Table II.
Dermatology-focused eponym usage in 5 dermatology journals∗
| Journal (year of first publication) | First PubMed indexed year | Publication year (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 1980 | 2000 | 2020 | ||
| Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (1979) | 1979 | † | 6.4 | 11.9 | 7.0 |
| British Journal of Dermatology (1888) | 1951 | 0.0 | 9.5 | 12.7 | 6.3 |
| Journal of Investigative Dermatology (1938) | 1945 | 0.0 | 10.8 | 8.5 | 7.6 |
| Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (1991) | 1998 | † | † | 7.9 | 5.0 |
| JAMA Dermatology (1920)‡ | 1955 | 3.6 | 7.0 | 8.4 | 5.9 |
∗
The years when the 5 journals were first indexed in PubMed are also listed. The frequency of dermatology-focused eponyms among 5 dermatology journals was calculated as a percentage of total citations in those 5 journals in the years 1960, 1980, 2000, and 2000.
†
Articles not indexed in PubMed that year.
‡
JAMA Dermatology has had several name changes; it was established in 1920 as Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, and next in 1960 it became Archives of Dermatology, and finally its current name was set in 2013; the publication year (%) in this table is from Archives of Dermatology or JAMA Dermatology.