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Table 1 Use of IMRAD formatting in papers by the different types of authoring teams by year

From: The introduction, methods, results and discussion (IMRAD) structure: a Survey of its use in different authoring partnerships in a students' journal

Year

IMRAD Formatting

Team composition

Total

  

Student

Student and Faculty

Faculty

 

1990.00

Yes

1

0

1

2

 

No

0

0

3

3

 

Total

1

0

4

5

1991.00

Yes

1

1

10

12

 

No

8

2

10

20

 

Total

9

3

20

32

1992.00

Yes

1

3

7

11

 

No

1

0

6

7

 

Total

2

3

13

18

1993.00

Yes

0

0

1

1

 

No

3

0

6

9

 

Total

3

0

7

10

1994.00

Yes

0

1

11

12

 

No

7

0

7

14

 

Total

7

1

18

26

1995.00

Yes

0

0

3

3

 

No

6

0

6

12

 

Total

6

0

9

15

1998.00

Yes

0

0

3

3

 

No

8

0

5

13

 

Total

8

0

8

16

2005.00

Yes

2

3

3

8

 

No

4

0

3

7

 

Total

6

3

6

15

2006.00

Yes

7

1

0

8

 

No

19

1

2

22

 

Total

26

2

2

30

2007.00

Yes

3

1

6

10

 

No

15

0

8

23

 

Total

18

1

14

33