writing days) was likewise set in May.
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According to my Google Scholar profile, my research has now attracted 1.419 citations (+12 since July 1st). This includes 78 citations so far in 2025 (+15 since July 1st). My h-index remains 21 while my i10-index is now 43 (+1).
My 43rd text to reach 10 citations is the article "Recreation in the outdoors—exploring the friluftsliv experience of adolescents at residential care" which I co-wrote with Joakim Jiri Haaland.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 600 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the 20th writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 900 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement, and ten tables designed. This is the nineteenth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 500 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement, and two figures designed. This is the eighteenth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today, on the last day of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS 2025), held in Luxembourg (organised by STATEC Research and ISQOLS) July 22-25th with the theme “Redefining Progress: Achieving Sustainable Well-being for All”, I presented the paper "What deep ecologist Arne Næss can teach us about the interdisciplinary nature of economics” in session 22A, “Special Session on Legitimate Public Policies: Promoting Well-being and Ecological Sustainability”, which was chaired by Joonas Uotinen. Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen were credited as co-authors. Some 20-25 people attended.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 600 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the seventeenth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 1.250 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the sixteenth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 600 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the fiftheenth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 1.000 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the fourteenth writing day I have had this Autumn.
My research items have reached 30.000 reads on ResearchGate. This is about 3.500 more than 9 months ago, and about 20.000 more than by 2021.
See my Researchgate profile here.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 1.200 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the thirteenth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 750 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the twelth writing day I have had this Autumn.
This morning I was interviewed live on Norwegian national TV and radio, in the NRK program Nyhetsmorgen, which is broadcasted on NRK1 (TV) and P1 (radio), in the news feature "Etikk rundt kloning av dyr" (Ethics about cloning of animals). The news feature related to a news story published last weekend about Kristin G. Andresen´s cloning of a horse. Marte Kaasa Arntsen was the program host.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 800 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the eleventh writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 800 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the tenth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 1.700 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the ninhth writing day I have had this Autumn - and the number of words written today appears to be the highest on record for this manuscript. More importantly, I am progressing with completing sections and chapters.
My paper «Ecological semiotics» has been scheduled for presentation on Monday, August 25th at 10.30-11.00 at the 25th Gathering in Biosemiotics, which is to be held at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands, August 25-29th.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 1.000 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the eighth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 700 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the seventh writing day I have had this Autumn.
The article "Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being" has now been published in International Journal of Intercultural Relations. This is my fifth scientific publication in 2025, and the second Live Better-article I am a co-author of (on the basis of data collection in Norway).
Full reference:
Mateusz Olechowski, Maciej R. Górski, Mohsen Joshanloo, M. Azhar Hussain, Arkadiusz Wasiel, Victoria Wai Lan Yeung, Michael Harris Bond, Brian W. Haas, Farida Guemaz, Mahmoud Boussena, Ángel Sánchez-Rodríguez, Nuha Iter, Olha Vlasenko, Vivian Miu-Chi Lun, Liman Man Wai Li, Nur Amali Aminnuddin, İdil Işık, Dieynaba Gabriel Ndiaye, Márta Fülöp, David Igbokwe, Mladen Adamovic, Ragna Benedikta Garðarsdóttir, Natalia Soboleva, Julien Teyssier, Fumiko Kano Glückstad, Joonha Park, Plamen Akaliyski, Grace Akello, Charity Akotia, Marwan Al-Zoubi, Isabelle Albert, Anna Almakaeva, Laura Andrade, Lily Appoh, Douglas Marlon Arévalo Mira, Rasmata Bakyono-Nabaloum, Arno Baltin, Pablo Eduardo Barrientos Marroquin, Diana Boer, Vlad Costin, Alejandra Domínguez Espinosa, Agustin Espinosa, Carla Sofia Esteves, Vladimer Gamsakhurdia, Alin Gavreliuc, Biljana Gjoneska, Rafail Hasanov, Eric Raymond Igou, Mostak Ahamed Imran, Naved Iqbal, Natalia Kascakova, Lucie Klůzová Kračmárová, Agata Kocimska-Bortnowska, Aleksandra Kosiarczyk, Olga Kostoula, Nicole Kronberger, Anna Kwiatkowska, Mary Anne Lauri, J. Hannah Lee, Magdalena Łużniak-Piecha, Alexander Malyonov, Arina Malyonova, Fridanna Maricchiolo, Linda Mohammed, Tamara Mohorić, Fatma Mokadem, Magdalena Mosanya, Oriana Mosca, Elke Murdock, Nur Fariza Mustaffa, Katarzyna Myślińska-Szarek, Martin Nader, Azar Nadi, Danielle Ochoa, Ayu Okvitawanli, Ewa Palikot, Patrick Denoux, Vassilis Pavlopoulos, Zoran Pavlović, Iva Poláčková Šolcová, Muhammad Rizwan, Ana Maria Rocha, Vladyslav Romashov, Espen Røysamb, Adil Samekin, Ruta Sargautyte, Beate Schwarz, Heyla Selim, Ursula Serdarevich, David Sirlopú, Rosita Sobhie, Boris Sokolov, Maria Stogianni, Stanislava Stoyanova, Moritz Streng, Chien-Ru Sun, Morten Tønnessen, Claudio Torres, Kiều Thị Thanh Trà, Vladimir Turjačanin, Yukiko Uchida, Yvette van Osch, Wijnand van Tilburg, Christin-Melanie Vauclair, Jorge Vergara-Morales, Vivian L. Vignoles, Cai Xing, Belkacem Yakhlef, Eric Kenson Yau, June Chun Yeung, John Zelenski, Kuba Krys (2025): Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 108: 102227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2025.102227
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 950 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement, and three figures added. This is the sixth writing day I have had this Autumn.
By now in 2025 I have logged in excess of 60.000 words written.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 600 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement, and a figure added. This is the fifth writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 950 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the fourth writing day I have had this Autumn. By now I have written in excess of 80.000 words on the manuscript (which is contracted to be approximately but not more than 80.000 words).
I have been appointed as co-supervisor of Federico Comollo, who is a PhD Candidate in Italy´s national PhD Programme in Sustainable Development and Climate Change, at IUSS Pavia / Luiss Guido Carli (Italy). His research project is entitled “The Ethics and Politics of Plant Conservation in the Anthropocene”, and his main supervisor is Gianfranco Pellegrino. Earlier this year I hosted Federico´s 2 month long exchange to the University of Stavanger.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 750 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the third writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 450 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the second writing day I have had this Autumn.
Today I have had a book writing day, with some 600 words written on my scientific monograph Captured: CCS and the fight for the soul of the environmental movement. This is the first writing day I´ve had this Autumn (the second half of the year).
Yesterday I took part in grading a fifth bachelor thesis in social work for this term.
See also: 4 bachelor theses in social work graded (June 17th)
According to Google Scholar (cf. my profile) my research has to date, halfway through the year, attracted 1.407 citations (+3 since June 13th). This includes 63 citations so far in 2025 (+3 since June 13th). My h-index remains 21 and my i10-index 42.
By 31st of December 2024, half a year ago, I had 1251 citations, meaning that 156 citations have been registered by Google Scholar since then. At that point my h-index was 20 and my i10-index 38, these have since increased by +1 and +4 respectively. I surpassed 1.300 citations in January and 1.400 citations in mid-June.
Over the last half year, the book Semiotic agency: Science beyond mechanism which I co-authored with Alexei Sharov, has reached 100 citations, as my second text to do so, and replaced my 2009 article "Umwelt transitions: Uexküll and environmental change" as my most cited text.
