From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 18:36:58 +0100

I am not aware of any statistics on the number of articles per publisher -
Jan, are you?

Sally Morris
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU
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From: Jan Velterop <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:45:10 +0200

I'm quite surprised that 'journals' is still the unit of thought.
Surely, it's the number of articles published that counts?

Jan Velterop

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On 26 Jul 2012, at 23:28, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Sally Morris <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 11:02:17 +0100
>
> According to my calculations in 2007, the top 5 (now 4) publishers
> (Elsevier, Springer, T&F, Blackwell & Wiley) published nearly 25% of
> the journals in Ulrichs (about half of these on behalf of nonprofit
> organisations).
>
> In 1993 David Brown used figures supplied by BH Blackwell which
> indicated that 117 'large' publishers (out of a total of 17531)
> published 17086 (20%) of a total of 34833 journals.
>
> Sally Morris
> South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing West Sussex, UK  BN13 3UU
> Email:  [log in to unmask]