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 4 Number/percentage of qualitative articles published in top health services & policy research 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 Manag Care
qualitative empirical articles	1	2	1	3	1	2	1	2	2	0	15
total empirical articles	124	178	140	164	86	149	140	113	108	116	1318
percentage qualitative	0.8	1.1	0.7	1.8	1.2	1.3	0.7	1.8	1.9	0.0	1.1
Health Affairs
qualitative empirical articles	1	2	1	5	2	2	0	4	3	0	20
total empirical articles	133	145	153	182	172	227	251	220	218	178	1879
percentage qualitative	0.8	1.4	0.7	2.7	1.2	0.9	0.0	1.8	1.4	0.0	1.1
Health Econ
qualitative empirical articles	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	2	1	6
total empirical articles	56	58	57	56	78	87	109	92	86	84	763
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.0	1.8	0.0	1.3	1.1	0.0	0.0	2.3	1.2	0.8
Health Serv Res
qualitative empirical articles	0	0	3	2	0	2	3	5	2	0	17
total empirical articles	72	82	74	83	93	110	107	115	126	101	963
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.0	4.1	2.4	0.0	1.8	2.8	4.3	1.6	0.0	1.8
J Health Econ
qualitative empirical articles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
total empirical articles	38	51	52	54	53	55	57	60	59	104	583
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Med Dec Mak
qualitative empirical articles	1	0	2	0	1	2	0	2	3	1	12
total empirical articles	52	53	54	61	48	58	57	49	64	82	578
percentage qualitative	1.9	0.0	3.7	0.0	2.1	3.4	0.0	4.1	4.7	1.2	2.1
Medical Care
qualitative empirical articles	0	0	3	3	3	1	1	1	1	1	14
total empirical articles	180	129	129	167	151	161	175	191	184	183	1650
percentage qualitative	0.0	0.0	2.3	1.8	2.0	0.6	0.6	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.8
Milbank Q
qualitative empirical articles	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	2	5
total empirical articles	21	19	20	23	19	19	29	21	20	22	213
percentage qualitative	0.0	5.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	5.3	0.0	4.8	0.0	9.1	2.3
Qual Saf Health Care
qualitative empirical articles	---	---	---	2	1	6	7	8	5	10	39
total empirical articles				66	88	99	102	95	80	82	612
percentage qualitative				3.0	1.1	6.1	6.9	8.4	6.3	12.2	6.4
Value Health
qualitative empirical articles	---	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	4
total empirical articles		12	25	30	45	52	50	46	62	152	474
percentage qualitative		0.0	0.0	3.3	2.2	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.7	0.8

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