Most Downloaded Articles of 2016

1. Maria Avxentevskaya, “The Spiritual Optics of Narrative: John Wilkins’s popularization of Copernicanism” (JLS 8.2)

2. Kathryn Walls
, ‘The After-Lives of Vain Women in The Rape of the Lock: Pope’s Sylphs and the “Corpuscular Philosophy” of Robert Boyle’ (JLS 9.1)

3. Matthew Rowney
, ‘A Fearful Symmetry: Borges and the Geometric Language of the Brain’ (JLS 9.1)

Many congratulations to Maria, Kathryn and Matthew.

JLS Six Month Statistics

JLS contributors and readers responded enthusiastically to the publication for the first time of key statistics in June 2016. Here are our three key indicators from July 1st to December 31st 2016. (The figures in brackets are those for the previous six month period).

Views: 15,452 (13,396)

Downloads of Most Read Articles (collected): 666 (742)

Geographic Reach: JLS accessed in 98 (104) countries

Most Downloaded Articles – November to December 2016

1. Kathryn Walls
, ‘The After-Lives of Vain Women in The Rape of the Lock: Pope’s Sylphs and the “Corpuscular Philosophy” of Robert Boyle’ (JLS 9.1)

2. Matthew Rowney
, ‘A Fearful Symmetry: Borges and the Geometric Language of the Brain’ (JLS 9.1)

3. John Holmes
, ‘Algernon Swinburne, Anthropologist’(JLS 9.1)

Most Downloaded Articles – September to October 2016

1. Kathryn Walls
, ‘The After-Lives of Vain Women in The Rape of the Lock: Pope’s Sylphs and the “Corpuscular Philosophy” of Robert Boyle’ (JLS 9.1)

2. Matthew Rowney
, ‘A Fearful Symmetry: Borges and the Geometric Language of the Brain’ (JLS 9.1)

3. John Holmes
, ‘Algernon Swinburne, Anthropologist’(JLS 9.1)

Most Downloaded Articles – July to August 2016

1. Matthew Rowney
, ‘A Fearful Symmetry: Borges and the Geometric Language of the Brain’ (JLS 9.1)

2. John Holmes
, ‘Algernon Swinburne, Anthropologist’(JLS 9.1)

3. Kathryn Walls
, ‘The After-Lives of Vain Women in The Rape of the Lock: Pope’s Sylphs and the “Corpuscular Philosophy” of Robert Boyle’ (JLS 9.1)