The UT Southwestern Library regularly gathers usage statistics from electronic journal providers to demonstrate how faculty, staff, students, residents, and fellows are using the resources to which we subscribe. The usage statistics we collect are based on the COUNTER 5 Code of Practice, which (1) enables publishers and vendors to report usage of their electronic resources in a consistent way and (2) enables libraries to compare data received from different publishers and vendors.
The COUNTER metric that we prefer to use for journal usage statistics is the Unique_Item_Requests, which "provides comparable usage across journal platforms by reducing the inflationary effect that occurs when an HTML full text automatically displays and the user then accesses the PDF version."
Using this metric, this guide indicates the most used ejournals during Fiscal Year 2024 (September 1, 2023 – August 31, 2024). This list will be updated at least annually.
The following list is presented in alphabetical order, and each link goes directly to the journal's table of contents information in BrowZine.
Note: Other access points with varying coverage dates may be available for each journal. A complete list with links to all available access points may be viewed at the following link:
| Rank | Title | Number of Uses | Change from Last Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Nature | 102,836 | – |
| 2. | New England Journal of Medicine | 53,052 | – |
| 3. | Science | 51,346 | – |
| 4. | Cell | 43,612 | – |
| 5. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) | 36,099 | – |
| 6. | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 22,835 | – |
| 7. | JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association | 22,145 | – |
| 8. | Circulation | 18,999 | ↑1 |
| 9. | Molecular Cell | 17,769 | ↓1 |
| 10. | Nature Methods | 14,812 | – |
| 11. | Nature Cell Biology | 12,129 | ↑2 |
| 12. | Nature Biotechnology | 11,963 | – |
| 13. | Nature Medicine | 11,203 | ↑2 |
| 14. | Nature Genetics | 10,758 | – |
| 15. | Neuron | 10,490 | ↓4 |
| 16. | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 10,420 | ↑6 |
| 17. | Lancet | 10,299 | ↑4 |
| 18. | Nature Protocols | 10,266 | ↑1 |
| 19. | Cancer Research | 10,186 | ↓2 |
| 20. | Nature Neuroscience | 9,886 | ↓4 |
| 21. | Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 9,401 | ↓1 |
| 22. | Organic Letters | 8,894 | ↑2 |
| 23. | Nature Immunology | 8,890 | ↑3 |
| 24. | Journal of Clinical Oncology | 8,660 | ↑5 |
| 25. | Radiographics | 8,172 | ↓7 |
