BMJ Open

BMJ Open is an online, open access journal, dedicated to publishing medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas. The journal publishes all research study types, from study protocols to phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small, specialist studies, and negative studies. 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 pre-publication histories. Authors are asked to pay article-publishing charges on acceptance; the ability to pay does not influence editorial decisions. All papers are included in MEDLINE/PubMed and Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). BMJ Open is a medical journal. We consider papers addressing research questions in clinical medicine, public health and epidemiology. We also welcome studies in health services research, health economics, surgery, qualitative research, research methods, medical education, medical publishing and any other field that directly addresses patient outcomes or the practice and delivery of healthcare.Our focus is on research that is relevant to patients and clinicians. We do not publish studies conducted in animals, laboratory studies not linked to patient outcomes, papers reporting solely physiological or biomechanical results from healthy participants, anatomy, cell biology or non-clinical psychology.All research study types are considered, from study protocols through phase I trials to meta-analyses. This includes specialist studies and studies reporting negative results. Case reports should be submitted to BMJ Case Reports.

BMJ Open是一个在线的、开放获取的杂志，致力于出版来自所有学科和治疗领域的医学研究。该杂志出版了所有的研究类型，从研究协议到第一阶段试验到荟萃分析，包括小型、专家研究和负面研究。出版程序是建立在完全开放的同行评审和持续出版的基础上的，一旦文章准备好，就在网上出版研究。BMJ Open的目标是通过出版审稿人报告和以前版本的手稿作为出版前的历史记录，提高出版过程的透明度。接受稿件后，作者需支付稿费;支付能力并不影响编辑的决定。所有的论文都包含在MEDLINE/PubMed和科学引文索引扩展(Web of Science)中。BMJ Open是一本医学杂志。我们考虑在临床医学，公共卫生和流行病学研究问题的论文。我们也欢迎在卫生服务研究、卫生经济学、外科、定性研究、研究方法、医学教育、医学出版和任何其他直接涉及患者结局或医疗实践和医疗服务提供的领域开展研究。我们的重点是与患者和临床医生相关的研究。我们不发表在动物身上进行的研究、与患者结果无关的实验室研究、仅报道健康参与者的生理或生物力学结果的论文、解剖学、细胞生物学或非临床心理学。所有的研究类型都被考虑在内，从研究协议到第一阶段的试验再到荟萃分析。这包括专家研究和报告负面结果的研究。病例报告应提交给BMJ病例报告。