A rather late response to this thread:

When I was a publisher of medical journals, we worked out that the average
extent of a journal article was 9 pages.   I think this figure may be more
widely applicable, though there are of course discipline variations

Sally

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Black" <blacks@MAIL.STROSE.EDU>
To: <SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Average no. of articles in academic journals

> For Question 1, I searched in EBSCOhost's Academic Search Elite, limiting to
> full text, peer-reviewed, for 2002, for [blank] in default fields.  That
> retrieved 110,168 hits.  The database information claims that there are 1300
> peer-reviewed journals in full text, so that comes to about 85 articles per
> title per year.  There are of course caveats & cautions with using this
> number, but it's probably a pretty fair estimate for all disciplines lumped
> together.  I'd just want to be sure the professor doesn't want to apply the
> 85 to any one discipline, because the count would almost surely be
> different.
>
> I'll leave Question 2 to some other brave soul.
>
> Steve Black
> Reference, Instruction, and Serials Librarian
> Neil Hellman Library
> The College of Saint Rose
> 392 Western Ave.
> Albany, NY 12203
> (518) 458-5494
> blacks@mail.strose.edu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum
> [mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Ann Ercelawn
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 3:17 PM
> To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
> Subject: [SERIALST] Average no. of articles in academic journals
>
>
> Hello,
> A professor here has asked thetwo questions below. Can SERIALST
> readers help with this query?
> Thanks,
> Ann
>
> >> Question: What is the average number of articles published
> >> annually in individual academic journals?  I am interested in an
> >> average number per journal over a wide range of journals.
> >>
> >> Similarly, what is the average page count annually per journal?