The growth and number of journals

By Michael Mabe. 2003

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The number and the growth characteristics of scholarly journals have been matters of some debate for a considerable time. Many assumptions about the future of the scholarly communication system have been predicated on very high estimates of the number of journal titles and their seemingly inexorable growth. This article argues in favour of a novel approach to estimating journal numbers and provides results that are consistent with other lines of enquiry. An analysis of the results also allows a model of journal growth to be developed that matches other statistical observations.

Subfields: Information Systems

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Electronic Journals and Changes in Scholarly Article Seeking and Reading Patterns (2008, background): “…of articles published continues to increase each year, thus putting pressure on faculty to read more articles just to tackle the same proportion of the literature in their discipline and increasing multidisciplinary research (Morris, 2007; Mabe, 2003; Mabe and Amin, 2001; Tenopir and King, 2009).”
Bias in peer review (2013, unknown): “Today there are literally thousands (estimates vary considerably ) of peer-reviewed journals in existence, although the stringency and consistency with which peer review procedures are applied across this population are variable (Mabe, 2003).”
Excellence or quality? Impact of the current competition regime on science and scientific publishing in Latin America and its implications for development (2014, background): “Thus emerges a peculiar landscape of publishing resting on one basic thesis: the number of scientific journals in the world is supposed to range from 12,000 titles to about 28,000 titles at most (Mabe, 2003).”
The Development of Open Access Journal Publishing from 1993 to 2009 (2011, methodology): “Ware and Mabe [6] measured that the total number of scholarly journals has increased at a steady rate of about 3.5% annually over the last three centuries, while growth in the total number of articles during the same time period has increased at the slightly slower pace of about 3% annually.”
The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index (2010, background): “According to Mabe (2003) the ISI journal set represents about 95% of all journal citations found in the ISI database.”