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Highly Downloaded Social Sciences and Economics Articles 2021

Which topics from our Social Sciences and Economics collections generated the most attention from readers in 2021?

In 2021, Annual Reviews published 19 journals in our Social Science and Economics 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 SOCIAL 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

The Backlash Against Globalization

Stefanie Walter, Annual Review of Political Science

Active Forgetting: Adaptation of Memory by Prefrontal Control

Justin C. Hulbert and Michael C. Anderson, Annual Review of Psychology

The Causes of Populism in the West

Sheri Berman, Annual Review of Political Science

Machine Learning for Social Science: An Agnostic Approach

Brandon M. Stewart, Justin Grimmer, and Margaret E. Roberts, Annual Review of Political Science

Climate Change Disinformation and How to Combat It

Stephan Lewandowsky, Annual Review of Public Health

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

Land Use and Ecological Change: A 12,000-Year History

Erle C. Ellis, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

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

TOP 10 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM 2021 ECONOMICS VOLUMES:

Emmanuel Farhi, Economist Par Excellence

Jean Tirole, Annual Review of Economics

Why Does Globalization Fuel Populism? Economics, Culture, and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism

Dani Rodrik, Annual Review of Economics

The Political Economy of the Resource Curse: A Development Perspective

Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen, Annual Review of Resource Economics

The Rise of Digital Money

Tobias Adrian and Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Annual Review of Financial Economics

Food Systems for Human and Planetary Health: Economic Perspectives and Challenges

Christopher Rue, Derek Headey, Shenggen Fan, and Timothy Thomas, Annual Review of Resource Economics

Climate Finance

Bryan Kelly, Johannes Stroebel, and Stefano Giglio, Annual Review of Financial Economics

The Contributions of Stephen A. Ross to Financial Economics

Jonathan E. Ingersoll, Philip H. Dybvig, Stephen J. Brown, and William N. Goetzmann, Annual Review of Financial Economics

The Political Economy of Deep Integration

Giovanni Maggi and Ralph Ossa, Annual Review of Economics

The Capitalization of Agricultural Subsidies into Land Prices

Pavel Ciaian, Edoardo Baldoni, d'Artis Kancs, and Dušan Drabik, Annual Review of Resource Economics

What Shapes the Quality and Behavior of Government Officials? Institutional Variation in Selection and Retention Methods

Claire S.H. Lim and James M. Snyder, Annual Review of Economics


Also, check out our additional Top 10 article lists from the Biomedical/Life and Physical Sciences journals!


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