2. Quantity

3. 13,556 papers worldwide between 2000-2006 (average 1,936 papers/year) Number is growing 2000 1,495 2001 1,582 2002 1,641 2003 1,912 20042,062 20052,459 20062,415 Papers published on malaria

4. Where are papers on malaria published ? Am J Trop Med Hyg (112/year) Trop Med Int Health (59) Mol Biol Parasit (57) Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (54) Infect Immunity (49) Parasitol Today/Trends (45) J Inf Dis (38) Lancet (37) Acta Trop (30) 27% of all papers are published in a small numbers of journals, each publishing regularly over 30 papers per annum

5. Where are papers on malaria published ? Am J Trop Med Hyg (112/year) Trop Med Int Health (59) Mol Biol Parasit (57) Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg (54) Infect Immunity (49) Parasitol Today/Trends (45) J Inf Dis (38) Lancet (37) Acta Trop (30) 27% of all papers are published in a small numbers of journals, each publishing regularly over 30 papers per annum Malaria Journal 4750 63 127

6. Malaria in the high impact journals IFNb malaria papers/ year New Engl J Med 44 3 Science3017 Cell292 Nature2916 Lancet2337 J Exp Med134 PNAS1022 (PLoS Medicine825) BMJ913

7. Quality

8. How does a small, independent journal, ensure quality ? High profile Editorial Board Quality reviewing Quality copy-editing Conflict between ‘open access philosophy’ and high selectivity APC + waiver for DEC authors Retro-effect of Impact Factor

9. High profile Editorial Board Paolo Arese (Italy) - J. Kevin Baird (Indonesia) - Guy Barnish (UK) Imelda Bates (UK) - John Beier (USA) - Bernard Brabin (UK) Joel G. Breman (USA) - Carlos C Campbell (USA ) - J Carlton (USA) Ian Clark (Australia) - Maureen Coetzee (South Africa) Marc Coosemans (Belgium) -Michel Cot (France) - Alister Craig (UK) Umberto D’Alessandro (Belgium) - Peter David (France) Martin Donnelly (UK) - Ogobara K. Doumbo (Mali) - Ibrahima Socé FALL (Zimbabwe) - Heather M. Ferguson (Netherlands) Didier Fontenille (France) - Mary Galinski (USA) - Hagai Ginsburg (Israel) Jenny Hill (UK) - Carol Hopkins Sibley (USA) - Lars Hviid (Denmark) Moses J. Bockarie (USA) - Tomas Jelinek (Germany) - Bart GJ Knols (Netherlands) Feiko ter Kuile (UK) - Christian P Lengeler (Switzerland) - Steve W Lindsay (UK) Vicky Marsh (Kenya) - Anne Mills (UK) - François Nosten (Thailand) Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia (Madagascar) - Lisa Ranford-Cartwright (UK) Hilary Ranson (UK) - Pascal Ringwald (Switzerland) - Vincent Robert (France) Joseph Schrevel (France) - Balbir Singh (Malaysia) - Georges Snounou (France) Colin Sutherland (UK) - Marcel Tanner (Switzerland) - Geoff Targett (UK) Madeleine C. Thomson (USA) - Harold Townson (UK) - Marita Troye-Blomberg (Sweden) David Walliker (UK) - David Warhurst (UK) - Nick White (Thailand) -Christopher Whitty (UK) Difficult balance between high profile, depth of coverage, geographical distribution, effectiveness

10. High profile Editorial Board Paolo Arese (Italy) - J. Kevin Baird (Indonesia) - Guy Barnish (UK) Imelda Bates (UK) - John Beier (USA) - Bernard Brabin (UK) Joel G. Breman (USA) - Carlos C Campbell (USA ) - J Carlton (USA) Ian Clark (Australia) - Maureen Coetzee (South Africa) Marc Coosemans (Belgium) -Michel Cot (France) - Alister Craig (UK) Umberto D’Alessandro (Belgium) - Peter David (France) Martin Donnelly (UK) - Ogobara K. Doumbo (Mali) - Ibrahima Socé FALL (Zimbabwe) - Heather M. Ferguson (Netherlands) Didier Fontenille (France) - Mary Galinski (USA) - Hagai Ginsburg (Israel) Jenny Hill (UK) - Carol Hopkins Sibley (USA) - Lars Hviid (Denmark) Moses J. Bockarie (USA) - Tomas Jelinek (Germany) - Bart GJ Knols (Netherlands) Feiko ter Kuile (UK) - Christian P Lengeler (Switzerland) - Steve W Lindsay (UK) Vicky Marsh (Kenya) - Anne Mills (UK) - François Nosten (Thailand) Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia (Madagascar) - Lisa Ranford-Cartwright (UK) Hilary Ranson (UK) - Pascal Ringwald (Switzerland) - Vincent Robert (France) Joseph Schrevel (France) - Balbir Singh (Malaysia) - Georges Snounou (France) Colin Sutherland (UK) - Marcel Tanner (Switzerland) - Geoff Targett (UK) Madeleine C. Thomson (USA) - Harold Townson (UK) - Marita Troye-Blomberg (Sweden) David Walliker (UK) - David Warhurst (UK) - Nick White (Thailand) -Christopher Whitty (UK) Difficult balance between high profile, depth of coverage, geographical distribution, effectiveness 18/50 Board members amongst the 50 ‘most-published’ authors between 2003-2006

14. Depth of coverage