February’s Top 10 Most Read includes a selection of new entries, including a time-series analysis on the impact of economic austerity on suicide in Greece written by Branas et al and Hysing et al.’s population-based study on sleep and the use of electronic devices. Articles which are still proving to be popular include Petrilli et al.’s article on the role […]
BMJ Open’s fourth anniversary
Today is the fourth anniversary of BMJ Open publishing its first papers. Since 23 February 2011 we have published over 3000 open access papers with our open peer review process. One hundred of these papers have accompanying datasets in the Dryad data repository. We are still one of very few medical journals integrated with Dryad […]
Thank you to our reviewers – 2014
After a very busy year at BMJ Open, in which over 1100 papers were published, we would like to say a big thank you to all of our reviewers who contributed in 2014. All that we achieved last year would not have been possible without the help of the many referees who gave thorough and […]
Urban cycling, physician attire and the impact of complaints on Doctors: Most Read Articles in January
Several new papers made the January top 10 most read, including the cross-sectional survey by Bourne et al., on the impact of complaints on doctor’s health and psychological welfare. We also had a popular analysis of cycling injuries and the relationship with personal, trip, route and crash characteristics by Cripton et al. Petrelli et al.‘s […]
UCL Qualitative Health Research Symposium 2015
The UCL Division of Psychiatry’s Qualitative Researchers Working Group is working together with the UCL Department of Applied Health Research and the UCL Health Behaviour Research Centre on a one day symposium to discuss questions, and to generate constructive commentary on the contributions that qualitative inquiry can make to understandings of health, illness and care. […]
2014: A year in review
2014 proved to be a successful and fruitful year for BMJ Open. We received over 2500 submissions, compared to just over 2000 in 2013. We published over 1100 papers. BMJ Open has always welcomed research article and protocol submissions, and in 2014, we expanded our scope to include cohort profiles. In mid year, Thomson Reuters […]
Cumulative daily screen time linked to teen sleep problems
Time to update recommendations on healthy use of electronic devices, say researchers The longer a teen spends on screen time throughout the day before going to bed, the worse quality sleep s/he is likely to have, suggests a large study published in BMJ Open. It’s time to update the recommendations on the healthy use of […]
Sharp and sustained rise in suicides in Greece linked to austerity measures
Give greater weight to mental health fall-out of future policies, urge researchers Suicides in Greece reached a 30 year all-time high in 2012, with a sustained upward trend starting in June 2011, the month that the government introduced further austerity measures to help pay down the country’s debts, reveals a 30 year study, published in […]
Falls in blood pressure and cholesterol have saved 20,000+ lives in England
Impact of statins greatest among most affluent but drugs only accounted for 14% of total fall in deaths Falls in blood pressure and total cholesterol staved off more than 20,000 deaths from coronary heart disease in England between 2000 and 2007, shows a mathematical analysis published in BMJ Open. The impact of statins was greatest […]
UK doctors facing complaints dogged by severe depression and suicidal thoughts
UK doctors subject to complaints procedures are at significant risk of becoming severely depressed and suicidal, reveals research published in the online journal BMJ Open. Those referred to the UK professional regulator, the General Medical Council (GMC), seem to be most at risk of mental ill health, the findings suggest. The researchers base their findings […]