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January 09, 2025
2024 Retrospective: Most Downloaded Articles
Writing about web page https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/issue/archive
Looking back to the most downloaded articles published in Exchanges in the past year, along with a special focus on those first published in 2024. Small surprises and recurring old friends abound.
Following on my previous two posts looking at popular issues and podcast episodes, today my attention turns to the subject probably of most interest to our readers: the most popular articles. 2024 was a halcyon year for Exchanges as we published the most articles in our 12 year history. 67 articles across nearly 1,000 pages – quite an accomplishment for the authors and editorial team members! Yet, currency doesn’t always equate with immediacy of academic interest, and as you’ll see from the chart below, the most popular articles with our readers last year demonstrate the longevity of value readers ascribe to pieces appearing in our pages.[1]
As is often the way with these charts, there are always some surprises. However, I was not surprised to see Pavel Fedotov’s article atop the list for the second year in a row. I’ve been periodically glancing at the download statistics through the year, and this paper has continued to show an almost relentless level of interest from our readership. No doubt the twin focus on manufacturing and the electric vehicle industry has a strong, and salient, resonance with researchers globally. If anyone wanted to write a follow-up, counterpoint or companion article, I suspect you’d benefit from a similar degree of interest. Just a suggestion, mind you.
Taking a more holistic view, I am pleased looking across the whole chart to spot that we have a good mix of old favourites and new entries appearing in the top 10 downloads. I am, personally, especially delighted to spot one article from 2024 making the cut as well, with Rita Augestad Knudsen’s article Mental Health Exemptions to Criminal Responsibility popping up in the number 7 position. My congratulations to Rita for authoring a paper with such an immediate interest across our readership – and if you’ve not read it yet, I certainly commend it to you! It’s a gripping and inciteful piece of work, and certainly a personal favourite of mine from last year.
Interestingly, while we do still have interest in articles way back to Exchanges’ early days, it is noticeable that 8 out of the top 10 come from pieces published since 2020 – what might be described as the ‘relatively recent’ period [2]. While, as a humanities scholar I do like to acknowledge the long tail of interest in research knowledge in my own domain, it is clear readers have a particular interest in our more recent publications. Glancing back at last year’s top 10, this currency trend was, if anything, even more pronounced in 2024! As I noted in the most popular issues post, interest in whole volumes of Exchanges prior to 2016 is certainly diminishing too. Make of this what you will, and if you’ve any thoughts on this or the value of continued archival access to ‘older’ materials – let me know in the comments below.
Curiously, the most venerable article in the chart, Eve Benhamou’s From the Advent of Multiculturalism to the Elision of Race, hails from Vol 2(1) of the journal, back in late 2014. I am curious if the topic or contents of the paper alone are responsible for the continued interest? I note this, due to the certain mouse-centric global media goliath mentioned in the article’s subtitle. Benhamou’s article is a frequent entrant in our top 10 annual lists, and hence I have long been intrigued to know if garners readers due to its scholarly contents or from a more casual ‘fan audience’? While I doubt I’ll ever know the answer to this – available metrics do little to clarify it further – if you happen to be one of this paper’s many readers last year, drop me a line and let me know why you love it so much.
Most Popular Article in Each New 2024 Issue
Now, the above chart represents the most popular articles in 2024 across all 30 volumes of the journal published since 2013. But what about the most recent four issues we published in 2024? Which article has had the standout performance in each of these, seems a salient companion question to ask. Curiously this was a statistic which took more digging than I anticipated [3], but after half an hour of data retrieval, number crunching and cross checking to make sure I’d not missed anyone out – I am able to reveal which are the most popular items in each of 2024’s issues of Exchanges.
| Volume | Author | Title | Type |
| 11.2 (Spring) | Rita Augestad Knudsen | Mental Health Exemptions to Criminal Responsibility: Between law, medicine, politics and security | Article |
| 11.3 (Research Culture) | Jemina Napier et al., | Empowering a Global Community Through Co-Production of a Connected University Research Culture | Critical Reflection |
| 11.4 (MRC@50) | Setara Pracha | Moving on from Manderley | Critical Reflection |
| 12.1 (Autumn) | Simon Gansinger | Max Horkheimer on Law's Force of Resistance | Critical Reflection |
Okay. Given Rita Augestad Knudsen’s article Mental Health Exemptions to Criminal Responsibility appears in our top 10 overall above there is no surprise that it was also the most popular article in our Spring (Vol 11.2, April) issue. As I’ve already noted, it was a worthy top-dog. Moving on though, to the next issue, our packed Research Culture special (Vol 11.3, August), there was plenty of competition among the 30+ articles within its pages. Curiously, it’s also the article Empowering a Global Community Through Co-Production of a Connected University Research Culture which appears right at the end of the volume, from Jemina Napier et al, which generated the most interest.[4] Glad to see those articles I schedule in the latter parts of the journal still can receive such great attention from the readership.
