Which topics from our Biomedical/Life and Physical Sciences collections generated the most attention from readers in 2021?
In 2021, Annual Reviews published 47 journals in our Biomedical/Life and Physical Sciences collections. The articles below represent highly downloaded articles from these volumes during the year.
Return to Most Read Articles in 2021 Collection
TOP 10 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM 2021 BIOMEDICAL/LIFE SCIENCE VOLUMES:
Understanding and Responding to Health Literacy as a Social Determinant of Health
Don Nutbeam and Jane E. Lloyd, Annual Review of Public Health
Evolution of Insect Color Vision: From Spectral Sensitivity to Visual Ecology
Almut Kelber, Casper J. van der Kooi, Doekele G. Stavenga, Gregor Beluŝič, and Kentaro Arikawa, Annual Review of Entomology
Active Forgetting: Adaptation of Memory by Prefrontal Control
Justin C. Hulbert and Michael C. Anderson, Annual Review of Psychology
Climate Change Disinformation and How to Combat It
Stephan Lewandowsky, Annual Review of Public Health
Fluid Dynamics of Respiratory Infectious Diseases
Lydia Bourouiba, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
Engineering IL-2 to Give New Life to T Cell Immunotherapy
Jonathan Zalevsky, Mary A. Tagliaferri, and Willem W. Overwijk, Annual Review of Medicine
The Society of Algorithms
Jenna Burrell and Marion Fourcade, Annual Review of Sociology
Resilience in Development and Psychopathology: Multisystem Perspectives
Ann S. Masten, Cara M. Lucke, Isabella C. Stallworthy, and Kayla M. Nelson, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Population Health and Health System Implications
Colleen E. Reid, David M. Hondula, Jane W. Baldwin, Jennifer Vanos, Jesse E. Bell, June Spector, Katie Hayes, Kristie L. Ebi, Nicole A. Errett, Peter Berry, and Shubhayu Saha, Annual Review of Public Health
Prejudice Reduction: Progress and Challenges
Chelsey S. Clark, Donald P. Green, Elizabeth Levy Paluck, and Roni Porat, Annual Review of Psychology
Algorithmic Fairness: Choices, Assumptions, and Definitions
Alexander D'Amour, Eric Potash, Kristian Lum, Shira Mitchell, and Solon Barocas, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application
TOP 10 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM 2021 PHYSICAL SCIENCE VOLUMES:
Land Use and Ecological Change: A 12,000-Year History
Erle C. Ellis, Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Algorithmic Fairness: Choices, Assumptions, and Definitions
Alexander D'Amour, Eric Potash, Kristian Lum, Shira Mitchell, and Solon Barocas, Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application
Numerical Methods for Viscoelastic Fluid Flows
F.T. Pinho, M.A. Alves, and P.J. Oliveira, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
Review of COVID-19 Antibody Therapies
Duc Duy Nguyen, Guo-Wei Wei, Jiahui Chen, Kaifu Gao, and Rui Wang, Annual Review of Biophysics
Atmospheric CO2 over the Past 66 Million Years from Marine Archives
Gavin L. Foster, Heather M. Stoll, James W.B. Rae, Ross D.M. Whiteford, Xiaoqing Liu, and Yi Ge Zhang, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Factor Graphs: Exploiting Structure in Robotics
Frank Dellaert, Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems
Ocean Optimism: Moving Beyond the Obituaries in Marine Conservation
Nancy Knowlton, Annual Review of Marine Science
Marine Heatwaves
Alex Sen Gupta, Alistair J. Hobday, Eric C.J. Oliver, Jessica A. Benthuysen, Markus G. Donat, Neil J. Holbrook, Robert W. Schlegel, and Sofia Darmaraki, Annual Review of Marine Science
Biology and Models of the Blood-Brain Barrier
Baptiste Le Roi, Ben M. Maoz, Cynthia Hajal, and Roger D. Kamm, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
Engineering Vascularized Organoid-on-a-Chip Models
Christopher C.W. Hughes, Steven C. George, and Venktesh S. Shirure, Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering
Also, check out our additional Top 10 article lists from the Social Sciences and Economics journals!
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