30.000 reads on ResearchGate

 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.

Followers, reads etc. in academic social media - 2000+ followers/connections; 60.000+ reads all-time including 25.000+ last 3 years

I currently have the following number of followers in Academic social media (I am most active on ResearchGate, where my publications are added regularly, with 94 research items currently listed, and LinkedIn):

Academia.edu: 866 followers (vs. 335 in 2015, 391 in 2016, 519 in 2018 and 657 in 2021)

ResearchGate: 472 followers (vs. 114 in 2016, 250 in 2018 and 269 in 2019)

LinkedIn: 753 connections (vs. 360 in 2016 and 429 in 2018)

All-time reads is currently 26.455 on ResearchGate (vs. 2.297 in 2017, 4.747 in 2019 and 10.590 in 2021) and 33.681 on Academia.edu (vs. 6.503 in 2015, 14.374 in 2019 and 23.300 in 2021). I have 186 recommendations on ResearchGate (vs. 9 in 2019). My current "Research interest score" on ResearchGate is 668.7, and they list 718 citations (vs. ca. 1.200 on Google Scholar, which lists 135 research items).

So, I´ve added about 200 followers on ResearchGate over the last 5 years, and about 200 followers on Academia.edu over the last 3 years, as well as 300+ on LinkedIn over the last 6 years. Meanwhile, I´ve had about 16.000 reads on ResearchGate over the last 3 years (and about 22.000 reads over the last 5 years), while on Academia.edu I´ve had about 10.000 reads over the last 3 years (and about 19.000 reads over the last 5 years).

On LinkedIn, my posts have gained 16.554 impressions over the last 365 days (+1,262.5%).

300+ more tweets about my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" the last day

My paper "Wasted GDP in the USA" has according to Altmetric now been shared in 876 tweets by a total of 802 Twitter users, with a potential reach in terms of followers of 2,3 million. This results in an Online attention score of 566, which is +325 since yesterday. 334 more Twitter users have shared the article since yesterday.

This is my Twitter profile.

The 39 most read texts on my ResearchGate profile

86 of my research publications/items are currently listed on my ResearchGate profile. These are the most read (100+ reads):

1. Introduction: The semiotics of animal representations 4.000

2. A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students A hundred introductions to semiotics, for a million students: Survey of semiotics textbooks and primers in the world 3.658

3. The Ethics of Laying Hen Genetics 2.254

4. Animal Umwelten in a Changing World. Zoosemiotic Perspectives 921

5. Umwelt ethics 794

6. How Can the Study of the Humanities Inform the Study of Biosemiotics? 793

7. Call for papers: Umwelt Theory and Phenomenology - Special Issue of Biosemiotics 552 

7. Menneskedyret og dets plass i verden (unpublished) 552

9. Umwelt Transitions: Uexküll and Environmental Change 530

10. “Darwin und die englische Moral”: The Moral Consequences of Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory 524

11. A World of Signs - In Memory of John Deely (1942-2017) 459

12. Jesper Hoffmeyer’s Biosemiotic Legacy 453

13. Interview on biosemiotic ethics with Wendy Wheeler 446

14. The First Decade of Biosemiotics 320

15. Introducing Biosemiotic Ethics 280

16. Analyse av partiprogrammer for 2013-2017 utført for Dyreetikkonferansen 2013 261

17. Comprehending the Semiosis of Evolution 253

18. Towards Synthesis of Biology and Semiotics 246

19. Phenomenology and Biosemiotics 202

20. Visjon 2040: Fra overlagt rovdrift til Utopi Buane (unpublished) 201

21. Historicising the Cultural Semiotics of Wolf and Sheep 197

22. Kalevi Kull and the rewilding of biosemiotics: Introduction (by Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus, Timo Maran and Morten Tønnessen) 196

23. Uexküllian phenomenology 194

24. The statistician's guide to Utopia: The future of growth 188

25. Umwelt and Language 186

26. Introduction: The Relevance of Uexküll’s Umwelt Theory Today 183

27. Organisms Reshape Sign Relations 177

28. The ontogeny of the embryonic, foetal and infant human umwelt 170

29. Human development, inequality and social risks in Latin-America and the Nordic countries 159

30. The Biosemiotic Glossary Project: Umwelt 143

31. Semiotic Agency, Science beyond Mechanism 141

32. Anticipating the societal transformation required to solve the environmental crisis in the 21st century 132

33. The Evolutionary Origin(s) of the Umwelt 131

34. Semiogenesis* 116

35. The search image as link between sensation, perception and action 111

36. 1st CFP: Animals in the Anthropocene - human-animal relations in a changing semiosphere (Stavanger, Norway, 17-19 September 2015) 110

