The 20 Most-Read Articles of 2024

Each year, thousands of scholars dig into the Hopkins Press journals library using Project MUSE, and at the end of the year, we're always eager to see which articles garnered the most readers. With more than 110 academic journals on our roster, the span of topics is broad, including examinations of Plutarch and Hegel, analysis of Bong Joon-Ho's Parasite and Frank Herbert's Dune, and timely questions about "Adaptive Political Economy" and "Who Decides What Is Democratic?" 

This year's Top 20 includes newer articles like Jeffrey S. Flier's account of the early history of GLP-1 pharmaceuticals from Perspectives in Biology and Medicine and Blanca Missé and James Martel's call "For Democratic Governance of Universities: The Case for Administrative Abolition" in Theory & Event, as well as older — yet timely — pieces like Kristy Wilson Bowers's 2007 examination into "Balancing Individual and Communal Needs: Plague and Public Health in Early Modern Seville" from Bulletin of the History of Medicine and Koritha Mitchell's groundbreaking "Identifying White Mediocrity and Know-Your-Place Aggression: A Form of Self-Care," from the Winter 2018 issue of African American Review.

Some articles did so well that we invited the authors to join us for episodes of the Hopkins Press Podcast, including Gabriela Lee — whose Children's Literature Association Quarterly article "When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: Reading Cinderella as Colonial Children's Literature in the Philippines" went viral on social media — and the research team "Exploring Undergraduate Research Experiences for Latinx College Students From Farmworker Families" in Journal of College Student Development.

The 2024 Top 20 will be free to read on Project MUSE through 1 February 2025.