What You Read in 2020

Looking back on 2020 includes seeing how well we have done to capture your interest with our Open Mike blog posts.  Did we hit the mark? Here we analyze page views on the Open Mike blog. Similar to what we did for 2018, below we show the top ten blog posts from 2020 based on overall page views pulled from Google Analytics. We issued 43 blogs last year on many different subjects. Posts on topics that are directly related to grant funding were the ones that were viewed the most. Rank Title Page Views 1 COVID-19 Funding and Funding Opportunities 51,295 2 COVID-19 Resources for Applicants and Recipients of NIH Funding 31,076 3 Introducing the Stephen I. Katz Early Stage Investigator Research Grant Program 24,388 4 An Early Look at Applications Submitted During the Pandemic 17,591 5 New NIH Resource to Analyze COVID-19 Literature 17,100 6 Accepting Preliminary Data as Post-Submission Material and Other COVID-19 Flexibilities 13,637 7 What’s Happening with At-Risk Investigators 12,814 8 Temporary, Emergency Situations Due to COVID-19 and Application Scores Received During Peer Review 12,250 9 Institute and Center Award Rates and Funding Disparities 11,366 10 Case Study in Review Integrity: Asking for Favorable Treatment 9,809 Not surprisingly, posts about COVID-19 were heavily read. This attention extended to our coronavirus webpages too. They received record-high web traffic with more than 650,000 views over the year—with most coming early on.  sinc...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus - Category: Research Authors: Tags: blog Open Mike coronavirus COVID-19 Source Type: funding