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Content Usage and the Most Frequently Read Articles of 2014

Phillip Lupo, Anne Victoria Neale and Marjorie A. Bowman
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine May 2015, 28 (3) 303-305; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.03.150089

During our 27th year of print and 12th year of electronic publication of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine (JABFM), we are pleased to provide our annual report of articles published in 2014 that were of the greatest interest to our readers. Table 1 shows the 3 most frequently read articles by issue in 2014. Original research proves to be the most-read type of article in the 2014 list.

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Table 1. The Three Most Frequently Read Articles in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine by Issue in 2014

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 2007 to 2014. 2014 was the busiest year for online usage activity in JABFM's history, with an average of 536,659 content usage requests a month, and a total of 6.43 million annually—an average of over 1 million hits per issue! Content activity was up 19% in 2014 compared with content usage requests during 2013 and, when compared with 2007, a 128% increase is noted. Full-text articles were the most accessed during 2014, with an average of 214,010 monthly requests; followed by abstracts, with 190,354 average monthly requests; then PDF articles, with 79,370 average monthly requests.

Figure 1.
Figure 1.

The number of total access events for Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine content from 2007 to 2014. 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 by clicking on “Responses” in the middle column of the article.

Notes

  • Conflict of interest: The authors are editors and staff of the JABFM.

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