Table 1.

Statistics of bioinformatics journals

	Bio	Bio	Bio	Bio	Bio	Bio	Bio	Bio	Bio	Bio
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
# of Paper	204	280	443	561	767	599	660	600	727	692
# of Author	541	827	1413	1957	2665	2082	2409	2113	2731	2680
Author per Paper	2.65	2.95	3.18	3.48	3.47	3.47	3.65	3.52	3.75	3.87
	JBI	JBI	JBI	JBI	JBI	JBI	JBI	JBI	JBI	JBI
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
# of Paper	36	38	46	45	48	32	74	96	101	119
# of Author	98	97	128	155	149	56	241	391	391	450
Author per Paper	2.72	2.55	2.78	3.44	3.10	1.75	3.25	4.07	3.87	3.78
	BMC	BMC	BMC	BMC	BMC	BMC	BMC	BMC	BMC	BMC
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
# of Paper	9	40	66	209	414	633	613	745	729	737
# of Author	27	120	248	736	1465	2467	2416	2897	2863	2932
Author per Paper	3.00	3.00	3.75	3.52	3.53	3.89	3.94	3.88	3.92	3.97
	PLoS	PLoS	PLoS	PLoS	PLoS	PLoS	PLoS	PLoS	PLoS	PLoS
	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
# of Paper					71	168	252	287	375	414
# of Author					233	579	837	1005	1466	1683
Author per Paper					3.28	3.44	3.32	3.50	3.90	4.06