SOAS Research Online March 2021 highlights Downloads for March 2021: 91,894 Total downloads: 4,505,093 New items added: 60 New items with immediate full-text: 22 Most downloaded article McCaskie, Tom (2007) ‘Denkyira in the Making of Asante c. 1660-1720.’ The Journal of African History, 48 (1). pp. 1-25. Downloaded 315 times in March Recent thesis of note Janarthanan, Dhivya (2019) The country near the city : social space and dominance in Tamil Nadu. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030970 This 2019 thesis has already attracted 306 full-text downloads from
February Highlights from SOAS Research Online
SOAS Research Online February 2021 highlights Downloads for February 2021: 74,188 Total downloads: 4,401,670 New items added: 89 New items with immediate full-text: 28 Most downloaded article Craven, Matthew (2005) ‘What Happened to Unequal Treaties? The Continuities of Informal Empire.’ Nordic Journal of International Law, 74. pp. 335-382. Downloaded 416 times in February Recent thesis of note Janarthanan, Dhivya (2019) The country near the city : social space and dominance in Tamil Nadu. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030970 This 2019 thesis has already attracted 290 full-text downloads
January Highlights from SOAS Research Online
SOAS Research Online January 2021 highlights Downloads for January 2021: 87,154 Total downloads: 4,327,514 New items added: 114 New items with immediate full-text: 40 Most downloaded article Charney, Michael W. (2016) ‘Before and After the Wheel: Precolonial and Colonial States and Transportation in Mainland Southeast Asia and West Africa.’ HumaNetten, 37. pp. 9-38 Downloaded 283 times in January Recent thesis of note Loureiro, Pedro Mendes (2019) The ebb and flow of the pink tide : reformist development strategies in Brazil and Argentina. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030291 This 2019 thesis
December Highlights from SOAS Research Online
SOAS Research Online December 2020 highlights Downloads for December 2020: 102,431 Total downloads: 4,241,010 New items added: 164 New items with immediate full-text: 76 Most downloaded article Sinha, Subir and Varma, Rashmi (2015) ‘Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: Whats Left of the Debate?’ Critical Sociology, 43 (4-5). pp. 545-558 Downloaded 212 times in December Recent thesis of note Turner, Lewis Edward (2018) Challenging refugee men: humanitarianism and masculinities in Za’tari refugee camp. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030291 This 2018 thesis has already attracted 459 full-text downloads from 44 countries Highest Altmetric score
November Highlights from SOAS Research Online
SOAS Research Online November 2020 highlights Downloads for November 2020: 95,382 Total downloads: 4,187,746 New items added: 93 New items with immediate full-text: 59 Most downloaded article Abdel-Haleem, Muhammad (1992) ‘Grammatical Shift for Rhetorical Purposes: Iltifāt and Related Features in the Qur’ān.’ Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 55 (3) Downloaded 359 times in November Recent thesis of note Pearcey, Adam Scott (2018) A greater perfection? : scholasticism, comparativism and issues of sectarian identity in early 20th century writings on rDzogs-chen. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030261
October Highlights from SOAS Research Online
SOAS Research Online October 2020 highlights Downloads for October 2020: 82,727 Total downloads: 4,061,909 New items added: 55 New items with immediate full-text: 21 Added full-text of 598 legacy SOAS theses Most downloaded article Banaji, Jairus (2007) ‘Islam, the Mediterranean and the Rise of Capitalism.’ Historical Materialism, 15 (1) Downloaded 184 times in October Recent thesis of note Michalko, Jan (2019) Female political elites as an empowerment resource : an exploration of the ‘role model effect’ in South Africa. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030982 This
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October 19-25 2020 is Open Access Week – a chance to learn about the benefits of Open Access and inspire wider participation to help Open Access become the new norm in scholarship and research. Most people believe Open Access to be a positive movement, but a vocal minority have criticised it for allowing predatory publishers to flourish. Legitimate Open Access publishers generally charge fees to authors, but still stick to ethical publishing practices. The predatory publishing market is defined as “an
September Highlights from SOAS Research Online
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/25576/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31852/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30987/ http://lead-journal.org/current_issue.htm September Highlights from SOAS Research Online (Text-only version) Download statistics 68,138 downloads in September 2020 total downloads from 234 countries and dependencies. Most downloaded authors in September 2020 George, Andrew : 1,503 downloads Khan, Mushtaq : 1,464 downloads Volz, Ulrich : 822 downloads Hill, Nathan W. : 593 downloads Tanner, Thomas : 537 downloads Flügel, Peter : 500 downloads Fine, Ben : 471 downloads Orsini, Francesca : 447 downloads McKinley, Terry : 445 downloads Craven, Matthew : 428 downloads 1.Most downloaded journal article in September… McKinley, Terry (2013) The Social Protection Index: Assessing Results for
August highlights from SOAS Research Online
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/26408/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32996/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30286/ https://core.ac.uk/ https://unpaywall.org/ https://openaccessbutton.org/ August Highlights from SOAS Research Online (Text-only version) Download statistics 64,559 downloads in August 2020 – this is an 9% increase from August 2019 3,923,031 total downloads from 234 countries and dependencies. Most downloaded authors in August 2020 Khan, Mushtaq : 1,454 downloads George, Andrew : 1,137 downloads Volz, Ulrich : 673 downloads Fine, Ben : 527 downloads Craven, Matthew : 509 downloads Hill, Nathan W. : 506 downloads Flügel, Peter : 439 downloads Osella, Caroline : 434 downloads Tanner, Thomas : 434 downloads Onyema, Emilia :
July Highlights from SOAS Research Online
https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29491/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33159/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/30897/ https://www.soas.ac.uk/doctoralschool/rsa/journalofgraduateresearch/edition-12/ July Highlights from SOAS Research Online (Text-only version) Download statistics 63,808 downloads in July 2020 – this is an 22% increase from July 2019 3,847,844 total downloads from 234 countries and dependencies. Most downloaded authors in July 2020 Khan, Mushtaq : 1,432 downloads George, Andrew : 1,200 downloads Volz, Ulrich : 652 downloads Onyema, Emilia : 601 downloads Hill, Nathan W. : 574 downloads Fine, Ben : 483 downloads Flügel, Peter : 471 downloads Osella, Caroline : 411 downloads Tudor, Alyosxa: 407 downloads Schwarz, Gary: 375 downloads 1.Most downloaded item in July: Hassaan,