Taxacom: Research Gate question

[Andy Mabbett]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 at 18:39, John Grehan via Taxacom
<taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> I had a notification of 'congratulations, your article reached 800
> reads', but this is for a rather obscure taxonomic article on a single
> species that was published just earlier this year. So the quantity seems
> out of proportion to the time, although it is an open access article. Can
> anyone comment on this?

Some of your papers are cited on Wikipedia. If one of the citing
articles was listed on the home page under "What's New", or as a
featured article, it could easily get a quarter-million or more views.
800 click throughs from that would be a tiny and plausible proportion.

You may have heard of my friend, Siobhan Leachman, whc is worting lots
of new Wikipedia articles, and improving others, on New Zealand's
moths.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
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