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Highly Downloaded Biomedical/Life Sciences Articles 2020

Which topics in the Biomedical/Life Sciences generated the most attention from readers in 2020?

In 2020, Annual Reviews published 32 review journals in the Biomedical/Life Sciences. The following list represents highly downloaded articles across the Biomedical/Life Sciences volumes published during the year.

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Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations

Briony Swire-Thompson and David Lazer, Annual Review of Public Health

Measures of Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Gender Binarism for Health Equity Research: From Structural Injustice to Embodied Harm—An Ecosocial Analysis

Nancy Krieger, Annual Review of Public Health

Social Safety Theory: A Biologically Based Evolutionary Perspective on Life Stress, Health, and Behavior

George M. Slavich, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Implicit Social Cognition

Anthony G. Greenwald and Calvin K. Lai, Annual Review of Psychology
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Marine Microbial Assemblages on Microplastics: Diversity, Adaptation, and Role in Degradation

Sonja Oberbeckmann and Matthias Labrenz, Annual Review of Marine Science

Remembering: An Activity of Mind and Brain

Fergus I.M. Craik, Annual Review of Psychology

Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants

Eva van Zelm, Yanxia Zhang, and Christa Testerink, Annual Review of Plant Biology

Judgment and Decision Making

Baruch Fischhoff and Stephen B. Broomell, Annual Review of Psychology

CD40 Agonist Antibodies in Cancer Immunotherapy

Robert H. Vonderheide, Annual Review of Medicine

Machine Learning in Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research

Timothy L. Wiemken and Robert R. Kelley, Annual Review of Public Health

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