It’s Easter Sunday as I type this, but the celebration is about the performance of my essays. Whilst the metric to consider is the number of citations, I need to be satisfied with the number of downloads for now. This will be a short post, so I can focus elsewhere, but I’ve been wanting to share these numbers for about a week, when I noticed I had hit 5K downloads.

I post my essays on two platforms, Zenodo and PhilPapers. I consider the latter to be more important. They may be syndicated elsewhere, but I don’t track these platforms. They should all resolve to Zenodo.

Altogether, my essays have been downloaded over 5,000 times (5.484).

On PhilPapers, the most popular essay with 509 downloads is Objectivity Is Illusion: An Operating Model of Social and Moral Reasoning, which also makes it the most popular across both platforms, at 585. That’s about 10 per cent of all of them, if you’re counting.

On Zenodo, the favourite appears to be Rational Ghosts: Why Enlightenment Democracy Was Built to Fail, at 132.

Were I to pick a personal favourite, I’d choose The Mediated Encounter Ontology of the World: A Relational Metaphysics Beyond Mind and World, though that has been significantly clarified, expanded, and extended in my monograph, The Architecture of Encounter: A Mediated Encounter Ontology.

NB: Downloading from both platforms is free, and documents can be viewed on Zenodo without downloading. In fact, there have been 3.574 views as of today, many of which have been downloaded. Coincidentally, the number of Zenodo platform downloads is 1066. If not for the date reference, I wouldn’t have even noted it. My next goal is to reach 5000 on PhilPapers. I’m at 4418, so hopefully soon.