Now, I was especially curious to see which article would prove the most popular in our Modern Records Centre @ 50 special issue (Vol 11.4, September). I had some thoughts, but I couldn’t say for sure if my favourites were likely to be the same ones which resonated most strongly with the readership. It turns out, actually by a not inconsiderable margin, that Setara Pracha’s article was the winner here. I do recall spending ages finding the right image to accompany its entry in the table of contents, so am delighted that lots of our readers decided to spend some time with Moving on from Manderley. Finally, turning to our final issue of the year (Vol 12.1, October) and we find Simon Gansigner’s intriguing piece concerning Max Horkheimer on Law's Force of Resistance makes the cut. This is a great scholarly piece, and I am delighted to see it receiving such a strong reception from the readers too.
Well done to all the authors appearing in both these lists – and thank you especially to those who contributed to our 2024 publications!
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So, there you go, the most popular articles last year across our whole back-catalogue, alongside those new champions emerging fresh-faced from last year’s new issues. Are you as devastated as I am, that none of the editorials made the cut?[5] Is your favourite article among them, or was something else we published last year your genuine #1 for 2024?
As always, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Endnotes
[1] All values are for downloads of the PDF or HTML version of each article, ignoring people who only accessed each article’s landing page. For an access date range 1st January to 31st December 2024, (GMT).
[2] 5 of these are from the ‘post pandemic’ era of 2022-2024 as well.
[3] As I’ve said before, OJS’ native analytical tools are not well configured for real world use. In fact a number of the tools seem to do nothing useful at all! It’s a genuine, and ongoing, frustration in terms of producing rapid or real-time metrics.
[4] Clearly our readers diligently do scan through the entire contents page to the very end! Either that, or the author has well promoted the piece too. We find those authors who share their articles over social media – especially Linked.In, do seem to get increased traction and readership over those that don’t.
[5] Actually, if any of my editorials had appeared in either list I would have been both personally flabbergasted and mildly shocked that the richer content in the actual articles hadn’t gained as much attention!
Gareth Johnson
09 Jan 2025 10:06
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January 08, 2025
2024 Retrospective: Most Streamed Podcast Episodes
Writing about web page https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/podcast
With over a dozen episodes to enjoy last year, which podcast episode of the Exchanges Discourse found the most favour with our audience? A surprise or two awaits.
Following on from yesterday’s article, today I’m looking back at the episodes of the Exchanges Discourse Podcast published last year. This means we’re considering all 14 episodes recorded and released to on our Spotify home over 2024.[1] Now, as with all things, those episodes which appeared earlier in the year have a certain advantage over others in the ratings, as there’s more time for them to be picked up by listeners than those appearing towards the end of 2024. However, as you’ll see from the chart below – primacy of release doesn’t always guarantee high ratings!
| Position | Episode | Listen | Duration |
| 1 | Biochar, Artificial Pollination & Multispecies Justice: In Conversation with Catherine Price | Play | 25m24s |
| 2 | Energy Poetry One: Harnessing the Wind | Play | 29m19s |
| 3 | Voices of Transnational Girlhood(s) on Identity, Gender, and Culture: In Conversation with Simona Di Martino | Play | 22m23s |
| 4= | Researcher Vulnerability and Physical Impacts: In Conversation with Mia-Marie Hammarlin | Play | 39m30s |
| 4= | Postdisciplinarity, Ontologies & Futures: In Conversation with Liam Greenacre | Play | 12m58s |
So, what was our number 1, most listened to episode for 2024? Well, it’s perhaps no surprise that returning podcast guest Catherine Price’s chat around Biochar and Multispecies released back in January last year is at the top of the heap! Although, while it’s early release will have helped, a lot of its popularity will also be due to Catherine being such a charming and informative guest, making the episode is an especially enjoyable listen. What is surprising though is that as we move down to the number 2 position we find our guest podcast from our poetic Irish colleagues on Harnessing the Wind. As this episode only came along at the end of November, it’s managed to leapfrog past many other longer released episodes to come up the chart quite rapidly. No doubt as 2025 moves along, I wouldn’t be surprised it we weren’t looking at a future all-time top-rated episode here! [2]
Another semi-guest episode comes in at number 3, with my chat with Simona Di Martino on Voices of Transnational Girlhood and Identity. Simona isn’t talking about an article in Exchanges [3], but as one of our former IAS fellows it was still a delight to have Simona on. Clearly looking at the episodes statistics that’s an opinion with which our listening audience agrees. Bringing up the bottom two places of our top five are two jointly fourth placed episodes from Mia-Marie Hammarlin and Liam Greenacre. Liam’s episode, on Postdisciplinarity, has the advantage of being one of those recorded earlier in 2024, so has gained in listeners over the year. By contrast, Swedish academic Mia-Marie’s episode – a timely piece on researcher vulnerability - was only released in early December. I suspect like our energy poetry episode above, this will be another discussion whose ratings will continue to climb over the coming months. I enjoyed both of these chats, but especially my wide-ranging discussions with Mia-Marie, possibly because of the closeness of our own disciplinary alignments.[4]
Incidentally, while it came out in late 2023 and so isn’t appearing in this chart, our highest overall rated episode – of all time – are my discussions with Moroccan scholar, scientist and author Intissar Haddiya. Wonderful to see how popular this one continues to be with our audiences, especially as it was one of the more unusual episodes with Intissar being the subject rather than the author of an article in Exchanges! Maybe we should record more of these kind of episodes – what do you think?
