I've no scientific basis to support this, but I've heard it seaid several times
within the BMJ that the growth in the number of biomedical serial titles has at
least slowed to a trickle in recent years and may actually have stopped. I'm
sure Jeremy Wyatt's assertion used to be true but maybe not any more.
Tony McSean
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"Kiley ,Mr Robert" <[log in to unmask]> on 01/09/2000 09:01:26
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Subject: RE: Number of medical journals
See current issue of the JRSM (August 2000) and the article by Jeremy Wyatt
'Reading journals and monitoring published work"
In this piece Jeremy writes:
"There are over 40,000 biomedical journals and the number doubles every 20
years"
R
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