A History of Scientific Journals
Lessons from the history of Royal Society journal publishing, 1665-2015
This graph shows as much information as we have about the Royal Society’s expenditure on publications, and income from sales of publications, from 1752 (when the Society took on the ownership of the Transactions) until 1920.
Continue reading “The unprofitability of scientific journals, 1750-1900”
This graph shows the number of papers submitted to the Royal Society over the course of (roughly) the twentieth century. It includes papers that would ultimately be published in both Transactions and Proceedings, as well as papers that were never published.
Continue reading “Submissions in life sciences vs physical sciences, 1927-1989”