Table 1 Number of original articles published from August 2007 to August 2019 in the 5 most read journals during our journal club meetings in the 3 journal categories, percentages of articles exposed during our journal club meetings and percentages of practice-changing articles

294,167

495

0.17 [0.15–0.18]

45

9.09 [6.86–11.95]

8534

215

2.52 [2.21–2.87]

25

11.63 [8.00–16.60]

8678

135

1.56 [1.32–1.84]

9

6.67 [3.55–12.18]

10,426

71

0.68 [0.54–0.86]

9

12.68 [6.81–22.37]

12,488

21

0.17 [0.11–0.26]

0

0.00 [0.00–15.46]

1653

19

1.15 [0.74–1.79]

0

0.00 [0.00–16.82]

252,388

34

0.01 [0.01–0.02]

2

5.88 [1.63–19.09]

29,553

728

2.46 [2.29–2.65]

31

4.26 [3.02–5.98]

4927

361

7.33 [6.63–8.09)

15

4.16 [2.53–6.74]

3014

200

6.64 [5.80–7.58]

7

3.50 [1.71–7.05]

4926

77

1.56 [1.25–1.95]

3

3.90 [1.33–10.84]

4268

57

1.34 [1.03–1.73]

4

7.02 [2.76–16.70]

692

16

2.31 [1.43–3.72]

1

6.25 [1.11–28.33]

11,726

17

0.14 [0.09–0.23]

1

5.88 [1.05–26.98]

264,429

345

0.13 [0.12–0.14]

17

4.93 [3.10–7.75]

7661

76

0.99 [0.79–1.24]

7

9.21 [4.53–17.81]

5102

65

1.27 [1.00–1.62]

2

3.08 [0.85–10.54]

3613

23

0.64 [0.42–0.95]

1

4.35 [0.77–20.99]

2369

18

0.76 [0.48–1.20]

1

5.56 [0.99–25.76]

4259

14

0.33 [0.20–0.55]

1

7.14 [1.27–31.47]

241,425

149

0.06 [0.05–0.07]

5

3.36 [1.44–7.61]

588,149

1568

0.27 [0.25–0.28]

93

5.93 [4.87–7.21]

10,982,188

1568

0.01 [0.01–0.02]

93

5.93 [4.87–7.21]