So, there you have it, the highlights of last year’s podcast episodes. Was your favourite episode among them? Were there other lower rated episodes that inspired you instead? And more importantly, as I’m in the process of scheduling the first recordings for 2025 – who should we interview next?
As always, let me know your thoughts in the comments below.
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Endnotes
[1] And available on other platforms too.
[2] And we’ll be looking forward to their next submission in the coming weeks for this series too.
[3] More’s the pity, as her work is in a fascinating and revelatory area.
[4] I am, after all, allowed these tiny biases.
Gareth Johnson
08 Jan 2025 09:50
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January 07, 2025
2024 Retrospective: Most Popular Issue
Writing about web page https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/issue/archive
Which of our 30 published issues had the most whole-issue downloads during 2024? Some of the results may surprise you – they did us!
As has been our long tradition at the start of a new year, I like to look back over the past 12 months at some of the statistics for the most popular items appearing in Exchanges as well as podcast listener levels too. This year thanks to an OJS system reporting update, I’m also able to share for the first time, which were the most popular whole issues of the journal – this is in terms of the number of downloads of entire issues.[1] Readers will probably know it is possible to download the entire contents of each Exchanges issue as a single file, and this is what we’re tracking. When it comes to individual articles, I’ll be sharing those insights in a future post in the coming days.
| Position | Volume | Title | Year |
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11 (3) |
Special Issue: Research Culture '24 |
2024 |
| 2 | 9 (3) | Special Issue: The Lonely Nerd | 2022 |
| 3 | 11(2) | Spring 2024 | 2024 |
| 4 | 5(2) | Spring 2018 | 2018 |
| 5 | 11(1) | Autumn 2023 | 2023 |
At a glance, it is (perhaps) no surprise how our glorious Research Culture ‘24 special issue (vol 11.3) is riding high – given the vast size of the issue and wide range of authors and topics appearing in that issue. If anything, I would have been surprised NOT to have seen this issue atop our chart, and its appearance is a credit to everyone involved in its creation.[2] I am more surprised but still delighted to see another of our special issues, vol 9.3 The Lonely Nerd appearing close behind in the number 2 position. Gratifying to see a few years on that this fascinating collection of articles is still resonating with our readership, as it did at the time of publication too. The third position is taken by last year’s regular spring issue (vol 11.2), which is pleasing to see, although doubtlessly it has beaten out the other issues published last year simply due to having had the longest stretch of time post-publication to make an impression! [3]
Now, the fourth place is another little surprise, as it’s vol 5.2 – the very first issue with myself as Chief Editor, which is oddly slightly gratifying. I don’t recall this one being especially impactful,[4] but clearly it remains resonate with the readership 7 years on. Now, that is quite an impressive legacy! Finally, in our top 5 chart it is another of our recent issues, as 2023’s closing volume 11.1 arrives in a most commendable fifth place. This was our 10th birthday issue, as you might recall. While I would love to assume that its celebratory and retrospective contents have helped its continuing traction with readers, I strongly suspect it’s the enduring quality of the articles which provided any uplift!
