These publications—international journals as well as niche and regional scholarly publications—were collectively responsible for 1 million manuscript submissions in 2010 ( million in 2011). In 2005, the total number of submissions made using ScholarOne Manuscripts was 317,325. The data have not been normalized to reflect the growing number of sites using ScholarOne Manuscripts. The trend from clients has been initially to debut larger sites, usually in Science, Technical and Medical (STM) subjects, and then move to smaller titles, often in non-STM fields (see Figure 1). This is reflected in the average number of submissions per ScholarOne Manuscripts site: in 2005 this.
