Top 100 journals in ticTOCs tables of contents service

Some pretty interesting statistics, taken from ticTOCs the journal tables of contents (TOCs) service, are available below. 

There are two lists.  The first one shows the ‘top 100 journals’ according to popularity of titles added by users of the ticTOCs service to their MyTOCs (explanation – those who have registered with ticTOCs (which is free) can save selected TOCs to a MyTOCs section so that the next time they visit they can see new TOC content, and thereby keep up-to-date with the literature on a regular basis).  Over 3,000 people have registered with ticTOCs since it was launched in December 2008, and so the list below is a snapshot of the most popular journal titles selected by those registrants. The figures show how many people have saved each journal title to their MyTOCs.

What is immediately obvious from looking at the first list is the fact that ticTOCs is being widely used by library and information professionals, but not yet by researchers in other disciplines.  Librarians seem to understand ticTOCs very quickly, and to get the message of how useful the service is if you want to keep up-to-date with scholarly literature.  But, I wonder, when are researchers in other disciplines going to catch on? 

ticTOCs has had a wonderful reception from the LIS community.  Now, we hope hope that the word will spread to the rest of the scholarly community. 

Library & Information Science Research	183
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science	157
The Journal of Academic Librarianship	153
Library Review	147
Library Management	141
The Library Quarterly	132
New Library World	119
The International Information & Library Review	108
Library Hi Tech	106
Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services	105
Journal of Information Science	97
The Electronic Library	97
The Library – current issue	96
Online Information Review	83
Ariadne Magazine	82
Library Hi Tech News	79
International Journal of Information Management	78
Aslib Proceedings	76
Reference Services Review	74
Nature	72
IFLA Journal	71
Journal of the American Society for Information Science	70
Information Retrieval	68
The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances	67
Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems	65
Health Information and Libraries Journal	64
Science	61
Library History	59
Education for Information	53
Collection Building	51
Serials Review	50
Journal of Documentation	50
Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community	49
Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship	49
Reference Reviews	49
Journal of Web Librarianship	47
Information Design Journal	45
SIMILE: Studies In Media & Information Literacy Education	45
Journal of Library Administration	44
OCLC Systems & Services	44
Journal of Library Metadata	44
Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning	43
Information Processing & Management	43
Ethics and Information Technology	42
Information Development	40
Archives and Museum Informatics	38
Interlending & Document Supply	36
Information Management & Computer Security	35
International Journal on Digital Libraries	33
Biomedical Digital Libraries	33
Journal of Information Ethics	33
Performance Measurement and Metrics	32
New England Journal of Medicine	32
Journal of Classification	32
Active Learning in Higher Education	31
Archival Science	31
New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship	31
The Lancet	30
Journal of the Society of Archivists	30
Scientific and Technical Information Processing	30
Records & Information Management Report	30
JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association	29
Legal Information Management	28
The Indexer	26
Journal of Enterprise Information Management	25
Information, Knowledge, Systems Management	24
ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology	24
International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics	24
BMJ	24
Information Sciences	22
The Internet and Higher Education	22
Huntington Library Quarterly	22
Journal of Knowledge Management	22
Journal of Information Literacy	21
Notes and Queries – current issue	21
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education	20
The Reference Librarian	20
Journal of the American Chemical Society	19
Higher Education Quarterly	19
Journal of Interlibrary Loan Document Delivery & Electronic Reserve	19
Communications in Information Literacy	19
Higher Education	18
Information Technology in Hospitality	18
Knowledge and Information Systems	17
New Directions for Higher Education	17
Interactive Learning Environments	16
Journal of Advanced Nursing	16
South African Journal of Libraries and Information Science	15
E-Learning	15
New Scientist	15
Higher Education Research & Development	15
American Journal of Education	15
Current Anthropology	15
Ciência da Informação	15
Annual Review of Anthropology	15
Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture	15
Ecology	15
Public Library Quarterly	15
The Information Society: An International Journal	14
Art History	14

 

The second list, below, shows the top 100 most viewed journals by those who have registered with ticTOCs.

Ariadne Magazine

Science

Nature

Library & Information Science Research

Library Hi Tech

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

American Economic Review

Library Review

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

Economics of Education Review

ALT-J: Research in Learning Technology

Aslib Proceedings

Online Information Review

Targeted Oncology

Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology

The Library Quarterly

Library Management

New Library World

Journal of Information Science

The Electronic Library

Active Learning in Higher Education

IFLA Journal

Annals of the ICRP

Collection Building

The Library – current issue

Library Hi Tech News

Information Retrieval

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical S…

Oxford Review of Education

International Journal of Information Management

Performance Measurement and Metrics

Education for Information

Journal of the American Society for Information Sc…

Reference Services Review

D-Lib Magazine

Serials Review

Journal of Information Literacy

Energy

Information Sciences

The International Information & Library Review

Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship

BMJ

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Archival Science

Art History

E-Learning

Journal of Documentation

Zeitschrift fur Germanistik

Cancer Letters

Journal of Library Administration

Progress in Aerospace Sciences

Oncology

Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Man…

Journal of Marketing

Journal of Knowledge Management

4OR: A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research

Contemporary Educational Psychology

World Wide Web

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

Autism

Acta Materialia

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

Social Service Review

Journal of Web Librarianship

Acta Biomaterialia

Journal of the Society of Archivists

SIMILE: Studies In Media & Information Literacy Ed…

Reference Reviews

International Journal on Digital Libraries

AIAA Journal

British Journal of Educational Technology

Health Information and Libraries Journal

Program: Electronic Library and Information System…

Design Studies

Aerospace Science and Technology

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Healt…

Legal Information Management

New England Journal of Medicine

Physics of Fluids

American Journal of Psychiatry

Biomedical Digital Libraries

He@lth Information on the Internet

Notes and Queries – current issue

JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Associati…

Journal of Classification

Advances in Food and Nutrition Research

Annual Review of Anthropology

International Journal of Leisure and Tourism Marke…

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engin…

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Archives and Museum Informatics

Tobacco Use Insights

European Journal of International Relations

Thorax

Library History

Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community

Lab on a Chip

Higher Education Quarterly

Supervision Magazine

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

 

Roddy MacLeod
Heriot-Watt University Library