37. Justifying Moral Standing by Biosemiotic Particularism 105

38. Introduction to the Special Issue Semiotics of Perception Being in the World of the Living—Semiotic Perspectives 104

39. Abstraction, cruelty and other aspects of animal play (exemplified by the playfulness of Muki and Maluca) 100

* chapter in the book Semiotic Agency, Science beyond Mechanism

Of these 39 texts with 100+ reads on ResearchGate, 2 are call for papers, 2 texts are unpublished (written in Norwegian), the rest are scientific, published texts. 32 are related to biosemiotics, 3 to animal welfare, 2 to economics (#24, #29), of which 1 to human welfare (#29).

"Semiotics in Ethology and Zoology" and "The study of past Umwelten" now available via ResearchGate

I have made two more publications available via ResearchGate (stored privately, can be shared on request):

Semiotics in Ethology and Zoology

The study of past Umwelten

Semiotics of animal representations intro chapter reaches 4.000 reads

Our book chapter "Introduction: The semiotics of animal representations", authored by me and Kadri Tüür, from the book The semiotics of animal representations (Rodopi - now Brill, 2014) has reached 4.000 reads at ResearchGate.

ResearchGate stats: More than 20.000 reads to date

According to Researchgate (cf. my profile) my listed research there has to date attracted 21.730 reads and 523 citations, and resulted in a Research Interest Score of 493.0. As the graph below shows, the annual number of reads passed 1.000 in 2017, and 2.000 in 2018, and has amounted to around 4.000 reads per year for the last 3 years. 

ResearchGate score passes 20

My ResearchGate score has passed 20, now standing at 20.07 - cf. my profile.

Life-time stats for my Academia.edu and Researchgate profiles: 23k views / 11k reads

I have 657 followers and to date 23.300 views on my Academia.edu profile - but note that I have opted out of email notifications because they sent an exessive amount.

On Researchgate I have a total of 10.590 reads, and 357 followers.

Social media profiles updated

I have updated my profile intros on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Academia.edu, Researchgate and the University of Stavanger with current responsibilites and more recent profile photos.

See also: New role as Head of department commenced; no longer EiC of Biosemiotics

Orcid profile page updated with 13 more publications

I have added some publications to my Orcid profile, now counting 48 publications (+13). See my Orcid profile page.

My most viewed YouTube videos

1. Wolf play (67.003)

2. Wolf couple moving in synch (5.942)

3. Fighting over food (2.079)

4. Wolves wrestle (1.302)

5. Sozialiced wolves at Langedrag meet kindergarten kids (1.217)

6. Wolves coming to join us at Polar Zoo (932)

7. A wolf plotting to steal my gloves (786)

8. Luna is chased - the fun is over, time to go (666)

9. Ylva the wolf wants to play fight (545)

10. Filosofihistorien på 1-2-3 (516)

All found on the YouTube page of MrMortenToennessen.

6000 reads on ResearchGate; RG score

My texts on my profile on ResearchGate have altogether reached 6.000 reads.

My ResearchGate score is 17.46.

ResearchGate stats: Reads doubled since December 2017

My ResearchGate profile currently lists a total of:

123 registered citations (+34 since December 2017)

9 recommendations

4,747 reads (more than a doubling since December 2017)

My current ResearchGate score is 17.29 (it was 16.23 in December 2017), and I have 269 followers (+19 since August 2018).

Top 3%

According to Academia.edu, I am in the top 3% of researchers the last 30 days in terms of views (with 22 profile views, 92 document views and 86 unique visitors).

Google Scholar profile updated with areas of interest

I have added areas of interest to my Google Scholar profile (max 5): Biosemiotics, theoretical biology, philosophy of science, ethics, and economics. I furthermore added https://utopianrealism.blogspot.no/ as my homepage.

ResearchGate score and following

My current ResearchGate score is 16.71, cf. my profile. I have 250 followers.

Biosemiotics on Facebook and Twitter

The journal Biosemiotics is now officially on Twitter and Facebook:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Biosemiotics1

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Biosemiotics

The social media accounts are operated by Yogi Hendlin and myself.

LinkedIn

I currently have 429 connections associated with my LinkedIn profile. I don´t want too many of them, but it is always nice to connect with people with similar mindsets, or people with whom I have shared history.

ResearchGate stats

According to the metrics of ResearchGate (see my profile) I currently have 101 citations and 2,761 reads of my papers registered there. My ResearchGate score is currently 16.56.