En el dos por ciento

Veo que sigo subiendo en el ranking del Social Science Research Network, uno de los dos o tres repositorios académicos más importantes del mundo. Tengo allí publicados 110 artículos, y a fecha de hoy, dice la web que mi

Author Rank is 3,855 out of 196,728

—lo cual quiere decir que acabo de situarme en el dos por ciento superior del ránking.  "Bieeeen". De algo se tiene que alegrar uno, aunque sea de estar en el puesto tres mil ochocientos de algo.

Y alguno de mis artículos se van leyendo: en concreto hoy veo que tengo dos artículos sobre Ian McEwan en el Top Ten de Literatura Inglesa Contemporánea. Cierto que en mi área no está la cosa muy reñida—y aún no me he encontrado a otro español por allí. In a lonely world we wander. Me pregunto qué repositorio utilizan más mis colegas, visto que en el de nuestra Universidad también soy yo el usuario número uno con diferencia. Hmm... quizá.... ¿ninguno?

También tengo hoy otra docena de tops ten igualmente modestos que me anuncian que

- Your paper, "TECHNOLOGIES OF TEMPORAL MANIPULATION", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: PRN: Philosophy of Perception (Topic).
- Your paper, "WILLIAM GIBSON'S PATTERN RECOGNITION: JET-LAGGED INTIMATIONS OF THE PRESENT", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: LIT: Contemporary American Literature (Topic).
- Your paper, "REVIEW OF DEREK BICKERTON'S ADAM'S TONGUE", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: PRN: Philosophy of Linguistics (Topic).
- Your paper, "'SILENCE ONCE BROKEN': METALANGUAGE AND NARRATIVE CLOSURE IN BECKETT", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: LIT: Other English & Commonwealth Literature (Topic).
- Your paper, "'UNNULLABLE LEAST': BECKETT'S MINIMALISM AND METAFICTION IN THE 80S", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: LIT: Other English & Commonwealth Literature (Topic).
- Your paper, "ADAPTATION, APPROPRIATION, RETROACTION: SYMBOLIC INTERACTION WITH HENRY V", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: CSN: Film (Sub-Topic).
- Your paper, "SPEECH ACT THEORY AND THE CONCEPT OF INTENTION IN LITERARY CRITICISM", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: CSN: Literature (Sub-Topic).
- Your paper, "INTERTEXTUALITY AND EXOTICISM IN SALMAN RUSHDIE'S THE MOOR'S LAST SIGH", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: LIT: Post-Colonial Literature (Topic).
- Your paper, "REVIEW OF 'CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION: THE CHILPA PROJECT'", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: Children's Literature eJournal.
- Your paper, "REVIEW OF 'HOW TO SHOW THINGS WITH WORDS' (CÓMO MOSTRAR COSAS CON PALABRAS) (SPANISH)", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: PRN: Semantics (Topic).
- Your paper, "INTERNALIZED INTERACTION: THE SPECULAR DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE AND THE SYMBOLIC ORDER", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: RCRN: Rhetorical Identity & Identification (Topic).
- Your paper, "OUT OF CHARACTER: NARRATOLOGY OF THE SUBJECT AND PERSONAL LIFE STORIES", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: RCRN: Psychological Aspects of Rhetoric (Topic).
- Your paper, "'IT'S STORIES STILL': REFLEXIVITY IN SAMUEL BECKETT'S NARRATIVE", was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list for: LIT: Other English & Commonwealth Literature (Topic).

Estoy en muchas salsas, ahora veo por qué he decidido titular a mi blog de este mes Polygraph, y no es mentira. Esta lluvia fina de top tens debe ser el regalo de cumpleaños del cíborg. En fin, cuanto más tiempo pasa, más se van leyendo los escritos de uno. Más o menos.

 

 

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PS, 2022: 

A fecha de diez años más tarde,

Jose Angel Garcia Landa Author Rank is 1,147 out of 879,382

Que es cerca del Top 0,1 %.

Seguimos subiendo hacia nuestra asíntota.

 

 

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