Latest BioMed Central subscribed by Users

March 30, 2008 – 11:54 am by Dani Iswara

In my Bloglines - an online feed reader, I have some RSS feeds of latest articles from BioMed Central. I made a list some of latest BioMed Central articles subscribed by users.

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Table 1. Latest BioMed Central articles subscribed by users

BioMed Central Specialties Subscribers
Biomedical Digital Libraries 55
BMC Bioinformatics 37
BMC Dermatology 7
BMC Emergency Medicine 20
BMC Family Practice 9
BMC Health Services Research 10
BMC Infectious Diseases 3
BMC Medical Education 18
BMC Medical Ethics 6
BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making 21
BMC Medicine 8
BMC Public Health 45

Here are some of my suggestions:

  • The number of subscribers are affected by journal quality.
  • Maybe open access is not so popular right now.
  • It is important only to medical researchers & librarians.
  • They (clinicians) are too busy people..
  • They don’t understand how to use RSS feeds.. (Web 2.0, the future of medicine and healthcare)

Do you have any suggestions? :)

Further reading: Complete lists (A-Z) of BMC journals.

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Last updated: Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 11:31 pm

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