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.
Today I have had an article writing day, with some 350 words written, mainly on a revised version of my "UNDP Letter" which is now to be expanded into an full research article. I also did a little work on my article "Wasted GDP in major economies" and a few other article projects. So far this Spring I have had 4,5 writing days including 1 article writing day.
My journal article "Wasted GDP in the USA", published October 2023, has now reached 12.000 accesses, according to the publisher´s article website. It remains my second-most read article after "The ethics of laying hen genetics" (2019) which has had 14.000 accesses.
According to Google Scholar (cf. my profile) my research has to date attracted 1.172 citations (+17 since June 29th), including 117 citations so far in 2024 (+16 since June 29th). My h-index remains 19, and my i10-index 36.
I noticed a hickup in the system: My recent article "Wasted GDP in the USA" (2023) was previously registered by Google Scholar, but had now fallen out, and I had to add it manually.
Today I have had half an article day with some work done related to two articles of mine, one of them work-titled "Wasted GDP in major economies" and the other one being my "UNDP letter" addressing the HDI´s maximum threshold for income (see also the previous post). So far this Autumn I have had 37,5 writing days.
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 an article writing day, writing day #27 this Spring, with work done on various writing projects, including:
Doing some searching and thinking about possible journal for the GDP review article I co-write with Jan Karlstrøm
Confirming that I will write a second chapter on the work of Henrik Steffens, and coming up with the work-title "Steffens´ early outlook reconsidered: Nature conceptions of the industrial-age Anthropocene", and composing/extracting some 200 words in the process
Looking through some suggestions concerning the article on Arne Næss and economics which I co-write with Jan Karlstrøm and Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Proof-reading my chapter "A Biosemiotic Perspective on the Human Condition and the Environmental Crisis" for the book Elemental-Embodied Thinking for a New Era.
Choosing a work-title for the first follow-up to my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", namely "Wasted GDP in major economies: With time series data", and starting on a manuscript file
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My article "Wasted GDP in the USA", published last October, has now reached 10.000 Article accesses. This is the quickest any of my articles have reached that many reads.
My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has passed 9000 Accesses (reads), now standing at 9009 (+300 since Friday). Its Altmetric score stands at 1012 (+3 since Friday).
The Altmetric score of my article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has now exceeded 1000, currently standing at 1009 (+14 since Wednesday). This is based on mentions by 1610 X users (1850 posts), 3 news outlets, 2 Redittors, and 11 on Mendeley (cf. more detailed metrics).
The article has had 8.709 Accesses or reads (+ 845 since Wednesday).
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"Wasted GDP in the USA" trending again; shared 2-300 more times on Twitter; Altmetric score now 995
Today I have had half a writing day of sorts, devoted to exploring further mentions of my article "Wasted GDP in the USA", cf. the two previous posts about media and Twitter appearances.
My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" is referenced in the news story "Can ‘degrowth’ solve our ecological, social & economic problems?" by Mike DiGirolamo and Rachel Donald which was published on the international environmental issues news site Mongabay on January 30th, along with a podcast featuring economist Timothée Parrique, who is currently based at Lund University, Sweden. In the podcast, Timothée talks about my research around 18m30s - 21m40s, and later on, around 59m - 1h05m, Mike and Rachel discuss it.
The Mongabay article has been republished by South Africa Today on February 2nd.
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Recent research indicates that the United States wastes 65% of its economic output on things that do not provide essential or quality-of-life needs, bolstering the argument that the economy could be strongly scaled back to decrease its impact on the environment.
Research published in the journal Humanities and Social Sciences Communications finds that just in the United States, trillions of dollars are wasted on things that do not improve the quality of life for Americans. Podcast guest Timothée Parrique, an economist and researcher at the Lund University School of Economics and Management, argues this is strong evidence that the United States (and other wealthy, industrialized nations) could significantly scale back production and consumption, thereby decreasing their impact on the planet’s stretched ecological limits — the Planetary Boundaries — allowing low- and middle-income nations the latitude they need to raise their standards of living.
My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has now been referred to in media based in the USA, Spain, and South Africa, in addition to Mongabay.
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News story on "Wasted GDP in the USA" article in Spanish online newspaper La Politica Online
"Wasted GDP in the USA" mentioned in Counterpunch news story
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.
My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" appears to have been included in the Humanities & Social Sciences Communications Collection "Towards a wellbeing economy", which has submission deadline December 31st and is edited by Milena Büchs, Theocharis Kromydas, Hiroaki Matsuura, Prajal Pradhan & Claudimar Pereira da Veiga. For now, 8 articles are included in the collection.
My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" now has 4.910 Article accesses. This is up 1.211 since Monday morning and up 1.892 since last Friday. Nice development.
My article Wasted GDP in the USA, published recently in Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, is mentioned today in an article by the US online news outlet Counterpunch, in the article "Roaming Charges: Politics of the Lesser Exterminators". Excerpts below.
My article "Wasted GDP in the USA" has now been shared 1544 times on Twitter, resulting in an Online attention score of 833, according to Altmetrics´ article metrics. The number of article accesses is now 3018 (+482 since Wednesday). In terms of Online attention, the article is ranked 411th of the 296,985 tracked articles of a similar age in all journals, and it is ranked 1st of the 191 tracked articles of a similar age in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
Their more detailed article metrics says that the article now ranks #21.096 of all articles tracked by Altmetric altogether, which is about 24,8 million articles. This means it is among the 1 in 1000 articles with the most Online attention. It ranks as #4 of 1.605 articles from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and as #411 of 296.985 articles of a similar age generally. The article has been mentioned in 1544 tweets by 1366 Twitter/X users, with 3,3 million followers in total.
Altmetric also lists mention of my article by one news outlet, namely Counterpunch. It has also been extensively described in a Spanish newspaper article in La Politica Online.
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"Wasted GDP in the USA" shared 1200 times on Twitter, 800 reads last two days (November 15th)
My journal article "Wasted GDP in the USA" is featured in a news story in the Spanish online newspaper La Politica Online, titled ""PIB desperdiciado": cuando el crecimiento económico no repercute en el bienestar humano y social" (""Wasted GDP": when economic growth has no impact on human and social well-being"). The journalist who wrote the story, which features extensive description of my article, and some comments made by Jason Hickel on Twitter, is Andrés Arctis.
This is what is currently shown on the front page of the newspaper:
