Happy New Year to all our readers! 2022 was a busy year for us on the blog, probably our busiest year yet. We probably published more posts last year than in any previous year. We typically try to keep posts to no more than one a day but last year we had periods where we were publishing two posts a day and sometimes three! As you would imagine the busiest period was just after the Russian invasion of Ukraine but overall there has been lots of activity on the blog throughout the year. Although we don’t keep statistics on the submissions we receive, it seems to me that the number of submissions we received far outstripped those in previous years. The blog has been going since the end of 2008 and in the early years much of our job as editors was to write posts for the blog, and to solicit for others to write for us. Today, it is a very different job, with most of our time taken up reviewing the daily stream of submissions that come in. We are very grateful to you for continuing to send us your materials.
You will find below the posts that were most read on the blog in 2022. I should be clear that these are the posts that most attracted the attention of our readers (not necessarily a reflection of posts published in the year as a whole). The make-up of the list of top 20 most read posts of 2022 is very different from previous years. Typically, there is diversity in the topics that you – the readers – have found to be of interest in the year. However, in 2022, like 2020 (where the list was dominated by COVID related posts) one thing has grabbed attention this year – the Russia – Ukraine war! Only one post in that list does not relate to that topic. Also, it will often be the case that some (or even a good number) of the posts on the list of most read posts in a particular year were published in previous year. Unusually, all of the most popular posts read in 2022 were published in that year. In fact, the vast majority were written in February and March, the immediate days and weeks after the invasion of Ukraine (and in one case just prior to the invasion). The top 5 posts were all written by Marko and Rebecca Barber who provided incredibly timely analysis of the various legal issues emerging from the war. I am grateful to them and to all the other authors for speedy but elegant work. I also take this opportunity remind readers of the episode of EJIL:The Podcast! – From Russia with War that we put out at that time.
Our readership has also remained high and, according to Google Analytics, we are consulted by tens of thousands of unique browsers each week and close to 2 million in the year. It is of particular interest to me to note where we are being read, by which I mean the location of our readership. When one looks at the top 10 countries where our readers in 2022 are located, most of them are western, with the US, UK, the Netherlands and Germany being the top four locations. However, India is no 5 and China no. 6. Readership in China has skyrocketed over the past few years and is now about six times higher than it was just five years ago. Other non-western countries in the top 25 include Philippines (no, 12), Japan (no. 15), Turkey (no. 16), Russia (no. 20), Singapore (no. 21), South Africa (no. 22), and Indonesia (no. 23).
Thank you for sticking with us in 2022 and we look forward to many more engagements with you in 2023.
Happy New Year for 2023 and our Most Read Posts of 2022
Written by Dapo AkandeHappy New Year to all our readers! 2022 was a busy year for us on the blog, probably our busiest year yet. We probably published more posts last year than in any previous year. We typically try to keep posts to no more than one a day but last year we had periods where we were publishing two posts a day and sometimes three! As you would imagine the busiest period was just after the Russian invasion of Ukraine but overall there has been lots of activity on the blog throughout the year. Although we don’t keep statistics on the submissions we receive, it seems to me that the number of submissions we received far outstripped those in previous years. The blog has been going since the end of 2008 and in the early years much of our job as editors was to write posts for the blog, and to solicit for others to write for us. Today, it is a very different job, with most of our time taken up reviewing the daily stream of submissions that come in. We are very grateful to you for continuing to send us your materials.
You will find below the posts that were most read on the blog in 2022. I should be clear that these are the posts that most attracted the attention of our readers (not necessarily a reflection of posts published in the year as a whole). The make-up of the list of top 20 most read posts of 2022 is very different from previous years. Typically, there is diversity in the topics that you – the readers – have found to be of interest in the year. However, in 2022, like 2020 (where the list was dominated by COVID related posts) one thing has grabbed attention this year – the Russia – Ukraine war! Only one post in that list does not relate to that topic. Also, it will often be the case that some (or even a good number) of the posts on the list of most read posts in a particular year were published in previous year. Unusually, all of the most popular posts read in 2022 were published in that year. In fact, the vast majority were written in February and March, the immediate days and weeks after the invasion of Ukraine (and in one case just prior to the invasion). The top 5 posts were all written by Marko and Rebecca Barber who provided incredibly timely analysis of the various legal issues emerging from the war. I am grateful to them and to all the other authors for speedy but elegant work. I also take this opportunity remind readers of the episode of EJIL:The Podcast! – From Russia with War that we put out at that time.
Our readership has also remained high and, according to Google Analytics, we are consulted by tens of thousands of unique browsers each week and close to 2 million in the year. It is of particular interest to me to note where we are being read, by which I mean the location of our readership. When one looks at the top 10 countries where our readers in 2022 are located, most of them are western, with the US, UK, the Netherlands and Germany being the top four locations. However, India is no 5 and China no. 6. Readership in China has skyrocketed over the past few years and is now about six times higher than it was just five years ago. Other non-western countries in the top 25 include Philippines (no, 12), Japan (no. 15), Turkey (no. 16), Russia (no. 20), Singapore (no. 21), South Africa (no. 22), and Indonesia (no. 23).
Thank you for sticking with us in 2022 and we look forward to many more engagements with you in 2023.
Now for those top 20 posts:
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