- PHARMACOTHERAPY: 117 414 articles in 2013
- PHARMACOLOGY: 210 228 articles in 2013
- ADVERSE EFFECTS: 86 067 articles in 2013
Tuesday 25 November 2014
Intriguing statistics on the volume of alternative medicine research | Edzard Ernst
The volume of medical research, as listed on Medline, is huge and increases steadily each year. This phenomenon can easily be observed with simple Medline searches. If we use search terms related to conventional medicine, we find near linear increases in the number of articles (here I do not make a distinction between types of articles) published in each area over time, invariably with a peak in 2013, the last year for which Medline listing is currently complete. Three examples will suffice:
