Paucity of qualitative research in general medical and health services and policy research journals: analysis of publication rates

Gagliardi, Anna R; Dobrow, Mark J

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-11-268

Table 3 Number/percentage of qualitative articles published in top general medical journals, 1999 to 2008

From: Paucity of qualitative research in general medical and health services and policy research journals: analysis of publication rates

Journal	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	Total
Am J Med
qualitative empirical articles	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	5
total empirical articles	287	242	303	267	267	299	326	306	264	259	2820
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.6	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.2
Ann Intern Med
qualitative empirical articles	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	7
total empirical articles	261	242	308	308	315	267	296	282	266	255	2800
percentage qualitative	0.8	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.8	0.3
Arch Intern Med
qualitative empirical articles	1	1	1	1	0	1	3	0	1	0	9
total empirical articles	278	359	335	309	301	302	312	288	280	261	3025
percentage qualitative	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.0	0.3	1.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.3
BMJ
qualitative empirical articles	2	3	8	14	7	2	2	1	0	2	41
total empirical articles	677	624	592	676	754	622	600	534	565	695	6339
percentage qualitative	0.3	0.5	1.4	2.1	0.9	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.3	0.6
CMAJ
qualitative empirical articles	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
total empirical articles	268	241	223	247	251	237	266	227	212	206	2378
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.8	0.9	0.8	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3
J Intern Med
qualitative empirical articles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
total empirical articles	146	151	118	124	142	136	121	124	123	110	1295
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
JAMA
qualitative empirical articles	2	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	4
total empirical articles	649	675	664	654	563	456	491	451	463	504	5570
percentage qualitative	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.1
Lancet
qualitative empirical articles	0	2	2	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	8
total empirical articles	931	823	837	881	922	850	738	656	567	600	7805
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.3	0.2	0.0	0.1
NEJM
qualitative empirical articles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
total empirical articles	465	448	446	461	508	634	636	611	615	610	5434
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
PLoS Medicine
qualitative empirical articles	---	---	---	---	---	0	0	0	1	1	2
total empirical articles						42	189	288	222	179	920
percentage qualitative						0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.6	0.2

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