
Top Downloaded Articles in 2020
2020 will always be a year we will never forget. Below you'll find 20 articles from our 51 disciplines that attracted the most attention from readers during the year.
MOST READ ECONOMICS MOST READ SOCIAL SCIENCES MOST READ PHYSICAL SCIENCES MOST READ BIOMEDICAL/LIFE SCIENCES
TOP 10 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM 2020 VOLUMES:
Economics with a Moral Compass? Welfare Economics: Past, Present, and Future
Amartya Sen, Angus Deaton, and Tim Besley, Annual Review of Economics
Statistical Mechanics of Deep Learning
Yasaman Bahri, Jonathan Kadmon, Jeffrey Pennington, Sam S. Schoenholz, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, and Surya Ganguli, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics
Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations
Briony Swire-Thompson and David Lazer, Annual Review of Public Health
Machine Learning for Fluid Mechanics
Steven L. Brunton, Bernd R. Noack, and Petros Koumoutsakos, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
Social Control Theory: The Legacy of Travis Hirschi's Causes of Delinquency
Barbara J. Costello and John H. Laub, Annual Review of Criminology
Implicit Social Cognition
Anthony G. Greenwald and Calvin K. Lai, Annual Review of Psychology
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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
Marine Microbial Assemblages on Microplastics: Diversity, Adaptation, and Role in Degradation
Sonja Oberbeckmann and Matthias Labrenz, Annual Review of Marine Science
What Do Platforms Do? Understanding the Gig Economy
Steven Vallas and Juliet B. Schor, Annual Review of Sociology
TOP 10 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES IN 2020:
Structure, Function, and Evolution of Coronavirus Spike Proteins
Fang Li, Annual Review of Virology, 2016
Parenting and its Effects on Children: On Reading and Misreading Behavior Genetics
Eleanor E. Maccoby, Annual Review of Psychology, 2000
Metabolic Effects of Intermittent Fasting
Ruth E. Patterson and Dorothy D. Sears, Annual Review of Nutrition, 2017
Gender Stereotypes
Naomi Ellemers, Annual Review of Psychology, 2018
Seasonality of Respiratory Viral Infections
Miyu Moriyama, Walter J. Hugentobler, and Akiko Iwasaki, Annual Review of Virology, 2020
Human Coronavirus: Host-Pathogen Interaction
To Sing Fung and Ding Xiang Liu, Annual Review of Microbiology, 2019
The Good That Viruses Do
Mario Mietzsch and Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Annual Review of Virology, 2017
CRISPR-Cas9 Structures and Mechanisms
Fuguo Jiang and Jennifer A. Doudna, Annual Review of Biophysics, 2017
Executive Functions
Adele Diamond, Annual Review of Psychology, 2013
Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research
David R. Williams, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, and Brigette A. Davis, Annual Review of Public Health, 2019
Also, check out our additional Top 10 article lists from the Economics, Social Sciences, and Physical Sciences journals!
MOST READ ECONOMICS MOST READ SOCIAL SCIENCES MOST READ PHYSICAL SCIENCES MOST READ BIOMEDICAL/LIFE SCIENCES
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