I pulled some numbers together in order to better understand what a service that mediated submissions to the NIH Manuscript Submission System might look like. I thought you all might be interested as well.
There were 6027 articles indexed in PubMed in the last 10 years which cited NIH support and listed a U of M (TC) affiliation for the primary author. Those appeared in a total of 1195 journals.
512 of those 1195 journals (approximately 44%) contain only a single citation. Here is a line graph of the distribution, and it shows that a relative handful of journals contain the vast majority of citations. If that trend were to hold true over the next ten years, then approximately 25% of the articles we processed would be from journals which would publish less than 3 articles over that period.
There were 144 journals which contained 10 citations or more. That seemed like a workable number, so I tracked down the publishers and policies of those. The good news is that, of that set, 88.9% have policies which allow authors to comply with the NIH mandate.
I have all this information now in a database, so if you can think of any other numbers that might be illustrative, let me know and I'll see if I can't pull them together.
-Wayne
Posted by biomedref at March 5, 2008 10:47 AM