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Research Project: Genetic Resources Acquisition, Conservation, International Exchange, and Taxonomic Expertise in Support of the U.S. National Plant Germplasm System

Location: National Germplasm Resources Laboratory

Title: By the numbers: Rhodora articles most frequently downloaded via JSTOR and BioOne

Author
item Schori, Melanie

Submitted to: Rhodora
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 1/6/2025
Publication Date: 5/20/2025
Citation: Schori, M. 2025. By the numbers: Rhodora articles most frequently downloaded via JSTOR and BioOne. Rhodora. https://doi.org/10.3119/24-23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3119/24-23

Interpretive Summary: This article summarizes the papers published in Rhodora that have been downloaded most frequently via JSTOR and BioOne, which provide access to academic institutions. The most popular articles, available through BioOne, were published in the last 10 years and deal with how climate change affects plants. Older articles are available through JSTOR, and the most popular ones cover slime molds, plants growing around Boston, MA, and eating poisonous red baneberry fruits to find out whether children would be likely to eat them and how many would be toxic. The popularity of the Boston article is puzzling because it is an installment of a longer series, and none of the other parts is consulted frequently.

Technical Abstract: Journal metrics from JSTOR (1899–2018) and BioOne (1965–2024) show that the most frequently downloaded paper is by Berend et al. (2019), Common garden experiments as a dynamic tool for ecological studies of alpine plants and communities in northeastern North America. Papers on floristic change (McDonough MacKenzie et al. 2019) and climate change (Bellemare et al. 2017) occupy the second and third slots; these top three papers had 9,277, 3,721, and 3,263 downloads, respectively, as of July 31, 2024. Slots four through six are filled by papers on slime molds (Macbride 1900), part of the flora around Boston, MA (Knowlton and Deane 1919), and the poisonous properties of red baneberry (Bacon 1903).