How Popular are Online Journals?

We all know that online journals are the workhorses of the academic library. Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students continually tell us that the ability to access journal articles from off-campus and at any time is important to their research and teaching.

But how often are online journal articles used by Hopkins researchers? Lots. TONS. Libraries get reports of the number of articles accessed from the publishers of (most) online journals.

Below are the five online journals that had the most articles accessed between January and May 2010. These 5 titles had 181,994 articles accessed over 151 days; that’s an average of 1,205 articles per day. For just these five titles!

Nature – 64,109
Science – 45,772
Lancet – 26,143
Cell – 23,877
USA Today – 22,093

Do you read any of these? Are you wondering where your favorite journal lands in the list? After the jump, you’ll find a list of the 50 most-accessed journals (January – May 2010). Search for any of them using our Search a citation link.

JHU’s 50 most-accessed journals (January – May 2010)

• 1. Nature
  2. Science
  3. The Lancet
  4. Cell
  5. USA Today
  6. Neuron
  7. Plos One
  8. Journal Of The American Chemical Society
  9. Nature Neuroscience
  10. Nature News
  11. Economist
  12. Nature Medicine
  13. Nature Genetics
  14. Social Science & Medicine
  15. Biochemical And Biophysical Research Communications
  16. Callaloo
  17. Harvard Business Review
  18. Journal Of The American College Of Cardiology
  19. Oncogene
  20. Early American Imprints Series 1
  21. Neuroimage
  22. Nature Biotechnology
  23. Nature Methods
  24. Vaccine
  25. Advertising Age
  26. American Journal Of Epidemiology
  27. Proquest Dissertations And Theses
  28. Journal Of Molecular Biology
  29. Current Biology
  30. Education Week
  31. Nature Cell Biology
  32. Biomaterials
  33. Molecular Cell
  34. Nucleic Acids Research
  35. Nature Reviews Neuroscience
  36. Ophthalmology
  37. Critical Care Medicine
  38. Brain Research
  39. Biochemistry
  40. Neuroscience
  41. Ajn, American Journal Of Nursing
  42. The Journal Of Organic Chemistry
  43. The Journal Of Urology
  44. Human Molecular Genetics
  45. The Embo Journal
  46. Library Journal
  47. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  48. Developmental Biology
  49. Biophysical Journal
  50. Nature Reviews Cancer

Remember, accessing these journals via the links you find through the library is the way to use these remotely.