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

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[mailto:SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU]On Behalf Of Ann Ercelawn
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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?
>>