March Highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|April 18, 2021

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

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January Highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|February 21, 2021

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

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December Highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|January 11, 2021

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

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November Highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|December 15, 2020

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

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October Highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|November 11, 2020

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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September Highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|October 12, 2020

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

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August highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|September 18, 2020

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 :

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June Highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|July 10, 2020

https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29491 https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31345/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32204/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32973/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/33015/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32338/ June Highlights from SOAS Research Online (Text-only version) Download statistics 60,459 downloads in June 2020 – this is an 18% increase from May 2019 3,777,257 total downloads from 234 countries and dependencies. Most downloaded authors in June 2020 Khan, Mushtaq : 1,482 downloads George, Andrew : 1,107 downloads Hutt, Michael : 903 downloads Hill, Nathan W. : 572 downloads Mezzadri, Alessandra : 550 downloads Volz, Ulrich : 539 downloads Fine, Ben : 521 downloads Flügel, Peter : 429 downloads Dorward, Andrew : 410 downloads Craven, Matthew : 408 downloads 1.Most downloaded

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SOAS Open Access Policy

By Anisha Ahmed|June 25, 2020

The Scholarly Communications team has launched the brand new SOAS Open Access Policy. The updated policy is in line with the Decolonising SOAS Vision and its commitment to redress barriers to knowledge, encourage public engagement and promote research ethics and best practice. The new policy sets out the responsibilities of SOAS researchers, such as providing publication details and depositing their research in the repository, SOAS Research Online. The policy includes definitions of key open access terms, clarifies institutional responsibilities, and

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April Highlights from SOAS Research Online

By Eileen Crawley|May 14, 2020

  https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29491/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31564/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32203/ https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32520/ April Highlights from SOAS Research Online (Text-only version) Download statistics 63,945 downloads in April 2020 – this is an 8% increase from April 2019.  3,661,469 total downloads from 234 countries and dependencies. Most downloaded authors in April 2020 Khan, Mushtaq : 1711 downloads George, Andrew : 1504 downloads Fine, Ben : 616 downloads Craven, Matthew : 582 downloads Al-Ali, Nadje : 568 downloads Volz, Ulrich : 517 downloads Hill, Nathan W. : 507 downloads Flügel, Peter : 476 downloads Abosag, Ibrahim : 460 downloads Hintze,

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