Book chapter "Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered: Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene" published

The book Philosophising with Rocks. Henrik Steffens and the Anthropocene, edited by Benedikt Jager and Marius Timmann Mjaaland, has now been published by Karl Alber Verlag (with contributions in English and German). The book includes my chapter "Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered: Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene". This is the second chapter I have written on the work of Steffens, but the first to be published (the first was approved a long time ago but remains to appear in print).

Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2026. Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered: Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene. Pp. 83–102 in Andreas Benedikt Jager & Marius Timmann Mjaaland (eds.), Philosophizing with Rocks: Henrik Steffens and the Anthropocene. Karl Alber Verlag.

The book is available for sale and as Open Access. See also the chapter on my ResearchGate profile.

5,000 reads of chapter "Introduction: The semiotics of animal representations" on ResearchGate

According to ResearchGate our chapter "Introduction: The semiotics of animal representations" (co-written with Kadri Tüür) has reached 5,000 reads on their platform.  Read the chapter here.

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.

200 recommendations on ResearchGate

According to ResearhGate, my research publications registered there have now reached 200 recommendations from fellow researchers.

See my ResearchGate profile and my 99 research items registered there to date.

Google Scholar: 1251 citations by year-end; 180 in 2024

On the last day of 2024, according to my Google scholar profile, my research has attracted 1251 citations (+3 since December 17th). This includes 180 citations in 2024 (+3 since December 17th). My h-index remains 20 and my i10-index 38. 136 texts are listed on my profile.

As of today, my best years in terms of citations are:

#1 2022 (189)

#2 2024 (180)

#3 2023 (171)

#4 2021 (149)

#5 2016 (92)

#6 2020 (90)

However, it has happened that these numbers have changed early in the next year. By year-end 2022, for instance, 2021 was registered with 184 citations, while some of these were later moved to 2022.

Unfortunately Google Scholars does not count the citations of my 2023 article "Wasted GDP in the USA", which has 2 citations according to Springer Nature/CrossRef and 7 citations according to ResearchGate.

"Ecological semiotics" chapter published

Last week I was informed that my chapter "Ecological semiotics" has been published. First published as a stand-alone chapter as of now, it is part of the 3rd edition of Elsevier´s Encyclopedia of Ecology, which will appear with organized volumes in January 2026.

Reference:

Tønnessen, Morten 2024. Ecological semiotics. Chapter. Encyclopedia of Ecology (3rd edition) (Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences). Elsevier. 9 pp. Planned publication for encyclopedia volumes January 16th, 2026. Abstract online October 19th 2024; chapter published November 21st 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-21964-1.00018-5.

The chapter can also be requested via my ResearchGate profile page if you are registered there.

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%).

"The ethics of laying hen genetics" with 2.500 reads on ResearchGate

The article "The ethics of laying hen genetics", which I co-wrote and which was published in Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics, has reached 2.500 reads on ResearchGate. It has been read about 13.000 times on the journal´s homepage.

"Wasted GDP in the USA" with 9 recommendations on ResearchGate

My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" now has 9 recommendations on ResearchGate, which is a doubling in a few days, and high compared to the mere 63 reads there so far.

"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).

#2

Today I have had a writing day, the 2nd this Autumn, with some 250 words added to my book manuscript Captured: The fight for the soul of the environmental movement. For now I am still working on expanding the bibliography and index. I have also worked a little on the accessability of my published works via ResearchGate.

See also:

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

The 39 most read texts on my ResearchGate 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. 

Call for papers: "Umwelt theory and phenomenology" - special issue of Biosemiotics

I will be guest-editing a special issue of Biosemiotics on "Umwelt theory and phenomenology" along with Carlo Brentari. See the Call for Papers here. Abstracts are due June 15th.

"Existential universals" chapter now available via ResearchGate

My chapter "Existential universals: Biosemiosis and existential semiosis" has been published by De Gruyter Mouton as part of Eero Tarasti´s book Transcending signs - Essays in existential semiotics. I have now uploaded a private copy of the chapter to my ResearchGate profile, so that I can more easily share it if scholars request a copy. Feel free to do so.

ResearchGate stats: "Research Interest Score" of 400.0, 18,340 Reads

ResearchGate stats: I currently have a "Research Interest Score" of 400.0, 18,340 Reads, 414 Citations (h-index of 12), 28 Recommendations and 719 Mentions by their metrics. Cf. my profile page there.

In comparison I recorded ca. 7.000 reads by early 2020 and ca. 11.000 reads by early 2021.

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.