And the wooden spoon? Someone always has to be last, and unsurprisingly it’s the very first issue of Exchanges (vol 1.1) from back in 2013. Along with a number of issues from 2017 and older, this publication scored no actual downloads of full issues last year – although individual articles still saw interest. How did it come last when there are other without whole issue downloads? Well, that’s because I can also track visitors to each journal issue’s landing page too, on top of downloads. Among these, poor old vol 1.1 has the lowest overall figure, which given it was our first issue all those years ago, is something which doesn’t come as a massive surprise to me.
Anyway, that’s your guide to the hottest issues of last year – which one was your favourite? Let me know! See you in the next post to look at most popular podcast episodes!
Endnotes
[1] There is, no doubt, a more sophisticated analysis which can be done here – normalising the downloads against the number of total articles.
[2] It has around 40% more downloads than the issue in second place. A worthy winner.
[3] For the record the other issues of 2024 - vol 11.4 (MRC) was in sixth, and vol 12.1 (October ’24) in 15th, out of 30 issues overall.
[4] I mostly remember the scramble to get it published as I frantically worked through the first month or two of my new post.
Gareth Johnson
07 Jan 2025 11:14
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November 07, 2024
Discussing Reviewer Suitability & Citation Justice with Early Stage Scholars
The first training session of the new academic session brought discussions around reviewer quality.
This week I had the pleasure of contributing to Harriet Richmond’s early-stage researcher session focussing on publication. As blog readers will be aware, I’ve been feeding into these sessions for almost three years now, around once a term generally. As always it was a pleasure to collaborate with Harriet, who is a great teacher and all round good-egg. Certainly I always come away with some thoughts on improving my own teaching, or new piece of information to ruminate upon, so being involved is always a win-win for me.
I also enjoy participating because these workshop sessions are also a wonderful opportunity to share some of my personal experiences as an editor and reviewer with researchers who are a little earlier in their career track than I. The hope is – like this week’s cohort – that it sparks some conversation and perhaps demystifies the area a little. I do often feel it’s a shame that in the post-pandemic period we’ve kept the workshops online only, which perhaps slightly curtails a more free-flowing exchange of thoughts and ideas. That might be a personal preference for ‘live’ performance in my teaching, and I can see why the delegates enjoy not having to schlep into campus for the sessions: less time away from the lab and office probably pays them dividends in a busy schedule. No matter, as always, this week’s exchange online was still good enough to pick up on a few new threads of conversation.
This time around I introduced ideas of citation justice, as discussed in our recent podcast, into the debate. This arose out of a delegate discussion about questionable citation habits and bias within them. It was handy to be able to talk a little about these concepts and highlight some of the ideas around introducing a ‘beneficial bias’: although, I should note that for now Exchanges has no hard and fast policy in this area. All the same, I’ll be looking forward to reading the Reinvention report, and perhaps kicking off some policy discussions with my Board as a result. Getting better and broader representation within article citations can only benefit readers, researchers and authors alike in my opinion.
We also got into an interesting debate over journals/editors and their ability to pick ‘quality’ reviewers. Now, if you’re an editor you probably don’t need me to tell you how challenging it can be, with the hundreds of thousands [1] of manuscripts annually in need of multiple reviewers, especially with academics’ time increasingly stretched across so many research, teaching and administration priorities. With this initial hill to climb just to get >any< reviewers on board, conceptualisations of also judging their quality beyond a simple visit to their personal/professional website [2] sounds like an even bigger slope to ascend. As journal editors we offer lots of guidance to reviewers on how to do a quality job, as well as advising reviewers about those times when they feel they might be out-of-scope for a particular paper [3]. Truth be told though, much of the responsibility for invalidating a reviewer does seem to fall on the prospective reviewers’ shoulders themselves. It’s a bit of a sector norm, and perhaps one which deserves some greater consideration – I’ve certainly been inspired to look around and see what other journals are doing. Perhaps a small debate among my editorial team is also worthwhile following up on these conversations too – we do have a Board meeting scheduled for next month after all!
This week’s session also saw the second running of my ‘you are the reviewer!’ case study challenge, wherein the delegates had to make a judgement on several not-so-hypothetical reviewing problems. Once again the delegates rose to the challenge well, and it was good to see that the approach we had adopted in each case – the examples being anonymised but real ones – seemed to chime with the views of the scholars present. I might tweak the examples for the next running of the course in the new year though, just to avoid things becoming too staid or stale.
So, a good session from my perspective, and I hope from the delegates too. I think my next task is to take that annual look at my teaching notes and think about how my contribution could be tweaked or improved. I certainly got the feeling this time, that another refresh of the slides and accompanying interactions could do with another polish!
