PLoS ONE: now the world's largest journal?

[Heather Morrison <hgmorris@sfu.ca>]

With 6,749 articles published in 2010, it appears that the open 
access journal PLoS ONE is now the world's largest journal. For 
details and a chart illustrating PLoS ONE growth, see: 
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com/2011/01/plos-one-now-worlds-largest-journal.html

This represents 50% growth for PLoS ONE over 2009.

This growth rate in articles is similar at Hindawi Publishing, 
which reported a 40% increase in article submissions in 2010, 
passing the milestone of 3,000 articles in one month in December: 
https://mx2.arl.org/Lists/SPARC-OAForum/Message/5715.html

These and other growth rates of open access initiatives are in 
marked contrast with the overall rate of scholarly literature 
growth, which has been reported to be fairly steady at 3 - 3.5% 
per year for the last few decades.

If Liblicense readers have any information on the number of 
articles published by other really large journals in this range, 
please let me know.

Heather Morrison, MLIS
Doctoral Candidate, Simon Fraser University School of Communication
http://pages.cmns.sfu.ca/heather-morrison/
The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics
http://poeticeconomics.blogspot.com