Wednesday 7 February 2024

"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.

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