For publishers
Increase citations, readership, and discoverability for your journal
TrendMD helps scholarly publishers grow readership, increase article engagement, and reach new audiences. Whether you publish a single journal or manage a portfolio of titles, TrendMD connects your content with the readers most likely to find it valuable.
Free widget
The TrendMD widget recommends related content to your current readers, showing the most relevant articles to those most likely to be interested. Installing the widget on your website typically increases article pageviews by 3-5% at no cost.
On the free Starter Plan, approximately 75% of your additional article views come from visitors on your own sites discovering links in the TrendMD widget. The remaining 25% come from visitors finding your content in the widget on third-party sites across the network. The widget also earns you credits — on average, 7-10 new reader credits per 1,000 widget loads — which can be reinvested to acquire further visitors.
Paid promotion
To reach readers beyond your own sites, you can set a monthly budget to promote your articles across the full TrendMD network of 8,600+ scholarly publications and 5 million monthly readers. You are only charged for the traffic TrendMD delivers. TrendMD uses article-level metrics such as click-through rates and engagement time to determine which of your articles are promoted and where.
For every US $1 spent, publishers receive at least one new visitor from outside their network. Data across 12 journals showed a clear trend: higher marketing spend leads to more readership, with a substantial fraction of new visitors going on to explore additional articles and return in subsequent months.
How marketing spend affects journal readership →Smaller journals and new titles
TrendMD’s cross-publisher promotion is particularly effective for smaller journals and newer titles that may not yet have established readership. By distributing articles as sponsored links across the network, publishers can build awareness and readership for titles that might otherwise be difficult to discover.
Growing readership for smaller journals → How cross-publisher promotion works →“TrendMD was easy to install on our journal and blog sites and has resulted in high-quality referral traffic between BMJ journals as well as with external sites. Having visibility of the referrals and other metrics on our dashboard has proved very valuable.”
Getting started
Setting up TrendMD takes just a few steps. Once installed, the widget begins recommending content immediately.
Register your publication
Create your TrendMD account and add your journal or publication to the network.
Add the widget
Embed the TrendMD widget on your article pages with a simple code snippet.
How to embed the widget →Customize & monitor
Customize the widget’s appearance, feature specific articles, and track performance through your dashboard.
Widget customization options →Learn more
Explore the evidence and network behind TrendMD.
Case studies
See how publishers have grown readership, engagement, and revenue with TrendMD.
Read case studies →Publisher network
Explore the full network of 8,600+ scholarly publications and 5 million monthly readers.
View the network →Research
Review the peer-reviewed research behind TrendMD’s recommendation engine.
Read the research →