Table 1.
Information on the biomedical sciences journals used in this study.
Fig 1.
Comparative analysis of the proportion of articles that uses microscopy techniques in biomedical sciences journals.
Analysis of the presence of optical (OM) and electron (EM) microscopy methodologies in all articles published in 2019 in the journals: British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP), Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (JPP), Frontiers in Pharmacology (FP), Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Cells (CEL), Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). N = 200 articles analyzed in each scientific journal.
Fig 2.
Comparative analysis of the proportion of use of different optical and electron microscopy techniques in biomedical sciences journals.
We analyzed in each article the use of 8 types of optical microscopy techniques: bright field (BrF), phase contrast (Pha), differential interference contrast (DIC), polarization (Pol), conventional fluorescence (Flu), confocal fluorescence (Conf), super resolution (SRes), and live cell imaging (Live); and 3 types of electron microscopy techniques: transmission (TEM), scanning (SEM) and cryo-EM (CrEM). Data were collected from articles published in 2019 in the biomedical sciences journals: British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP), Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (JPP), Frontiers in Pharmacology (FP), Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Cells (CEL), Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). N = 200 articles analyzed in each scientific journal.
Fig 3.
Comparative analysis of the number of microscopy techniques used in articles from biomedical sciences journals.
Data were collected from articles published in 2019 in the biomedical sciences journals: British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP), Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (JPP), Frontiers in Pharmacology (FP), Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Cells (CEL), Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). N = 200 articles analyzed in each scientific journal.
Fig 4.
Comparative analysis of the percentage of articles figures with microscopy and cell culture in biomedical sciences journals.
The percentage of figures containing microscopy images is shown in blue bars, the percentage of articles containing cell culture is shown in orange bars and the percentage of articles containing cell culture and microscopy is shown in magenta. Data were collected from articles published in 2019 in the biomedical sciences journals: British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP), Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (JPP), Frontiers in Pharmacology (FP), Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Cells (CEL), Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). N = 200 articles analyzed in each scientific journal.
Fig 5.
Comparative analysis of the vocabulary of biomedical sciences journals.
Word clouds were generated using the titles of articles. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Data were collected from articles published in 2019 in the biomedical sciences journals: British Journal of Pharmacology (BJP), Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (JPP), Frontiers in Pharmacology (FP), Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), Journal of Cell Science (JCS), Cells (CELL), Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). N = 200 articles analyzed in each scientific journal.