Table 1 Distribution of HIV abstracts by year and characteristics

- AIDS

50 (31.4)

20 (13.1)

70 (22.4)

- AIDS Patient Care STDS

2 (1.3)

7 (4.6)

9 (2.9)

- Annals of Internal Medicine

2 (1.3)

2 (1.3)

4 (1.3)

- Archives of Internal Medicine

4 (2.5)

0

4 (1.3)

- BMC Medicine

0

3 (2.0)

3 (1.0)

- British Medical Journal

3 (1.9)

2 (1.3)

5 (1.6)

- Clinical Infectious Diseases

12 (7.5)

8 (5.2)

20 (6.4)

- HIV Medicine

8 (5.0)

4 (2.6)

12 (3.8)

- International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

0

1 (0.7)

1 (0.3)

- JAMA Internal Medicine

0

1 (0.3)

1 (0.3)

- Journal of Acquire Immune Deficiency Syndrome

39 (24.5)

40 (26.1)

79 (25.3)

- Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

1 (0.6)

3 (2.0)

4 (1.3)

- Journal of Infectious Diseases

14 (8.8)

10 (6.5)

24 (7.7)

- Journal of the American Medical Association, The

2 (1.3)

6 (3.9)

9 (2.9)

- Journal of the International AIDS Society

0

3 (2.0)

3 (1.0)

- Lancet Infectious Diseases, The

0

20 (13.1)

20 (6.4)

- Lancet, The

14 (8.8)

7 (4.6)

21 (6.7)

- New England Journal of Medicine, The

6 (3.8)

7 (4.6)

13 (4.2)

- Pediatric Infectious Diseases Journal, The

0

6 (3.9)

6 (1.9)

- PLoS Medicine

2 (1.3)

3 (2.0)

5 (1.6)

Mean number of authors

11.1 (4.6)

13.3 (8.4)

12.2 (6.8)

- 0–6

19 (12.0)

20 (13.1)

39 (12.5)

- 7–12

97 (61.0)

67 (43.8)

164 (52.6)

- 13 and more

43 (27.0)

66 (43.1)

109 (34.9)

- <10

126 (79.2)

107 (69.9)

233 (74.7)

- ≥10

33 (20.8)

46 (30.1)

79 (25.3)

- Yes

129 (81.1)

109 (71.2)

238 (76.3)

- No

30 (18.9)

44 (28.8)

74 (23.7)

- IMRAD

137 (86.2)

129 (84.3)

266 (85.3)

- Eight-heading

11 (6.9)

14 (9.2)

25 (8.0)

- One-block

11 (6.9)

10 (6.5)

21 (6.7)

- Yes

137 (86.2)

125 (81.7)

262 (84.0)

- No

22 (13.8)

28 (18.3)

50 (16.0)

- Infectious diseases

126 (79.2)

122 (79.7)

248 (79.5)

- General medicine

33 (20.8)

31 (20.3)

64 (20.5)

- Yes

97 (61.0)

52 (34.0)

114 (36.5)

- No

62 (39.0)

101 (66.0)

198 (63.5)