Website use and journal citations
Between March
2009 and February 2010, the CONSORT website recorded an average of 13, 621
visits per month, and totaling 163,461 visits for the year. This is an increase of approximately 13% (144,936)
of visits from the previous year. Sixty-six percent (107,705) of the visits in
the recent year were made by new visitors, while 34% (55,756) were made by
returning visitors.
These visits were
made by 112,302 unique visitors over the year, averaging 9,359 per month.
Compared to the previous year, this total is an increase of 9% (102,846). The
highest number of unique visitors to the website recorded in one day during
this time frame was 1,125 (1 Feb 2010), and the lowest was 87 (25 Dec 2009).
These visitors came from 197 different countries.
According to Essential
Science Indicators (ESI), which lists the top one percent of all
publications in each of the key scientific domains each publication
year, the CONSORT Statement (1-3), the Explanation and
Elaboration (E&E) document (4), and two CONSORT extension
publications - CONSORT for Harms (5), and CONSORT for Cluster Trials
(6) - are all in the top one percent.
Citations of
the revised CONSORT Statement (2001) have risen steadily from
2001 to 2006, with over 1,200 citations in the last six years
since publication. The CONSORT E&E document (4) has been cited over
500 times in six years.
References
1. Begg C,
Cho M, Eastwood S, et al. Improving the quality of reporting of randomized
controlled trials. The CONSORT statement. JAMA. 1996;276:637-9. [PMID:
0008773637]
2. Moher D,
Schulz KF, Altman DG, for the CONSORT Group. The CONSORT statement: revised
recommendations for improving the quality of reports of parallel group
randomized trials. JAMA. 2001;285:1987-91.
3. Moher D,
Schulz KF, Altman DG, for the CONSORT Group. The CONSORT statement: revised
recommendations for improving the quality of reports parallel group randomized
trials. Lancet. 2001;357:1191-94. [PMID: 11323066]
4. Altman
DG, Schulz KF, Moher D, Egger M, Davidoff F, Elbourne D, Gotzsche P, Lang T for
the CONSORT Group. The Revised CONSORT Statement for Reporting Randomized
Trials: Explanation and Elaboration. Ann Intern Med 2001;134(8):663-94. [PMID:
11304107]
5.
Ioannidis JP, Evans SJ, Gotzsche PC, O'Neill RT, Altman DG, Schulz K, Moher D.
Better reporting of harms in randomized trials: an extension of the CONSORT
statement. Ann Intern Med 2004; 141(10):781-788. [PMID: 15545678]
6.
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