By the Numbers: Rhodora Articles Most Frequently Downloaded Via Jstor and Bioone

Rhodora journal metrics from JSTOR (issue availability for 1899–2018) and BioOne (2005–2024) 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 9227, 3721, and 3263 downloads, respectively, as of July 31, 2024. Positions four through seven are filled by papers on slime molds (Macbride 1900), changes in alpine flora (Robinson et al. 2010), part of the flora around Boston, Massachusetts (Knowlton and Deane 1919), and the poisonous properties of Actaea spicata (Bacon 1903). Papers on Acer platanoides (Webb et al. 2000), Toxicodendron (Gillis 1971), Nuphar (Padgett 2007), serpentine geoecology (Rajakaruna et al. 2009), Prunella vulgaris (Fernald 1913), and specimen collection (Sullivan and Nazaire 2021) round out the top 10 by platform, for a combined top 13.