It’s been a big year for Read by QxMD — adding preprints, congress abstracts, study summaries, journal clubs and much more. Equally, it’s been another big year for research and practice changing medicine with 1,611,741 new journal articles being added to Read, the most we’ve ever added in a year and that doesn’t even include all the other aforementioned new forms of research.

With more users than ever we have a lot of interesting insights into the reading habits of over 65 core specialties across the globe. Just for starters, for the first time since 2019 the top 10 most read papers doesn’t feature a COVID related paper, which is refreshing, but the most searched term is still ‘COVID’.

Below you can find the top ten most read papers, most viewed collections, most viewed journals, most searched terms and also the most read papers for your specialty — let us know if there is any other data you would be interested in!

1. 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
2. Vitamin D supplementation: Pearls for practicing clinicians.
3. Vasopressor Choice and Timing in Vasodilatory Shock.
4. Management of varices and variceal hemorrhage in liver cirrhosis: a recent update.
5. Acute coronary syndromes.
6. Prediction of fluid responsiveness. What’s new?
7. Metabolic Alkalosis Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment: Core Curriculum 2022.
8. Recent Updates to Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diabetes Mellitus.
9. Hyponatremia in the emergency department.
10. Acute Pancreatitis: Diagnosis and Treatment.

1. Trending Papers in ‘Read by QxMD’
2. NEJM — Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Clinical Cases
3. NEJM — Images in Clinical Medicine
4. Guidelines And Reviews
5. NEJM — Clinical Problem Solving
6. The Flozins/SGLT2 Inhibitor Collection
7. Essential Surgical Knowledge
8. ESC 2022 Hotline Studies
9. Medicina Interna
10. Most Popular Sepsis Papers

1. New England Journal of Medicine
2. Lancet
3. JAMA
4. JAMA Internal Medicine
5. Critical Care Medicine
6. Annals of Internal Medicine
7. Circulation
8. Chest
9. Nature
10. BMJ : British Medical Journal

1. Covid
2. Diabetes
3. Sepsis
4. Pancreatitis
5. Stroke
6. Heart failure
7. Hypertension
8. Pneumonia
9. Asthma
10. Acute pancreatitis

• Allergy and Clinical Immunology
• Anesthesiology
• Cardiology
• Critical Care, Intensive Care
• Dermatology
• Emergency Medicine
• Endocrinology, Metabolism
• Family Medicine / Primary Care / GP
• Gastroenterology
• Geriatrics
• Hematology/Oncology (Hematology Focus)
• Infectious Disease
• Internal Medicine
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Medical Oncology
• Orthopedics
• Otolaryngology (E.N.T.)
• Pathology
• Psychiatry
• Radiology
• Physiatry, Rehabilitation Medicine
• Respirology
• Rheumatology
• Cardiac Surgery
• Surgery — General
• Surgery — Maxillofacial
• Surgery — Surgical Oncology
• Surgery — Vascular
• Urology
• Other Specialty
• Pediatric Critical Care
• Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
• Pediatric Ophthalmology
• Radiation Oncology
• Hematology/Oncology (Oncology Focus)
• Reproductive Health/Infertility
• Sports Medicine
• Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine
• Pediatric Surgery
• Pediatric Cardiology
• Pediatrics, Developmental-Behavioral
• Pain Management
• Cancer Science & Oncogenesis
• Pharmacology
• Hospital Medicine