BMJ Open

BMJ Open
DisciplineMedicine
LanguageEnglish
Edited byAdrian Aldcroft
Publication details
History2011–present
Publisher
FrequencyContinuous
Yes
LicenseCC BY or CC BY-NC
2.9 (2022)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4BMJ Open
Indexing
ISSN2044-6055
OCLC no.704594764
Links

BMJ Open is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal that is dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas.[1] It is published by BMJ and considers all research study types, from protocols through phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small, specialist studies, and negative studies.[1]

Publishing procedures are built around fully open peer review and continuous publication, publishing research online as soon as the article is ready. BMJ Open aims to promote transparency in the publication process by publishing reviewer reports and previous versions of manuscripts as prepublication histories. The editor-in-chief is Adrian Aldcroft.[2]

Abstracting and indexing

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Since 2014 the journal is included in the Index Medicus and in MEDLINE.[3] The journal is also abstracted and indexed in Scopus,[4] the Science Citation Index Expanded.,[5] PubMed Central, Embase (Excerpta Medica), DOAJ and Google Scholar. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 2.9.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "About | BMJ Open". BMJ Open. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  2. ^ "Editorial Board". BMJ Open. Retrieved 2018-08-10.
  3. ^ "BMJ open. - NLM Catalog - NCBI".
  4. ^ "Scopus title list". Elsevier. Archived from the original (Microsoft Excel) on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
  5. ^ "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 2017-09-26. Retrieved 2014-05-12.
  6. ^ "BMJ Open". 2022 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate. 2023.
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