These Are The 10 Most Popular Scientific Papers Everyone Was Talking About in 2018

Each year the London-based data science company Altmetric releases a ranking of the 100 most popular research articles of the past 12 months – based on their analysis of “online activity around scholarly literature”.

https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2018/

10. The biomass distribution on Earth
9. Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages
8. Complementary Medicine, Refusal of Conventional Cancer Therapy, and Survival Among Patients With Curable Cancers
7. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
6. Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis
5. Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1·2 million individuals in the USA between 2011 and 2015: a cross-sectional study
4. Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
3. Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
2. The spread of true and false news online
1. Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Tau.Neutrino said:

These Are The 10 Most Popular Scientific Papers Everyone Was Talking About in 2018

Each year the London-based data science company Altmetric releases a ranking of the 100 most popular research articles of the past 12 months – based on their analysis of “online activity around scholarly literature”.

https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2018/

10. The biomass distribution on Earth
9. Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages
8. Complementary Medicine, Refusal of Conventional Cancer Therapy, and Survival Among Patients With Curable Cancers
7. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
6. Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis
5. Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1·2 million individuals in the USA between 2011 and 2015: a cross-sectional study
4. Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
3. Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
2. The spread of true and false news online
1. Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

That’s a worry.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

These Are The 10 Most Popular Scientific Papers Everyone Was Talking About in 2018

Each year the London-based data science company Altmetric releases a ranking of the 100 most popular research articles of the past 12 months – based on their analysis of “online activity around scholarly literature”.

https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2018/

10. The biomass distribution on Earth
9. Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages
8. Complementary Medicine, Refusal of Conventional Cancer Therapy, and Survival Among Patients With Curable Cancers
7. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
6. Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis
5. Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1·2 million individuals in the USA between 2011 and 2015: a cross-sectional study
4. Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
3. Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
2. The spread of true and false news online
1. Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

That’s a worry.

What’s a worry?

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

These Are The 10 Most Popular Scientific Papers Everyone Was Talking About in 2018

Each year the London-based data science company Altmetric releases a ranking of the 100 most popular research articles of the past 12 months – based on their analysis of “online activity around scholarly literature”.

https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2018/

10. The biomass distribution on Earth
9. Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages
8. Complementary Medicine, Refusal of Conventional Cancer Therapy, and Survival Among Patients With Curable Cancers
7. Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic
6. Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis
5. Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1·2 million individuals in the USA between 2011 and 2015: a cross-sectional study
4. Trajectories of the Earth System in the Anthropocene
3. Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
2. The spread of true and false news online
1. Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

That’s a worry.

What’s a worry?

Thank you Rev D. :-) You spotted that I was being deliberately ambiguous.

Is it the contents of the papers that is worrying? or the fact that they are the 10 most popular? or both?

Would you like me to write a quick summary of each?

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

That’s a worry.

What’s a worry?

Thank you Rev D. :-) You spotted that I was being deliberately ambiguous.

Is it the contents of the papers that is worrying? or the fact that they are the 10 most popular? or both?

Would you like me to write a quick summary of each?

Are there any other papers which should be in the top ten list ?

Tau.Neutrino said:

mollwollfumble said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

What’s a worry?

Thank you Rev D. :-) You spotted that I was being deliberately ambiguous.

Is it the contents of the papers that is worrying? or the fact that they are the 10 most popular? or both?

Would you like me to write a quick summary of each?

Are there any other papers which should be in the top ten list ?

Yes.

A 60 year longitudinal study of myopia. By Buffy.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

mollwollfumble said:

Thank you Rev D. :-) You spotted that I was being deliberately ambiguous.

Is it the contents of the papers that is worrying? or the fact that they are the 10 most popular? or both?

Would you like me to write a quick summary of each?

Are there any other papers which should be in the top ten list ?

Yes.

A 60 year longitudinal study of myopia. By Buffy.

So good, no one wanted to publish it ;)

poikilotherm said:

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Are there any other papers which should be in the top ten list ?

Yes.

A 60 year longitudinal study of myopia. By Buffy.

So good, no one wanted to publish it ;)

Publishers have no far ken.

Was talking to a book editor for a forthcoming book on causes of cancer for WHO.

In order to get chapters in the book at all he had to deliberately ignore most of what was said by savage peer reviewers.

poikilotherm said:

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Are there any other papers which should be in the top ten list ?

Yes.

A 60 year longitudinal study of myopia. By Buffy.

So good, no one wanted to publish it ;)

I checked recently and the medical version of bioRxiv is not yet up. I will submit to there when it comes up. And enough said about reviewers…