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Content Usage and the Most Frequently Read Articles of 2016

Phil Lupo, Anne Victoria Neale and Marjorie A. Bowman
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2017, 30 (3) 272-274; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2017.03.170122

2016 was the 29th year of print and 14th year of publication of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM). Once again, we provide our annual report of articles published in 2016 that were of greatest interest to our readers. Table 1 shows the 3 most frequently read articles by issue in 2016. Once again, original research proves to be the most-read type of article.

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Table 1.

The Three Most Frequently Read Articles in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 2016, Volume 29, By Issue

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 2009 to 2016. 2016 was the busiest year for online usage activity in JABFM's history, with an average of 619,766 content usage requests a month, and a total of 7.43 million during the year. Content activity was up 16% in 2016 compared with content usage requests during 2015 and, when compared with 2009, we note a 215% increase. Full-text articles were the most accessed during 2016, with an average of 223,311 monthly requests, followed by abstracts, with 191,517 average monthly requests, and then PDF articles, with 135,060 average monthly requests.

Figure 1.
Figure 1.

Total access events for Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine content from 2009 to 2016. An access event occurs each time a user opens a new screen on the website.

As always, we welcome reader feedback about published articles. Comments about specific articles can be posted to the JABFM website (www.jabfm.org) by selecting “Responses” to the right of the article text. Letters to the editor can also be submitted for peer review and publication using the author portal.

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