The most read article in November was Arroll and Howard’s newly published prospective study on therapeutic approaches to myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome. The second most read was also a new study, by Liao and colleagues, on the content and quality of information in online advertisements for female genital cosmetic surgery. Rank Author(s) Title 1 Arroll […]
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Most read articles in October
The most read article in October was Laursen and colleagues’ newly published study of the effects of exercise volume and intensity upon the risk of metabolic syndrome. For the second month running, Ekström et al‘s cohort study of the effectiveness of metformin was second most read and Kripke et al‘s study of hypnotics and mortality remains the […]
Most reads articles in September
The most read article in September was Aston and colleagues’ modelling study of meat consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. Ekström et al‘s cohort study of the effectiveness of metformin was the second most read and Taylor et al‘s study of the impact of substance misuse remains highly read in third place. Click on […]
Most read articles in August
The most read article in August was Taylor and colleagues’ analysis of the relative risk of harm associated with substance misuse, which was originally published at the end of July. Click on the titles to read the articles in full. Rank Author(s) Title 1 Taylor et al Quantifying the RR of harm to self and […]
Most read articles in July
The most read article in July was Heneghan and colleagues’ analysis of sports performance products, which received widespread press attention and was also accompanied by a BBC Panorama special. The second most read paper, Katzmarzyk and Lee’s life table analysis of life expectancy and sedentary behaviour, also received large amounts of press coverage both in […]
BMJ Open in the news
BMJ Open research has made the news again. The paper by Peter T Katzmarzyk (Pennington Biomedical Research Center) and I-Min Lee (Harvard) on the impact of sitting and television viewing on life expectancy in the USA has received widespread coverage, from the BBC in the UK, through numerous US news outlets, and as far as […]
Most read articles in June
The most read article in June was once again Kripke and colleagues’ paper on the association between hypnotic use and mortality. Both the second and third most read papers – Söder et al‘s analysis on the association between dental plaque and mortality in Sweden and Nichols et al‘s modelling study on optimal alcohol intake – received […]
Most read articles in May
The most read article in May was Kripke and colleagues’ analysis of the association between hypnotics and mortality. Woz et al‘s analysis of post-discharge hospital utilisation, originally published in April, was the second most popular and the newly published paper by Wiberg et al on the relationship between cognitive performance and post-stroke mortality was the third […]
Most read articles in April
The most read article in April was – for the third month running – Kripke and colleagues’ analysis of the association between hypnotics and mortality. Second and third most read were Townsend and Pitchford’s study of the impact of weaning style on food preferences and Hoddinott et al‘s qualitative study of infant feeding. Six of […]
Most read articles in March
The most read article in March was Kripke et al‘s study of the association between hypnotics and mortality, originally published at the end of February. In second and third place are two very different articles both relating to infant feeding. Belghiti et al‘s study of the association between oxytocin and postpartum haemorrhage, which was originally […]