AR BUZZ | JANUARY 2022 – Top Downloaded Articles in 2021

Throughout 2021, the world continued to be impacted by COVID-19. While scientists and public health officials rolled out vaccination programs developed in record time, ongoing problems related to racial and health inequity and the global climate crisis affected the lives of too many. Annual Reviews remains a reliable and trusted source of information. As we begin 2022, we’ve highlighted the high-impact articles from our 51 journals that attracted the most attention from readers during the year.

Annual Reviews continues to support the research community during this challenging time of world-changing events. The articles in this collection are either Open Access or are freely available to download via the links below – and always available at subscribing institutions.

TOP 10 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES FROM 2021 VOLUMES:

The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans: A Historical Overview

ELIZABETH HINTON and DEANZA COOK, Annual Review of Criminology

Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven’t We Bent the Global Emissions Curve?

ISAK STODDARD, KEVIN ANDERSON, STUART CAPSICK, WIM CARTON, JOANNA DEPLEDGE, KERI FACER, CLAIR GOUGH, FREDERIC HACHE, CLAIRE HOOLOHAN, MARTIN HULTMAN, NICLAS HÄLLSTRÖM, SIVAN KARTHA, SONJA KLINSKY, MAGDALENA KUCHLER, EVA LÖVBRAND, NAGHMEH NASIRITOUSI, PETER NEWELL, GLEN P. PETERS, YOUBA SOKONA, ANDY STIRLING, MATTHEW STILWELL, CLIVE L. SPASH, and MARIAMA WILLIAMS, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Leonardo da Vinci and Fluid Mechanics

IVAN MARUSIC and SUSAN BROOMHALL, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

Vaccine Hesitancy, Acceptance, and Anti-Vaccination: Trends and Future Prospects for Public Health

ÈVE DUBÉ, JEREMY K. WARD, PIERRE VERGER, and NONI E. MACDONALD, Annual Review of Public Health

The Causes and Consequences of Urban Riot and Unrest

TIM NEWBURN, Annual Review of Criminology

Nationalism: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know

HARRIS MYLONAS and MAYA TUDOR, Annual Review of Political Sciences

Early Childhood Adversity, Toxic Stress, and the Impacts of Racism on the Foundations of Health

JACK P. SHONKOFF, NATALIE SLOPEN, and DAVID R.WILLIAMS, Annual Review of Public Health

Dendritic Cells Revisited

MAR CABEZA-CABRERIZO, ANA CARDOSO,CARLOS M. MINUTTI, MARIANA PEREIRA DA COSTA, and CAETANO REIS E SOUSAAnnual Review of Clinical Immunology

The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission

LYDIA BOUROUIBA, Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics

The History of Microbiology – A Personal Interpretation

ROBERTO KOLTER, Annual Review of Microbiology

TOP 10 DOWNLOADED ARTICLES IN 2021:

Weird Animals, Sex, and Genome Evolution

JENNIFER A. MARSHALL GRAVES, Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

Parenting and its Effects on Children: On Reading and Misreading Behavior Genetics

ELEANOR E. MACCOBY, Annual Review of Psychology

Metabolic Effects of Intermittent Fasting

RUTH E. PATTERSON and DOROTHY D. SEARS, Annual Review of Nutrition

Structure, Function, and Evolution of Coronavirus Spike Proteins

FANG LI, Annual Review of Virology

The Growing Impact of Globalization for Health and Public Health Practice

RONALD LABONTÉ, KATIA MOHINDRA, and TED SCHRECKER, Annual Review of Public Health

Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media

EKATERINA ZHURASKAYA, MARIA PETROVA, and RUBEN ENIKOLOPOV, Annual Review of Economics

Emotion and Decision Making

JENNIFER S. LERNER, YE LI, PIERCARLO VALDESOLO, and KARIM S. KASSAM, Annual Review of Psychology

The Roots of Gender Inequality in Developing Countries

SEEMA JAYACHANDRAN, Annual Review of Economics

Human–Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence

PHILIP J. NYHUS, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Executive Functions

ADELE DIAMOND, Annual Review of Psychology


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Annual Reviews is a nonprofit publisher with a mission to synthesize and integrate knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society. We currently publish 51 highly-cited journals in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences, including Economics.