Chen C C
Bull Med Libr Assoc. 1974 Jul;62(3):302-7.
This is the fourth part of a comprehensive, quantitative study of biomedical book reviews. The data base of the total project was built from statistics of 3,347 reviews of 2,067 biomedical books taken from all 1970 issues of fifty-four reviewing journals. This part of the study identifies the major American and British biomedical book publishers in terms of their quantitative production of book titles reviewed, and determines the relationships among these publishers. It is found that Williams & Wilkins, Charles C Thomas, Academic Press, and Springer Verlag are the most productive biomedical book publishers in terms of books reviewed in 1970. These four publishers accounted for 32% of the 1,674 books available in the United States and reviewed in the reviewing media in 1970. Williams & Wilkins is especially significant by virtue of reprint activity. The present study also explores the price trend of biomedical books. It is found that the mean price for 1,077 books studied was $16.20 per volume, with a standard deviation of $9.42.
这是一项关于生物医学图书评论的全面定量研究的第四部分。整个项目的数据库是根据从54种评论期刊的1970年所有期目中选取的2067本生物医学图书的3347篇评论的统计数据建立的。该研究的这一部分从所评论图书标题的数量产出方面确定了美国和英国主要的生物医学图书出版商，并确定了这些出版商之间的关系。研究发现，就1970年被评论的图书而言，威廉姆斯与威尔金斯公司、查尔斯·C·托马斯出版社、学术出版社和施普林格出版社是产量最高的生物医学图书出版商。这四家出版商占1970年在美国可供获取并在评论媒体上被评论的1674本书籍的32%。威廉姆斯与威尔金斯公司因其重印活动而尤为突出。本研究还探讨了生物医学图书的价格趋势。研究发现，所研究的1077本书的平均价格为每册16.20美元，标准差为9.42美元。
