I like to track several different parameters on different markets (especially periodical markets) to guage their relative visibility. One of the things I follow is the frequency with which stories from that market appear in the “honorable mentions” appendix of Gardner Dozois’s Year’s Best Science Fiction collection. There are a few hundred stories in that Appendix, but stories appear more frequently from some markets than from others.
Since YBSF for 2007 came out this month, I just now completed my tally. Note that I only counted them once, so I may easily be off by one or two, and that I did not include (what I thought were) anthologies (except for Writers of the Future, which is a lot like a periodical in some ways).
| Asimovs | 55 |
| F&SF | 37 |
| Subterranean | 24 |
| Analog | 20 |
| Jim Baen’s Universe | 18 |
| Interzone | 15 |
| Strange Horizons | 15 |
| Clarksworld | 13 |
| Helix | 13 |
| Postscripts | 11 |
| Realms of Fantasy | 9 |
| Tesseracts | 8 |
| Fantasy Magazine | 6 |
| Lone Star Stories | 6 |
| OSC’s Int Med Show | 6 |
| Aeon | 5 |
| Black Static | 4 |
| Cosmos | 4 |
| Electric Velocipede | 4 |
| On Spec | 4 |
| Weird Tales | 4 |
| Abyss & Apex | 3 |
| Coyote Wild | 3 |
| Darker Matter | 3 |
| Flurb | 3 |
| Flytrap | 3 |
| Ideomancer | 3 |
| Shimmer | 3 |
| Writers of the Future | 3 |
| Lady Churchill’s RW | 2 |
| MIT Technology Review | 2 |
| Talebones | 2 |
| Black Gate | 1 |
| Cricket | 1 |
| Infinite Matrix | 1 |
| Nature Physics | 1 |
| Night Lands | 1 |
| Paradox | 1 |
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Kenneth Schneyer 
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