Larivière and his co-authors write: “...while the majority of periodicals emerged from scientific societies, a significant proportion were published by commercial ventures as early as in the Victorian era. At that time, these commercial publishing houses proved more efficient in diffusing them than scientific societies.” They cite (note 10) W. H. Brock tp support their assertion. Actually, Brock wrote (p. 96): "Although there were more commercial than society-sponsored science journals founded during the nineteenth century, few of them had long lives. Indeed, whereas perhaps the majority of society-sponsored journals have survived in some form into the 1970s, of the commercial journals founded before 1900, only about a dozen ... are still published.”
