Global Medical Publishing 2021-2025

Global Medical Publishing 2020-2025

This report provides an overview and financial outlook for the global medical publishing market based on specific research and analysis of the leading competitors’ performance. Simba has used the information it gathered through primary and secondary research to estimate company, market and individual delivery channel performance in 2020. Company performance is estimated through 2021. Market performance is projected through 2025. This research was conducted in conjunction with a larger study of the overall market for professional publishing, including legal and business publishing, the results of which are available in the associated reports:

  • Global Social Science & Humanities Publishing 2021-2025;
  • Global Scientific & Technical Publishing 2021-2025;
  • STM Online Services 2021-2025;
  • Open Access Journal Publishing 2020-2024;
  • Open Access Book Publishing 2002-2024;
  • Scholarly & Professional E-Book Publishing 2020-2024.
The overall market and each market segment are divided into five content delivery channels: journals, books, other activities (a category that includes live meetings, audio, video and CD-ROM information), online content, and abstracting and indexing services. In addition, elimination of trading within the industry between competing players is presented.


  • Methodology
    • Definition of Medical Publishing
      • Journals
      • Books
      • Online Content
      • Other Activities
      • Abstracting & Indexing Services
      • Elimination
    • Scope of the Report
    • Sources of Information
      • Primary & Secondary Research
      • Methodology for Projecting/Estimating Results
  • Executive Summary
    • Introduction
    • Key Facts & Trends
      • The Ten Largest Publishers Hold 50% of the Global Medical Market
      • Online Content Posts Strong Growth, Will Continue to Drive Medical Publishing Market
      • Medical Journals Show Stability Through COVID-19 Pandemic
      • North America Remains Key Market With 46% of Global Sales
      • World Health Care Expenditures Slowed Due to COVID-19
      • Continuing Medical Education and Visualization Tools Hot Properties in M&A Deals
  • Global Medical Publishing Market
    • Introduction
    • Market Size
      • Table Medical Market, Publishing Activity Breakdown, 2018-2020
      • Table New Medical Journal Starts 2017 to Year to Date 2021
      • Journals
      • Online Content
      • Books
        • Table AAP StatShot Sales, Education and Scholarly Publishing, 2019-2020
        • Table Professional & Scholarly Book Title Output by Medical Category 2018-2020
      • Other Activities
      • Abstracting & Indexing (A&I) Services
      • Elimination
    • Medical Publishing by Geography
      • Regional Breakdown:
      • Language Splits and Major Publishing Hubs
      • North America
      • Europe
        • Table Currency Exchange Rate Movements for Europe 2018-2020
      • Asia-Pacific
        • Table Currency Exchange Rate Movements for Asia-Pacific 2018-2020
        • Table Currency Exchange Movements for Rest of World, 2018-2020
      • Rest of the World
      • Currency Impact
  • Leading Medical Publishers
    • Introduction
    • Leading Medical Publishers
    • Elsevier
      • Company Overview
        • Table Leading Publishers, Clinical Medicine Books Published in 2020
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
        • Table Leading Publishers' Medical Revenue & Growth, 2018-2020
    • Wolters Kluwer
      • Company Overview
        • Table Leading Publishers, Nursing Journals, by Title Count
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • IBM Watson Health
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • Springer Nature
      • Company Overview
        • Table Leading Publishers, Medicine & Health Journals, by Title Count
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • John Wiley & Sons
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
        • Table Leading Open Access Medicine & Health Journal Publishers, by Title Count
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • Informa
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • Hearst Health
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • athenahealth
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • Thieme Publishing
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • American Medical Association
      • Company Overview
      • Recent Company Performance
      • Medical Publishing Strategy
    • Other Competitors
      • EBSCO Information Services
      • Pearson
      • American Psychological Association
      • BMJ Publishing Group
      • NEJM Group
      • McGraw Hill
      • MDPI
        • Table Underlying Growth Leaders 2019 vs. 2020
      • Frontiers
    • Mergers & Acquisitions in Medical Publishing
      • Table Key Medical Publishing Market, M&A Activity, 2019
      • Table Key Medical Publishing Market, M&A Activity, 2020
      • Table Key Medical Publishing Market, M&A Activity, 2021
  • Trends & Forecast
    • Introduction
    • Current Trends in Medical Publishing
      • World Health Expenditure
        • Table World Health Care Expenditure 2016-2020
        • Table World Health Care Expenditure 2021P-2025P
      • Academic Library Trends
      • Renew, Transform, Cancel: Libraries Are Choosing Their Big Deal Options Very Carefully
        • Table Journal Big Deal Cancelations, 2020-2021
        • Table Institutions Exchange Big Deals for ÀLa Carte Purchasing, 2020-2021
      • Transformative Agreements
        • Table Largest Transformative Agreements by Number of Publications Covered
      • Average Journal Prices Increase Every Year
        • Table Journal Price Increase History for Academic Medical Libraries 2017-2020
      • Leading Research Funders and Their Link to Publishing Activity
        • Table Leading Research Funding Agencies by Articles Funded, 2019-2020
        • Table National Institutes of Health, Leading Publishers and Journals 2020
      • Health Care Advertising Increasingly Digital and Consumer Based
      • Technical, Scientific & Professional Book Export Trends
        • Table Top Countries Importing Technical, Scientific & Professional Books from U.S. 2020
      • Technical, Scientific & Professional Book Import Trends
        • Table Top Countries Exporting Technical, Scientific & Professional Books to U.S. 2020
      • Employment Trends: Medical Doctors, Nurses & Dentists
        • Table Historical & Projected Growth of Medical Doctors' Global Headcount
        • Table Historical & Projected Growth of Nurses' Global Headcount
        • Table Historical & Projected Growth of Dentists' Global Headcount
    • Medical Publishing Forecast
      • Introduction
        • Table Economist, IMF and Freedonia Group World GDP Forecasts, 2021P-2025P
      • Journals Forecast
        • Table Medical Publishing Forecast by Publishing Activity, 2021P-2025P
        • Table Projected 2021 Journals Price Increases by Priced/Billed Currency
      • Online Content Forecast
      • Books Forecast
        • Table AAP Year to Date 2021 StatShot Sales Data, Higher Ed, Professional
        • Table U.S. Technical, Scientific & Professional Book Exports, January-April 2021
      • Other Activities Forecast
      • Abstracting & Indexing Forecast
      • Elimination Forecast
      • Forecast of Leading Publishers
        • Table Leading Medical Publishers' Revenue & Growth, 2020-2021P

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