Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal
Parent: UC Santa Cruz
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for April through July, 2026
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0qk2z1c2 | Refract Journal, Volume 2: "Translation" | 2,392 | 1,816 | 576 | 75.9% |
| 9ps74313 | Sensing Place | 2,083 | 2,002 | 81 | 96.1% |
| 15h4c86z | Refract Journal, Issue 1: "Refraction" | 1,907 | 1,585 | 322 | 83.1% |
| 24r1z37d | Refract Journal, Volume 4: Document/ary Full Issue | 1,772 | 1,720 | 52 | 97.1% |
| 39w6b0hx | Refract Journal, Volume 3: Hauntings and Traces Full Issue | 1,612 | 1,533 | 79 | 95.1% |
| 8z75g1k7 | Imagining the Future of Digital Publishing | 1,271 | 1,202 | 69 | 94.6% |
| 9n15q89f | The Face of an Empire: Cosmetics and Whiteness in Imperial Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I | 797 | 174 | 623 | 21.8% |
| 2r4924w1 | Land, Water, Explorer: Place-Making “America” in the Early Modern Period | 695 | 485 | 210 | 69.8% |
| 3z87h5q9 | Strange Weather Forecast: Inside Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History’s New Exhibit | 589 | 542 | 47 | 92.0% |
| 3rb6n5q7 | BLAST RADIUS: No. 4 in a Series of Data Humanization Performances | 559 | 56 | 503 | 10.0% |
| 4q20b7qq | Synthesizing a Dual-Definition of Façade in the Western Palaces of the Yuanming Yuan: Art, Politics, and Place-making in the Garden of Perfect Brightness | 509 | 387 | 122 | 76.0% |
| 6j606941 | Halophilic | 502 | 405 | 97 | 80.7% |
| 0jz4t1c3 | Memory Matter(s) | 491 | 375 | 116 | 76.4% |
| 1n63968d | Public Displays of Affection | 477 | 396 | 81 | 83.0% |
| 316544kf | Review of An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain | 469 | 391 | 78 | 83.4% |
| 5w56c6n3 | Trans Self-Imaging Praxis, Decolonizing Photography, and the Work of Alok Vaid-Menon | 452 | 117 | 335 | 25.9% |
| 1z0340v4 | Mere Image: Caravaggio, Virtuosity, and Medusa’s Averted Eyes | 447 | 222 | 225 | 49.7% |
| 0p507033 | Denis Diderot’s “Salons” as Art Conservation in Eighteenth-Century France | 403 | 184 | 219 | 45.7% |
| 7s96s6kb | “If You’re Out There, Please Listen to Me…”: Voices of Mourning Through the Wind Phone (Kaze no Denwa) | 372 | 90 | 282 | 24.2% |
| 71s0p8nf | Lupine Sensibilities: Dynamically Embodied Intersubjectivity between Humans and Refugee Wolves | 362 | 133 | 229 | 36.7% |
| 94q869s6 | (Un)veiling Sappho: Renée Vivien and Natalie Clifford Barney’s Radical Translation Projects | 347 | 73 | 274 | 21.0% |
| 9w11p9st | Photogrammetry and Zhongshan Pavilion: Reconstructing Urban Memory of the Wenxi Fire | 339 | 53 | 286 | 15.6% |
| 4dv7j9tv | Maurice Denis (1870–1943) and the Sacred Grove: Temporality in Fin de Siècle France | 324 | 146 | 178 | 45.1% |
| 9tt733sc | The Double Edge of Visibility and Invisibility: Cassils and Queer Exhaustion | 316 | 187 | 129 | 59.2% |
| 6d00j8md | Olympic-Scale Subversion: Poster Art, Architecture, Performance, and the Afterlives of Mexico 1968 | 302 | 67 | 235 | 22.2% |
| 1gb5592r | Interview with Boreth Ly on Her New Book, Traces of Trauma | 296 | 83 | 213 | 28.0% |
| 6cd60127 | Daisy Bell | 267 | 61 | 206 | 22.8% |
| 2r58110h | The Trophy and The Appeal: Colonial Photography and the Ghosts of Witnessing in German Southwest Africa | 263 | 64 | 199 | 24.3% |
| 97z5x16t | “Tool of Enlightenment”: The Dreamachine’s Effects for Individual Autonomy | 262 | 82 | 180 | 31.3% |
| 50g5j00d | Images, Copyright, and the Future of Digital Publishing in the Arts | 254 | 64 | 190 | 25.2% |
| 5jn548z0 | Thinking of Water as a Material Witness: An Attempt to Fill the Voids in the Archive of the Moscow Canal (1932–37) | 246 | 136 | 110 | 55.3% |
| 9ps0d7z3 | From a Native Daughter: Seeking Home and Ancestral Lines through a Dashboard Hula Girl | 246 | 191 | 55 | 77.6% |
| 697345pn | Power Geometry in Urban Memory: Reading Taksim Square Through the Concept of Representation of Space | 245 | 63 | 182 | 25.7% |
| 5r76v48z | I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies: Curatorial Statement | 240 | 83 | 157 | 34.6% |
| 8g38v41w | The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting: Afterlife and Memorialization of Imagery Surrounding South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | 232 | 69 | 163 | 29.7% |
| 0288q432 | Glimmers of Digital Publishing Innovation | 227 | 68 | 159 | 30.0% |
| 3d78r1db | The Somatic and Textural Language of Patricia Belli: Recrafting Social and Political Bodies in 1990s Nicaragua | 212 | 90 | 122 | 42.5% |
| 7wt7z8mx | Douce Mélancholie: Sonic Negotiations of Absence in the Works of Susan Philipsz and Félicia Atkinson | 212 | 134 | 78 | 63.2% |
| 4259n982 | What is Radical Writing in Visual Studies? | 206 | 84 | 122 | 40.8% |
| 7wf111p2 | Peer Review Models, Publication Types, Open Access, and the Future | 198 | 52 | 146 | 26.3% |
| 0581030r | Strategies of Il/legibility: Lorraine O’Grady, Gayatri Spivak, and Visual Decipherment | 195 | 82 | 113 | 42.1% |
| 7xm6v7j2 | My Love to Be Defused: Beginnings of an Ethics of Belonging through Negotiations of a National Socialist Image in Daily Life, from Infancy to Adulthood (Excerpts from Diaries Now Titled, The Responsibility of Being That Sort of Baby, March 24–July 25, 20 | 194 | 82 | 112 | 42.3% |
| 2tx4j89p | A Catalog of American Things | 188 | 49 | 139 | 26.1% |
| 1n22g022 | The Heat is On | 187 | 69 | 118 | 36.9% |
| 78x622wh | The Televised Apocalypse | 183 | 57 | 126 | 31.1% |
| 73x8c0xw | Tito/Tata: Fiction and Factuality in Documentary Photographs of the Father Figure in Communist Yugoslavia | 178 | 68 | 110 | 38.2% |
| 51v5j2xh | It's Like She Had Never Existed: The Family Story and the Assembly of Disability | 177 | 51 | 126 | 28.8% |
| 8k61f03t | Beyond Borders and Biology: Lisa Myeong-Joo’s Self-Portrait of a Circle (2016) | 177 | 58 | 119 | 32.8% |
| 8vc716rq | Visualizing Banaba: Art and Research about a Diffracted Pacific Island | 176 | 59 | 117 | 33.5% |
| 26t834v1 | Harun Farocki, Serious Games III (Immersion) (Review) | 175 | 65 | 110 | 37.1% |
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