Peer-review for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications

Sometime earlier this year I have done a peer-review for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" reaches 12.000 accesses

My journal article "Wasted GDP in the USA", published October 2023, has now reached 12.000 accesses, according to the publisher´s article website. It remains my second-most read article after "The ethics of laying hen genetics" (2019) which has had 14.000 accesses.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" reached 10.000 Article accesses

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA", published last October, has now reached 10.000 Article accesses. This is the quickest any of my articles have reached that many reads.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" trending again; shared 2-300 more times on Twitter; Altmetric score now 995

 My article "Wasted GDP in the USA", published in October last year, is trending on Altmetric again, according to the homepage of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, where it was published. The article now has an Altmetric score of 995 (+162 since November 17th and also since quite recently), and Accesses (i.e., reads) is up to 7.864 (+2.720 since November 25th and up more than 1.000 over the last week or so). 

The article has now been mentioned in 1.826 tweets by 1.590 X users, 2 Redditers, 11 on Mendeley, and 3 news outlets (cf. Online attention details). 2 new news outlets are now listed, Mongabay and (reused in) South Africa Today. "Wasted GDP in the USA" is referenced in a news story and podcast that was first published on Mongabay January 30th.

On X, still known as Twitter, my article has been shared about 2-300 times over the last couple of days. Many of these have reposted a tweet by Kasper B.R.Bjørkskov posted this Monday, which has been viewed more than 23.000 times, reposted 268 times and has 600 likes. Among others, it was reposted by climate scientist Kevin Anderson, who has some 80.000 followers.

The tweeters that have shared the article include 75 scientists and 26 science communicators. The article has been shared the most in Spain, the USA, Colombia and the United Kingdom.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" included in collection "Towards a wellbeing economy"

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" appears to have been included in the Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Collection "Towards a wellbeing economy", which has submission deadline December 31st and is edited by Milena Büchs, Theocharis Kromydas, Hiroaki Matsuura, Prajal Pradhan & Claudimar Pereira da Veiga. For now, 8 articles are included in the collection.

My 10 most accessed articles with Springer Nature; ca. 44.000 accesses combined

These are my most accessed articles published by Springer Nature according to info from their editorial system Snapp:

1. The Ethics of Laying Hen Genetics Authors (Mia Fernyhough et al., Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2019) 12.924

2. Umwelt Transitions: Uexküll and Environmental Change (Biosemiotics, 2009) 5.155

3. Wasted GDP in the USA (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023) 5.144

4. Phenomenology and Biosemiotics (Morten Tønnessen, Timo Maran & Alexei Sharov, Biosemiotics, 2018) 4.648

5. Jesper Hoffmeyer’s Biosemiotic Legacy (Morten Tønnessen, Alexei Sharov & Timo Maran, Biosemiotics, 2019) 3.279

6. Current Human Ecology in the Amazon and beyond: a Multi-Scale Ecosemiotic Approach (Biosemiotics, 2020) 3.041

7. Towards Synthesis of Biology and Semiotics (Alexei Sharov, Timo Maran & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2015) 2.672

8. Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2020 (Claudio Julio Rodríguez Higuera & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2021) 2.644

9. Comprehending the Semiosis of Evolution (Alexei Sharov, Timo Maran & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2016) 2.546

10. Making the Umwelt Bubble of the Modern Synthesis Burst (Biosemiotics, 2021) 2.131

Combined these 10 articles have been accessed 44.184 times to date. Of these, 26.116 accesses concerns articles published in Biosemiotics.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" close to 5000 reads

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" now has 4.910 Article accesses. This is up 1.211 since Monday morning and up 1.892 since last Friday. Nice development.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" mentioned in Counterpunch news story

My article Wasted GDP in the USA, published recently in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, is mentioned today in an article by the US online news outlet Counterpunch, in the article "Roaming Charges: Politics of the Lesser Exterminators". Excerpts below.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" reaching 3000 Article accesses; shared 1500+ times on Twitter; Online attention score as 1 in 1000 articles

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has now been shared 1544 times on Twitter, resulting in an Online attention score of 833, according to Altmetrics´ article metrics. The number of article accesses is now 3018 (+482 since Wednesday). In terms of Online attention, the article is ranked 411th of the 296,985 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals, and it is ranked 1st of the 191 tracked articles of a similar age in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.

