Analysis of page utilization and types of articles published in four major American cardiology journals in 1984.

Several peer-review journals devoted exclusively to cardiology are published in the U.S.A. Although the types of articles and the authors of (and reviewers for) the articles in the various American cardiologic journals are similar, the numbers of articles and pages utilized for them in the various journals are quite different. This article summarizes the results of counting the numbers of editorial (non-advertising) pages published and the types of articles published during 1984 in the American Heart Journal, the American Journal of Cardiology, Circulation, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.