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Highly Downloaded Social Sciences Articles 2020

Which topics in the Social Sciences generated the most attention from readers in 2020?

In 2020, Annual Reviews published 16 review journals in the Social Sciences. The following list represents highly downloaded articles across the Social Sciences volumes published during the year.

Return to Most Read Articles in 2020 Collection

The Changing Cleavage Politics of Western Europe

Robert Ford and Will Jennings, Annual Review of Political Science

Remembering: An Activity of Mind and Brain

Fergus I.M. Craik, Annual Review of Psychology

Judgment and Decision Making

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

Social Media Elements, Ecologies, and Effects

Joseph B. Bayer, Penny Triệu, and Nicole B. Ellison, Annual Review of Psychology

Machine Learning in Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Research

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

Dopamine and Addiction

Roy A. Wise and Mykel A. Robble, Annual Review of Psychology

Judging Truth

Nadia M. Brashier and Elizabeth J. Marsh, Annual Review of Psychology

Depression's Unholy Trinity: Dysregulated Stress, Immunity, and the Microbiome

Joana S. Cruz-Pereira, Kieran Rea, Yvonne M. Nolan, Olivia F. O'Leary, Timothy G. Dinan, and John F. Cryan, Annual Review of Psychology

Social Media– and Internet-Based Disease Surveillance for Public Health

Allison E. Aiello, Audrey Renson and Paul N. Zivich, Annual Review of Public Health

Do Emerging Military Technologies Matter for International Politics?

Michael C. Horowitz, Annual Review of Political Science

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