Their more detailed article metrics says that the article now ranks #21.096 of all articles tracked by Altmetric altogether, which is about 24,8 million articles. This means it is among the 1 in 1000 articles with the most Online attention. It ranks as #4 of 1.605 articles from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and as #411 of 296.985 articles of a similar age generally. The article has been mentioned in 1544 tweets by 1366 Twitter/X users, with 3,3 million followers in total.

Altmetric also lists mention of my article by one news outlet, namely Counterpunch. It has also been extensively described in a Spanish newspaper article in La Politica Online.

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"Wasted GDP in the USA" shared 1200 times on Twitter, 800 reads last two days (November 15th)

"Wasted GDP in the USA" now read by a few hundred a day; 468 tweeters engaged; in top percentile in Online attention

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" now has 1.751 Accesses and an Altmetric score of 241. This is up 714 (accesses) and 84 (Altmetric score) in two days, since Saturday. According to the detailed article metrics provided by Altmetric, the article has been linked to by 468 tweeters (up 202 since Saturday). This places it within the top percentile in terms of Online attention both for articles of a similar age in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (where it is placed #1 of 177 articles), and all similar articles of a similar age (where it is placed #1.699 of 283.597 articles). Tweeters include 30 scientists and 9 science communicators, according to Altmetric.

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"Wasted GDP in the USA" widely shared on Twitter after Jason Hickel tweets; in 1st percentile regarding Online attention (November 11)

"Wasted GDP in the USA" widely shared on Twitter after Jason Hickel tweets; in 1st percentile regarding Online attention

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" is gaining some traction after Jason Hickel posted about the article on Thursday November 9th. His initial tweet has been retweeted 266 times, liked by 668, and viewed some 45.000 times.

According to the article metrics provided by the journal Humanities & Social Sciences Communications via Altmetric, the article now has 1.037 article accesses (vs. close to 400 a couple of days ago), and scores 157 on Online attention (Attention Score), with 268 tweeters engaged. This makes it ranked 3,301st of 278,350 tracked articles of similar age generally, and in the 1st percentile of 175 tracked articles of a similar age published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" now in RePEc - already in other services

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA", published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, is now also available via RePEc (Research Papers in Economics). It was already listed via LibKey, and available in full via UIS Brage, ResearchGate and Academia.edu (be aware that the latter service is a hassle).

"Wasted GDP in the USA" featured in ISQOLS monthly newsletter

Mention of my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" is featured in the latest monthly email newsletter of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies (ISQOLS), "Members Only ISQOLS October 2023 updates and info".

#19,5

Today I have had what ended up as a full writing day, with some 1.100 words added to Mars and the Earthlings. Also, my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" was published (see separate post), so I had some dissemination to do. This is the most productive writing day so far this Autumn in terms of number of words written. Number of writing days this Autumn is up to 19,5.

Article "Wasted GDP in the USA" published

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has today been published in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, in Open Access format.

Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2023. Wasted GDP in the USA. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications 10: 681. Published October 11th 2023. With Supplementary Information Appendix. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02210-y 

#18

Yesterday and today I have had half a writing day, proof-reading my forthcoming article "Wasted GDP in the USA", which will soon appear in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" accepted for publication in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

I have been notified that my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has now been accepted for publication in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. It will appear online in a few weeks.

#17 - "Wasted GDP in the USA" accepted in principle

Yesterday and today I have had half a writing day, #17 this Autumn, with some feedback given on others´ text constributions to Mars and the Earthlings, and final editing of my forthcoming article "Wasted GDP in the USA", which has now been accepted in principle for publication in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.

#13,5

Today I have had a writing day, #13,5 this Autumn, with some 600 words added to the revised version of my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", which I have now resubmitted to Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. I also did some research for my book manuscript Captured.

#5

Today I have had a writing day, the 5th this Autumn, with some 400 words added to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA".