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Content Usage and the Most Frequently Read Articles by Issue in 2013

Phillip Lupo, Anne Victoria Neale and Marjorie A. Bowman
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2014, 27 (3) 306-308; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2014.03.140090
Phillip Lupo Jr.
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We are pleased to provide our annual report about Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM) articles published in 2013 that were of the greatest interest to our readers. Table 1 shows the 3 most frequently read articles by issue in 2013. Original research proves to be the most-read type of article in the 2013 list.

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Table 1. The Three Most Frequently Read Articles in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine by Issue in 2013

In addition, we provide an update on the usage statistics of our content over the past 8 years. Figure 1 illustrates the number of total access events for JABFM content from 2006 to 2013. 2013 Was the busiest year for online usage activity in JABFM's history, with an average of 889,144 every 2 months (JABFM is published bimonthly) and a total of 5.33 million annual content usage requests. Compare this with 14.2 million website visits per year for the weekly Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA): about 284,000 visits per week.1 Content activity was up 53% in 2013 compared with content usage requests during 2012 and, when compared with 2006, a 620% increase is noted. Full-text articles were the most accessed during 2013, with an average of 168,420 monthly requests; followed by abstracts, with 162,919 average monthly requests; then PDF articles, with 67,812 average monthly requests.

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The number of total access events for Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine content from 2006 to 2013.

Full-text and PDF articles were accessed 472,464 times per issue compared with 280,000 full-text and PDF downloads per JAMA issue.1 Of note, JAMA also has 325,000 subscribers who receive the print journal per week, whereas the JABFM readership is mostly online.

As always, we welcome reader feedback about published articles. Comments about specific articles can be posted to the JABFM website by clicking on “Responses” in the middle column of the article.

Notes

  • Conflict of interest: The authors are editors and staff of the JABFM.

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