Prevalence of publications with an empirical research design published per year in each journal, in absolute numbers and as a percentage of total
| Journal | Year | Total | Total % | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | |||
| NA, not applicable | ||||||||||||||||
| Bioethics | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 6.6 |
| Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (starts in 1992) | NA | NA | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 5.6 |
| Hastings Center Report | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0.9 |
| Journal of Clinical Ethics | 4 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 93 | 15.4 |
| Journal of Medical Ethics | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 128 | 16.8 |
| Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal (starts in 1991) | NA | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Nursing Ethics (starts in 1994) | NA | NA | NA | NA | 3 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 17 | 14 | 16 | 26 | 27 | 145 | 39.5 |
| Christian Bioethics (starts in 1995) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 3.2 |
| Total | 10 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 18 | 22 | 32 | 43 | 33 | 44 | 44 | 42 | 50 | 53 | 435 | |
| Total % | 5.4 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 8.8 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 10.7 | 14.2 | 11.7 | 13.5 | 14.2 | 12.5 | 15.6 | 15.4 | 10.8 | |