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MEDLINE® Citation Counts by Year of Publication

Years of publication Total # Citations # Citations Published in US % Citations Published in US
2007* 563,815 266,934 47%
2006 674,076 299,957 44%
2005 639,999 289,530 45%
2004 591,021 271,928 46%
2003 555,417 260,206 47%
2002 525,102 246,111 47%
2001 505,137 238,173 47%
2000 486,232 229,673 47%
1999 457,396 216,981 47%
1998 446,597 211,396 47%
1997 431,534 205,462 48%
1996 421,818 200,063 47%
1995 416,426 198,005 48%
1994 407,252 191,675 47%
1993 397,982 184,937 46%
1992 391,674 179,292 46%
1991 388,812 173,926 45%
1990 388,150 169,353 44%
1989 381,420 162,344 43%
1988 365,647 155,193 42%
1987 348,002 146,116 42%
1986 330,453 138,697 42%
1985 318,089 131,696 41%
1984 307,911 127,284 41%
1983 299,016 122,804 41%
1982 285,259 116,178 41%
1981 274,371 109,691 40%
1980 272,422 107,565 39%
1979 274,226 106,877 39%
1978 265,479 101,023 38%
1977 255,781 95,894 37%
1976 249,278 91,632 37%
1975 244,330 87,294 36%
1974 230,221 80,873 35%
1973 226,499 77,487 34%
1972 222,538 72,798 33%
1971 217,939 70,050 32%
1970 212,739 67,143 32%
1969 210,988 66,963 32%
1968 203,984 63,775 31%
1967 186,910 58,501 31%
1966 175,039 55,488 32%
1965** 164,786 50,353 31%
1964** 141,408 42,451 30%
1963** 129,928 NA NA
1962** 105,823 NA NA
1961** 92,957 NA NA
1960** 87,253 NA NA
1959** 79,526 NA NA
1958** 71,202 NA NA
1957** 73,891 NA NA
1956** 69,248 NA NA
1955** 68,682 NA NA
1954** 67,558 NA NA
1953** 72,674 NA NA
1952** 76,020 NA NA
1951** 81,659 NA NA
1950** 71,586 NA NA
1949** 20,802 NA NA
Pre-1949** 2,179 NA NA
1964-2007 Subtotals 15,220,533 6,490,977 43%
Totals*** 16,391,521 ——— ———


*Searches were done in PubMed on February 21, 2008. Publication year 2007 is not yet complete.

**As of December 2006, OLDMEDLINE citations that have all of their original subject terms mapped to current MeSH are included in MEDLINE. There are more citations in PubMed with these older publication dates; most are OLDMEDLINE status.

***PubMed includes both the print and electronic publication dates in a publication date search, therefore citations may be counted under more than one year. The totals do not include these duplicates.

Notes:
- Any search repeated on a later day may yield different results (typically higher numbers, as NLM may have processed more completed citations for various reasons, e.g., time lag in receipt, or a new journal for indexing going back to volume 1, or data from back issues such as PubMed Central and other sources).
- Counts are limited to the MEDLINE subset [sb] of PubMed and do not include out-of-scope citations. To search PubMed® for MEDLINE excluding OLDMEDLINE citations, add NOT jsubsetom to your search.
- Country of publication means the country where the journal was published. These data are available for the OLDMEDLINE subset only for the years 1964-65.

Last reviewed: 23 April 2008
Last updated: 23 April 2008
First published: 27 May 2003
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