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The Most Frequently Read Articles of 2020

Phil Lupo, Marjorie A. Bowman, Dean Seehusen and Christy J. W. Ledford
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2021, 34 (3) 462-465; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2021.03.210106
Phil Lupo
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Dean Seehusen
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2020 was the 33rd year of print and 18th year of online publication of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM). Here we provide our annual report of articles published in 2020 that were of greatest interest to our readers. Table 1 shows the 3 most frequently read articles by issue in 2020 from Volume 33. Once again, original research proves to be the most-read type of article. Glucosamine/Chondroitin and Mortality in a US NHANES Cohort by King and Xiang1 was the most read article in 2020 from Volume 33. In Table 2, we provide the 20 most frequently read articles in 2020 from all volumes (Volume 1 to 33). Historically, clinical articles tend to be the most read.

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Table 1.

The Three Most Frequently Read Articles in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2020, Volume 33, by Issue*

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Table 2.

The 20 Most Frequently Read Articles in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine in 2020, Volumes 1-33, 1988–2020*

As always, we welcome reader feedback about published articles. Letters to the editor can also be submitted for peer review and publication using the author portal.

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  • Conflicts of interest: The authors are editors of the JABFM.

  • To see this article online, please go to: http://jabfm.org/content/34/3/462.full.

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    . An ethical framework to manage patient requests for medical marijuana. J Am Board Fam Med 2020;33:147–51.
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    . A change management case study for safe opioid prescribing and opioid use disorder treatment. J Am Board Fam Med 2020;33:129–37.
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