We are proud to present our traditional end-of-year statistics below.
Top 5 blog posts 2015 (in terms of views):
- Open Access and the Power of Editorial Boards: Why Elsevier Plays Hardball with Deviant Linguists
- Copyright, Creative Commons and other Calamities in Scientific Publishing
- Out in June: “The Political Economy of Microfinance: Financializing Poverty”
- How religious leaders may influence climate change regulation: The success of the papal encyclical Laudato Sii
- Will the Real Anonymous Please Stand Up? German Facebook Page Free Rides on #OpISIS
Top 5 search terms guiding visitors to our blog in 2015:
- lawrence lessig organizations founded
- Andhra Pradesh microfinance crisis (also #1 in 2011, 2012 & 2014, #2 in 2013)
- Methodological nationalism
- cc
- g20 2009
Top 5 countries our visitors came from in 2015 (last year’s position in brackets):
- United States (1)
- India (2)
- Germany (3)
- United Kingdom (4)
- Australia (-)
Top series in 2015:
- Excerpts from “The Political Economy of Microfinance: Financializing Poverty” (9 out of 9 posts in 2015)
- Bordercrossing Books (2/14)
- The Series Series (1/10)
In total we published 29 new posts in 2015, almost as many as in 2014 (30 posts); nevertheless, this means that we failed our new year’s resolution from last year by two posts. The number of views grew compared to last year and reached a total of 36,283. Interestingly wordpress.com introduced a distinction between “visitors” and “views” in 2012; in terms of visitors, 2015 actually has been our most successful year ever with 25,355 visitors, beating the count of 24,983 visitors in 2013.
(leonhard)
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