Snapshot of VPHA reading progress - 62% completed

The latest weeks has showed nice increase in the reading progress of Virtual Project on the History of ALD (VPHA). At the moment, 62% of the target reading & commenting is done. In total 66 persons from 18 countries in three continents have participated in the work. More volunteers are still welcome as there is still work to do (38%). For example, there are 29 publications listed without any comments yet.

Hopefully we will get further growth in the comments in the next days, as we have wished to get comments by June 8 for the 2nd round of papers distributed for reading. This will give everyone a week of time to think of their vote for the conclusive recommended reading list of early ALD publications for VPHA's poster presentation at ALD 2016.

Please see below a visual snapshot of the reading progress of VPHA as of June 6, 2016.  Previous similar snapshot was made on May 14th. Comparison of the graphs shows nicely how progress is taking place---thank you to all volunteers who make this happen!

Snapshot of VPHA progress (53% completed)

About a month ago, VPHA entered a new phase as we started actively distributing early ALD publications for reading. This activity has significantly accelerated the progress of VPHA; thank you to everyone who has participated in the work.

The graphs below show a snapshot of the VPHA author and reading situation taken May 14th. Comparison to the previous snapshots from May 5 (for authors) and April 28 (for reading) shows that good progress is taking place.

• At this moment, the total completion status is 53%. The crossover point, where the #comments received became larger than #comments needed, corresponding to >50% reading completion status, was on May 10, 2016.  
• The current number of co-authors is 63. Co-authors come from 18 countries in three continents: Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Russia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States. 
• Work is not finished; for example, there still 59 publications in the ALD-history-evolving-file without any comments. 

VPHA progresses and the numbers change quickly. More volunteers are still welcome to join VPHA. It would be nice to say in a future update that we have four, or even five continents involved --- how about e.g. Brazil or Australia?