October 10, 2020

Exciting statistics regarding our special issue of IJSLP on Communication Rights

I have just recieved the following exciting statistics from Melody Harris at Taylor & Francis regarding our special issue of the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology (IJSLP) on Communication Rights (Volume 20, no 1, 2018):

...the number of downloads your issue received were extremely high when compared to regular issues of both the International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and a standard issue of other Taylor & Francis audiology journals. I have included the numbers for your special issue below:

  • Downloads of 20(1) in 2018: 49,500 (for reference the next highest downloaded issue in the journal received 15,569 downloads) 
  • Downloads of 20(1) in 2019: 63,637 (the next highest downloaded issue in the journal received 14,363 downloads) 
  • Downloads of 20(1) in 2020 YTD: 53,087 ( the next highest downloaded issue in the journal received 12,397 downloads)

 Communication Rights was viewed 168,911 times (2/10/20) and my lead article, “Communication Rights: Fundamental human rights for all” (McLeod, 2018) had 16,855 views and the top Altmetric score of 170 for IJSLP in 2019.