{"id":852,"date":"2011-08-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=852"},"modified":"2011-08-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T10:00:00","slug":"in-and-out-of-the-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2011\/08\/28\/in-and-out-of-the-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"In and out of the Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Blog had a short break, I had planned a post to celebrate my success at getting one of my papers into EER's top ten downloads chart. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/ceer20\">journal<\/a> keeps track of those of its papers that are most downloaded, and also most often cited, and I found myself with one in the top ten, and another in the top twenty. \u00a0I was over the moon, so to speak, at having such success thrust upon me. \u00a0The editor did his best to inject reality into my nascent celebrations, noting that \"download\" does not imply \"read\", and that, even if read, this does not imply \"impact\". \u00a0No matter, I thought, the top ten is the T<em>op Ten<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine my chagrin, therefore, to discover that the mere passage of a week or so had resulted in my slipping out of the top ten as the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/showMostReadArticles?journalCode=ceer20\">downloads<\/a> show. \u00a0Indeed, I am almost slipping out of the top twenty with the papers in question at 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>Success is so ephemeral, I mused to myself. \u00a0Hardly worth blogging about ... . \u00a0Except that I note that of those in the top twenty, one of my papers [\u00a0Environmental education research: 30 years on from Tbilisi \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/13504620902814804\">15(2) 2009<\/a> ]\u00a0is in the top five (well, fifth) of those cited by others in those 20. \u00a0A straw, then, definitely to clutch at.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, reading on, it seems I now also have two jointly-authored papers in EER's top ten <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/action\/showMostCitedArticles?journalCode=ceer20\">papers<\/a> cited by others, which I'm sure were not there last week. \u00a0I'm feeling better already ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Blog had a short break, I had planned a post to celebrate my success at getting one of my papers into EER's top ten downloads chart. \u00a0The journal keeps track of those of its papers that are most...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}