The year is almost over, and for anyone interested in medical research, it always interesting to know how the major publishing players are doing.
The bar is set by PubMed who indexes the world's medical research. At least for those 10,000 publishers who are allowed in. This is of course is a larger set than the 5,000 Medline publishers who hold a higher rank of sorts in PubMed.
It takes a fair amount of effort to compile the numbers and it gets somewhat confusing as it relates to Medline articles and the 6-month lag or more etc. But I did a first pass over the Thanksgiving holidays for 2020 and the 10,680 publishers in PubMed (Jan-Nov26). I then took the top 20 and looked at the numbers for the last few years; the chart below shows the data. FYI, the ranking is based on create date, the numbers below for the chart are publishing date, so there is some variance due to publishing lags or forward publishing dates. A bit confusing (and there are good reasons to do it this way), but the general picture is the same.
I also have a special call-out to the many publishers who are still not including Author ID’s in their submissions to PubMed. It’s not that the authors don’t have them or don’t want them submitted, it makes life much easier for everyone. It’s often they have not adjusted their processes or systems to include them when submitting. This is not the time to make research harder to find. This includes Scientific Reports (ISSN 2045–2322) who holds the clear lead in published articles but has less than 1/3 of them submitted with Author IDs. PloS One (1932–6203) who’s in second place, has 95% of submitted articles with Author IDs.
Anyone interested in the ranking of all 10,680 let me know and I’ll send you the Excel data file.
Take care and have a great holiday!
