The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic and evolving business models make it imperative to have precise market intelligence from analysts who understand the dynamics of STM publishing.
Medical publishing is a $10 billion industry whose market leaders enjoy double-digit profit margins, serving one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy. Medical publishing has a diverse set of revenue channels. In this report, the overall market and each market segment are divided into five content delivery channels: books, journals, online content, abstracting and indexing, and other activities.
Global Medical Publishing 2021-2025 contains separate chapters covering the market, key competitors, and trends and forecast that include:
- The publisher's exclusive analysis of market size and structure
- Revenue and market share rankings of 10 leading global publishers
- Geographic market sizing for the four major regional markets: North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Rest of World
- The publisher's exclusive market projections to 2025 by publishing activity.
Whether your focus is books, journals, online content, you can trust Global Medical Publishing 2021-2025 to provide the inside intelligence you need to evaluate growth potential, understand trends affecting the industry, and size up the competition in the dynamic markets for STM content worldwide. Examples of some of the trends covered include:
- Breakdown of publishing activities, trends and forecast
- Analysis of COVID-19 impact, both immediate and long term
- Key mergers and acquisitions in medical publishing
- Global physician, nursing, dentistry employment
- Global health expenditure forecast
- U.S. import/export data for technical, scientific and professional books
- The emergence of transformative agreements with libraries
- Leading research funders and their links to publishers and journals
Global Medical Publishing 2021-2025 is an essential tool for publishing executives, M&A advisors, market analysts and industry consultants who need to understand the business strategies driving the medical publishing industry.
Table of Contents
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
CHAPTER 1: GLOBAL MEDICAL PUBLISHING MARKET
- INTRODUCTION
- MARKET SIZE
- Figure 1.1: Medical Market, Publishing Activity Share, 2020
- Table 1.1: Medical Market, Publishing Activity Breakdown, 2018-2020
- Table 1.2: New Medical Journal Starts 2017 to Year to Date 2021
- Journals
- Figure 1.2: Medicine & Health Journal Metrics: Peer Reviewed, Online, Print and Open Access
- Online Content
- Books
- Table 1.3: AAP StatShot Sales, Education and Scholarly Publishing, 2019-2020
- Table 1.4: 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
- Figure 1.3: Medical Publishing Market, Geographic Share, 2020
- North America
- Europe
- Table: 1.5: Currency Exchange Rate Movements for Europe 2018-2020
- Asia-Pacific
- Table 1.6: Currency Exchange Rate Movements for Asia-Pacific 2018-2020
- Table 1.7: Currency Exchange Movements for Rest of World, 2018-2020
- Rest of the World
- Currency Impact
CHAPTER 2: LEADING MEDICAL PUBLISHERS
- INTRODUCTION
- LEADING MEDICAL PUBLISHERS
- Figure 2.1: Leading Medical Publishers, Share of Market, 2020
- ELSEVIER
- Company Overview
- Table 2.1: Leading Publishers, Clinical Medicine Books Published in 2020
- Recent Company Performance
- Medical Publishing Strategy
- Table 2.2: Leading Publishers’ Medical Revenue & Growth, 2018-2020 1
- WOLTERS KLUWER
- Company Overview
- Table 2.3: 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 2.4: Leading Publishers, Medicine & Health Journals, by Title Count
- Recent Company Performance
- Medical Publishing Strategy
- JOHN WILEY & SONS
- Company Overview
- Recent Company Performance
- Table 2.5: 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: 2.6: Underlying Growth Leaders 2019 vs. 2020
- Frontiers
- MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS IN MEDICAL PUBLISHING
- Table 2.7: Key Medical Publishing Market, M&A Activity, 2019
- Table 2.8: Key Medical Publishing Market, M&A Activity, 2020
- Table 2.9: Key Medical Publishing Market, M&A Activity, 2021
CHAPTER 3: TRENDS & FORECAST
- INTRODUCTION
- CURRENT TRENDS IN MEDICAL PUBLISHING
- World Health Expenditure
- Table 3.1: World Health Care Expenditure 2016-2020
- Table 3.2: World Health Care Expenditure 2021P-2025P
- Academic Library Trends
- Renew, Transform, Cancel: Libraries Are Choosing Their Big Deal Options Very Carefully
- Table 3.3: Journal Big Deal Cancelations, 2020-2021
- Table 3.4: Institutions Exchange Big Deals for À La Carte Purchasing, 2020-2021
- Transformative Agreements
- Table 3.5: Largest Transformative Agreements by Number of Publications Covered
- Average Journal Prices Increase Every Year
- Table 3.6: Journal Price Increase History for Academic Medical Libraries 2017-2020
- Leading Research Funders and Their Link to Publishing Activity
- Table 3.7: Leading Research Funding Agencies by Articles Funded, 2019-2020
- Table 3.8: National Institutes of Health, Leading Publishers and Journals 2020
- Health Care Advertising Increasingly Digital and Consumer Based
- Technical, Scientific & Professional Book Export Trends
- Figure 3.1: U.S. Technical, Scientific & Professional Book Export Trends 2017-2020
- Figure: 3.2: U.S. Technical, Scientific and Professional Book Exports by Region 2020
- Table 3.9: Top Countries Importing Technical, Scientific & Professional Books from U.S. 2020
- Technical, Scientific & Professional Book Import Trends
- Figure 3.3: U.S. Technical, Scientific & Professional Book Import Trends 2017-2020
- Figure: 3.4: U.S. Technical, Scientific and Professional Book Imports, Share by Region 2020
- Table 3.10: Top Countries Exporting Technical, Scientific & Professional Books to U.S. 2020
- Employment Trends: Medical Doctors, Nurses & Dentists
- Table 3.11: Historical & Projected Growth of Medical Doctors’ Global Headcount
- Table 3.12: Historical & Projected Growth of Nurses’ Global Headcount
- Table 3.13: Historical & Projected Growth of Dentists’ Global Headcount
- MEDICAL PUBLISHING FORECAST
- Introduction
- Table 3.14: Economist, IMF and Freedonia Group World GDP Forecasts, 2021P-2025P
- Journals Forecast
- Table 3.15: Medical Publishing Forecast by Publishing Activity, 2021P-2025P
- Table 3.16: Projected 2021 Journals Price Increases by Priced/Billed Currency
- Online Content Forecast
- Books Forecast
- Table 3.17: AAP Year to Date 2021 StatShot Sales Data, Higher Ed, Professional
- Table 3.18: U.S. Technical, Scientific & Professional Book Exports, January-April 2021
- Other Activities Forecast
- Abstracting & Indexing Forecast
- Elimination Forecast
- Forecast of Leading Publishers
- Table 3.19: Leading Medical Publishers’ Revenue & Growth, 2020-2021P
Companies Mentioned
- American Medical Association
- Athenahealth
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Ebsco Information Services
- Elsevier
- Hearst Health
- IBM Watson Health
- Informa
- John Wiley & Sons
- MDPI
- NEJM Group
- Springer Nature
- Thieme Publishing
- Wolters Kluwer
Methodology
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