1988

1998

Price
(in US$)

Cites

Cost/Use
(in US$)

Papers

Price
(in US$)

Cites

Cost/Use
(in US$)

Papers

Blackwell

193

1575

0.40

123

508

2652

0.55

156

Churchill Livingston*

183

1726

0.26

103

721

2821

0.62

146

Elsevier

482

3477

0.36

179

1548

4222

0.78

204

Harcourt

209

3713

0.18

164

518

5294

0.34

171

Karger

321

893

0.59

86

711

935

1.01

79

Mosby*

100

4071

0.07

248

241

5369

0.15

269

Plenum*

233

1352

0.25

92

759

1733

1.86

121

Springer

481

2268

0.44

141

1057

2386

0.84

153

Taylor

259

759

0.48

74

658

572

1.67

55

Thomson*

207

1210

0.46

92

733

2788

0.45

140

Waverly*

119

3171

0.10

188

277

5770

0.16

237

Wiley

333

2205

0.38

128

1409

3338

1.10

145

Wolters Kluwer

176

2535

0.19

154

504

3519

0.52

153

Unweighted Averages

253

2227

0.32

136

742

3184

0.77

156

Notes

1. Numbers based on journals that commenced publication prior to 1989, and had 100 or more cites in 1988 or 1998.

2. Firms marked with an asterisk (*) were acquired in mergers with other firms in the list during 1997–1998.