Scholarly Video Journals to Increase Productivity
in Medical Research and Education
Moshe Pritsker, Ph.D.
CEO, co-founder
JoVE
Productivity in medical
research and education
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Traditional Scientific Article
Position the metaphase spindle at 3 o’clock and hold
it with holding pipette. Apply piezo pulses to penetrate
the zona pellucida. Touch the metaphase plate with
the enucleation pipette. Aspirate the spindle and
withdraw the pipette.
What does it say???
How can it be used for research or
teaching???
New approach: publish science using
video online
Text doesn’t work?
Show it in video!
Create new type of science journal:
video journal
JoVE video article
Niiyama, H., Huang, N. F., Rollins, M. D., Cooke, J. P., Murine Model of Hindlimb Ischemia
http://www.jove.com/details.stp?id=1035 doi: 10.3791/1035. J Vis Exp. 23 (2009).
January 2009: published
March 2012: unique views – 63,000; citations in other journals – 24.
JoVE summary – April 2013
Published 74 montly issues, >2,000 video-articles since Oct. 2006
First video journal indexed in PubMed and Medline
Current rate of publication: 50 video-articles per month across 5 sections:
JoVE
JoVE Neuroscience
JoVE Immunology and Infection
JoVE Bioengineering
JoVE Translational and Clinical Medicine
JoVE Applied Physics
JoVE Chemistry
JoVE Behavior (from June 2013)
JoVE Environment (from September 2013)
Usage growth – web traffic
• 300,000 unique visitors per month
• 80% from academic instituitions
Subscription growth
Subscribers: universities, colleges and pharma/biotech companies
Institutional Subscribers
May 2013: ~500 institutions subscribed. Examples:
USA: Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Caltech, Berkeley, NIH, ….
Canada: McGill, Toronto, Calgary, Queens, Guelph, Waterloo, …
UK: Edinburgh, Manchester, Leicester, Kings College, …
Germany: Max Planck Institute, MDC Berlin, U. Frankfurt, ….
Sweden: Karolinska Institute, Uppsala, Chalmers, University of Agriculture, ….
Israel: Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Technion, Weizmann Institute, ….
Australia: Newcastle, Queensland, Melbourne, New South Wales, …
Taiwan: National Taiwan University, Academica Sinica, National Health Research, …
Korea: Yonsei, KAIST, Korean Institute of Science and Technology
Example : Harvard & Harvard Medical School
2,000 views per month
Example: Brigham and Women’s Hospital
450 views per month
How video publication works we film your video in your lab
Videographer Network
Countries covered: USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland,
Sweden, France, Israel, Japan and Australia
What users say
Dr. Maria Toledo-Rodriguez, University of Nottingham
By having the video protocol ... anybody can quickly learn the
technique whenever it is convenient for her/him saving them lots of
time, money and frustrations.
Dr. Rich Condit, University of Florida
You can't figure out how to do this stuff just from reading the literature,
you have to have somebody show you ... this is amazing!
Lalitha Chandrasekher, PhD student, Georgetown University
Thank you for creating and developing such an astounding resource for
scientists! This is truly going to rapidly advance progress in all fields of
research and the potential applications are endless.
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