Celebrating Success: Cristina Neesham
Congratulations to Cristina Neesham whose article entitled AI could help us spot viruses like monkeypox before they cross over and help conserve nature, co-authored by Cristina Neesham (with Ann Borda, Andreea Molnar, and Patty Kostkova) and published in The Conversation in May 2022, has been listed in the top 5 most read articles by a Newcastle University academic each month so far this year. The reads record shows as follows:
January 2023: 4th place (5,028 reads)
February 2023: 1st place (32,043 reads)
March 2023: 2nd place (29,148 reads)
April 2023: 1st place (50,393 reads)
May 2023: 1st place (33,965 reads)
Prior to 1 December 2022, this article was read 214,000 times across the UK and internationally (India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Pakistan), making it last year’s most read piece from Newcastle University academics. It was also republished by several other widely circulated outlets such as The Mandarin, Medical Xpress, Gizmodo, Newsify and EconoTimes.