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Endnotes
[1] Almost certainly more when you consider how many articles are rejected annually. With a ~50% decline rate for Exchanges the 68 articles we published this years therefore equates to ~140 submissions as a back of the envelope calculation. And we’re a relatively small journal with a small ingest of article submissions!
[2] Or of course knowing them in person.
[3] Doubly tricky for interdisciplinary papers where few, if anyone other than the author, will be entirely conversant with the paper’s themes, methodologies and methods.
Gareth Johnson
07 Nov 2024 09:13
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September 17, 2024
Attending the International Research Culture Conference 2024
Writing about web page https://warwick.ac.uk/research/ncrc/ircc/
Second research culture conference is a time to celebrate and look to the future.
Yesterday I went along as Exchanges Chief Editor to attend the second International Research Culture Conference(IRCC '24), hosted at Warwick once more. As readers will remember at the 2023 event we launched our collaboration with the National Centre for Research Culture and the work began towards producing our first research culture special issue. That came out last month, and if you haven’t read it yet – you really should.
Yesterday was a chance, alongside listening to a range of informative and engaging speakers, to celebrate this publication a little. More importantly thought it was a chance to announce the call for the next research culture special issue – arising from this year’s conference. That, and of course my call for more associate editors to get involved. Delegates to the event will soon have a mailshot with more information about that.
It was a long day, but another one where I spent most of the moments between sessions talking to various delegates about the journal, our plans and how they can get involved. My thanks to everyone who stopped by our stall for a little chat – and I hope you enjoyed our little bits of promotional merchandise too. And my thanks to the NCRC for working with us once again in launching this second exciting issue call.
Next up though, my focus will be swinging firmly back onto the MRC @ 50 special issue – coming very, very soon to your screens.
Gareth Johnson
17 Sep 2024 09:23
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April 26, 2024
Issue 11(2) of Exchanges Has been Published
Writing about web page https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2
The spring issue of Exchanges is here, bringing with it a wonderful assortment of articles.
As many of you have noticed the new issue of Exchanges was published today. As always this is the end point of many months of effort by diligent authors, reviewers and editors, to whom I’d like to express my thanks.
This issue we are especially excited to be able to bring you many of the papers we hoped to include in a special volume on the effects of plurality on translation. Regrettably for one reason or another many of the papers we had for this issue (submitted a year or two back) didn’t make it to the end. What we do have though in this issue is a wonderful selection of those which have reached publication status. Rather than hold on any longer, we agreed to publish them as a special section in the journal.[1]
On top of this we’ve some other cracking articles outside the theme to share with you as well – here’s the TOC for your ease of access and reading.
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Mark Pope et al. Pushing the Boundaries of Reflection: The Answer’s on a postcard. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1245
Rita Augestad Knudsen. Mental Health Exemptions to Criminal Responsibility: Between law, medicine, politics and security. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2), 29-54. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1369
Lisa M Thomas at al. Assembling with VR: Dancing in a more than human world. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2), 55-83. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1498
Cristina Peligra. Voices and/of Places: The English translation of Helga Ruebsamen’s Het lied en de waarheid (The Song and The Truth) as a case study of identity and plurality in translation. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2) 84-106. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1141
Natalia Rodriguez Blanco. Plurilingual Perspectives, Pluricultural Contexts: A case study on Agence-France Presse news coverage about the plurinational State of Bolivia in Spanish, French, and English. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2), 107-132. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1137
Alka Vishwakarma. Translating Ramayana: Plurilingual to pluricultural. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2), 133-160. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1144
Luis Damián Moreno García. Subtitling Hong Kong Code-Mixing and Code-Switching: The case of Netflix English and Spanish official subtitles for Hongkonese audiovisual creations. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2), 161-187. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1155
Jonathan Vickery. Critical Reflections on Universities, Publishing, and the Early Career Experience. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2), 188-202. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1583
Liam Greenacre. Postdisciplinary Knowledge, Edited by Tomas Pernecky. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2), 203-208. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1464
Gareth J Johnson. Five Minutes to Midnight: Editorial, Volume 11, Part 2. Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 11(2) i-xiii. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2.1606
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Of course you could always access the issue as a whole directly:
https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v11i2 & https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/issue/view/98
The next issue of Exchanges will be one of our summer special issues – which one I can’t say for sure – so watch out for that as the days grow longer, warmer and maybe even drier here in the UK.
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[1] There are two or three more papers for this special issue which are still under review and development, which we hope to be able to share with you in the October issue of the journal.
Gareth Johnson
26 Apr 2024 16:45
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