My article "Wasted GDP in the USA", which was published Autumn 2023, now has 17.000 accesses. This compares to about 14.000 accesses by March this year, and likely makes it my most read article, ahead of "The ethics of laying hen genetics" (2019) which now stands at 16.000 accesses.
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My 10 most read Springer Nature articles; ca. 60.000 accesses in total (March 2025)
Today I discovered that my 2023 article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has been included in another collection by Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, where it appeared, namely the collection "Top 50 papers: 2015-2024". The collection was released January 20th 2025.
"The articles have been selected based on a combination of metrics (citation counts, downloads and Altmetric scores)", according to the journal. The collection features "some of this journal’s most impactful and accessed research from the past decade". Altogether the journal appears to have published about 4.000 articles over its first decade.
My article is one of 15 articles published in the past three years (2022-2024) that have been included in the collection.
According to Springer Nature, these are my most accessed Springer articles:
1 (1). The Ethics of Laying Hen Genetics (Mia Fernyhough et al., Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2019) 14.986 (12.924)
2 (3). Wasted GDP in the USA (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2023) 14.297 (5.144)
3 (2). Umwelt Transitions: Uexküll and Environmental Change (Biosemiotics, 2009) 6.175 (5.155)
4 (4). Phenomenology and Biosemiotics (Morten Tønnessen, Timo Maran & Alexei Sharov, Biosemiotics, 2018) 5.675 (4.648)
5 (5). Jesper Hoffmeyer’s Biosemiotic Legacy (Morten Tønnessen, Alexei Sharov & Timo Maran, Biosemiotics, 2019) 3.789 (3.279)
6 (6). Current Human Ecology in the Amazon and beyond: a Multi-Scale Ecosemiotic Approach (Biosemiotics, 2020) 3.673 (3.041)
7 (7). Towards Synthesis of Biology and Semiotics (Alexei Sharov, Timo Maran & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2015) 3.022 (2.672)
8 (8). Biosemiotic Achievement Award for the Year 2020 (Claudio Julio Rodríguez Higuera & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2021) 2.908 (2.644)
9 (9). Comprehending the Semiosis of Evolution (Alexei Sharov, Timo Maran & Morten Tønnessen, Biosemiotics, 2016) 2.892 (2.546)
10 (10). Making the Umwelt Bubble of the Modern Synthesis Burst (Biosemiotics, 2021) 2.552 (2.131)
Combined these 10 articles have been accessed 59.969 times to date (vs. 44.184 as of November 2023, meaning they have been accessed a total of 15.785 times over the last one and a half year or so). My two most read articles account for almost half of the total of the top 10 articles, and "Wasted GDP in the USA" accounts for more than half of my top 10 article reads since November 2023.
I gave a similar overview in the post "My 10 most accessed articles with Springer Nature; ca. 44.000 accesses combined" (November 2023). Changes in ranking and number of accesses are shown above.
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"Wasted GDP in the USA" reaches 12.000 accesses (September 2024)
The 39 most read texts on my ResearchGate profile (July 2023)
Webstats, Scribd: 14 documents with 1,000+ reads (January 2014)
I recently did a peer review for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" appears on #1 on Humanities and social sciences communications´ "Top 10 by Altmetric attention score" list for articles published in 2023. It currently has an Altmetric score of 1006, which is the highest achieved by any article published in Humanities and social sciences communications in 2023.
The journal has made a collection featuring the top 10 articles by citations, downloads, and Altmetric attention score titled "Top articles of 2023". Follow the link to see all three Top 10 lists.
Today I have had a writing day, no. 40,5 this Spring, devoted to revising my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", with some 400 words added net.
Today I have had a writing day, #39,5 this Spring, devoted to revising my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", with some 500 words written and chunks of text moved to an Appendix.
Today I have had writing day no. 42 this Spring, focused on finishing splitting my initial manuscript for my first wasted growth article in three parts. And so I did. In the process, today some 400 words have been added to the texts, net.
Today I have had an article writing today devoted to our GDP article and revision plans for my first wasted growth article - after having received a "major revisions" decision from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Today I have had an article writing day devoted to proof-reading my chapter "Neurosemiotics across species", resubmitting my article "Wasted growth - case study: The American dream or nightmare?" (to Humanities and social sciences communications, cf. recent post on rejection), and working on my chapter "Nosology and semiotics", with some 200 words written.
Total number of writing days so far this Spring is up to 3.
