Wednesday 30 December 2020

Google Scholar: 517 citations; 65 in 2020

According to Google Scholar (see my profile) my research has now attracted 517 citations (+5 since November 27th). 65 of these are from 2020 (+4 since November 27th), which means I right now have just as many citations in 2020 as I had in 2019. I had more in 2016 (93) and 2018 (72).

My i10-index remains 20 and my h-index 13.


Tuesday 22 December 2020

Complaint grading done

Today I have done complaint grading in 4 papers in MEE140 (Philosophy of science and research methods).

#39,5 - 2020 totals: 94 writing days; 84.739 words written

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 900 words written on the Preface of Semiotic agency: Science beyond mechanism, which I co-write with Alexei Sharov as second author. Final number of writing this autumn ends up at 39,5. This is more than the autumn of 2019, when I had 32 writing days. This Spring I had 54,5 writing days. In total in 2020 I thus had 94 writing days (a new record).

I have logged 39.578 words written this autumn, compared with ca. 27.000 words in the autumn of 2019 and 45.161 words this Spring. Year total for 2020: 84.739 words.

Monday 21 December 2020

#39

Today I have had an article writing day with some 1.400 words written on my Semiotic agency chapter "Human agency and ecology". December is by now the most productive month this autumn in terms of words written, with more than 10.000 words written this month. It is also the month with the highest number of writing days. Overall, the number of article writing days this autumn is up to 39.

Sunday 20 December 2020

#38

Today I have had half an article writing day with some 300 words written on my Semiotic agency chapter "Human agency and ecology".

Total number of writing days this autumn is up to 38.

Friday 18 December 2020

#37,5

Today I have had an article writing day mostly devoted to my Semiotic agency chapter "Human agency and ecology", with some 1.200 words written.

Total number of writing days this autumn is up to 37,5.

Thursday 17 December 2020

2 meetings, a supervision session and a work lunch

Today I have attended my last faculty leadership meeting in my capacity as Vice-Dean of research at University of Stavanger´s Faculty of social sciences, had a joint supervision session with co-supervisor, had a work lunch related to a ph.d. project on the notion of progress, and had a meeting in preparation of my forthcoming job as Head of department at Department of social studies.

Wednesday 16 December 2020

3 meetings

Today I have attended the faculty´s appointments committee meeting - for the last time, a meeting related to research administration, and a meeting related to my forthcoming role as head of department.

#36,5

Today I have had half an article writing day devoted to slightly revising my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners" and getting started somewhat on my Semiotic agency chapter "Human agency and ecology". Some 100 words deleted and 200 written.

Total number of article writing days is up to 36,5.

Vacant position as Associate professor of philosophy at Department of social studies, UIS

A 4 and a half year position as Associate professor in philosophy, stepping in for me while I am Head of department, is now vacant. Deadline January 27th.

Call in Norwegian

Call in English

Tuesday 15 December 2020

#36

Today, mostly this evening, I have had what turned out to be a full article writing day, with some 1.200 words written on my article "Karbonfangst i lys av klimarettferdighet" (Carbon capture and storage (CCS) in light of climate justice), which I have now finished and submitted.

Total number of article writing days is up to 36 so far this autumn.

3 meetings

Today I have attended my last faculty leadership group meeting as Vice-Dean of research, chaired my last meeting as head of the ph.d. committee, and attended a research administration meeting.

Monday 14 December 2020

#35

Today I have had an article writing day devoted to my Norwegian article on CCS and climate justice, with some 1.900 words written. This is the 3rd most productive day this autumn by that measure. Total number of writing days this autumn is up to 35.

Sunday 13 December 2020

#34

Today I have had an article writing day devoted to my Norwegian article on CCS and climate justice, with some 1.100 words written. Total number of writing days so far this autumn is up to 34.

Friday 11 December 2020

#33

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 300 words written on an article in Norwegian on CCS and climate justice.

A meeting, and then some

Yesterday I attended the weekly faculty leadership group meeting.

I also attended a couple of meetings with colleagues of a more informal character.

Wednesday 9 December 2020

#32,5

Today I have had an article writing day and finished my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners", with some 1.100 words written today.

Tuesday 8 December 2020

4 meetings and flower and photo event

Today I have attended the faculty leadership meeting, received flowers as a thank you for serving as chair of the board of the Centre for gender studies for the last two years, presented and discussed the proposed faculty strategy at a digital staff meeting at Norwegian School of Hotel Management, participated in a research administration meeting and presented and discussed the faculty´s research report for 2019 at the meeting of the board of the Faculty of social sciences.

Monday 7 December 2020

#31,5

Today I have had half an article day, with some 700 words written on my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners". Total number of writing days this autumn is up to 31,5.

Sunday 6 December 2020

#31

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 200 words written on my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners".

Friday 4 December 2020

Recordings of my and other presentations from 20th gathering in biosemiotics

Recordings from the 20th Gathering in biosemiotics are available on YouTube here. My presentation "Introducing a three-dimensional interactive semiotic model of environmental change" was held on day one (November 27th) and starts at 4:31:14 on the recordings from that day.

Biosemiotics 13(3) published; last issue with me as an EiC

Biosemiotics 13(3) has now been published, see table of contents and links to articles here. This is the last issue from my 7-year period as an Editor-in-Chief (currently along with Alexei Sharov and Filip Jaros).

Thursday 3 December 2020

#30,5

Today I have had half an article writing day, with some 400 words written on my chapter "Umwelt theory for practitioners", and the literature search completed.

Wednesday 2 December 2020

#30

Today I have had half an article writing day devoted to my article "Umwelt theory for practitioners", with literature search conducted and some 300 words written. Total number of writing days this autumn is up to 30.

2 meetings

Today I have attended two meetings, the meeting of the facultys appointments committee, and a meeting involving the faculty leadership.

Tuesday 1 December 2020

3 meetings and a work lunch

Today I have attended the faculty leadership group meeting, a faculty staff meeting (via Zoom, attended by some 40 people) on the faculty´s strategy, and a research administration meeting. I have also had a work lunch with a colleague.