About
Time to first decision with review
91*Time from acceptance to publication
16*Citescore
4.7Citescore rank
44/1402021 content views
369,5362021 Altmetric mentions
2,707Aims and scope
BMJ Open Respiratory Research is a peer-reviewed, open access journal publishing respiratory and critical care medicine. It is the open access companion journal to Thorax and co-owned by the British Thoracic Society and BMJ. The journal focuses on robustness of methodology and scientific rigour with less emphasis on novelty or perceived impact.
BMJ Open Respiratory Research operates a rapid review process, with continuous publication online, ensuring timely, up-to-date research is available worldwide.
The journal publishes review articles and all research study types:
- Basic science including laboratory based experiments and animal models
- Pilot studies or proof of concept
- Observational studies
- Study protocols
- Registries
- Clinical trials from phase I to multicentre randomised clinical trials
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Editorial Board
For information about the BMJ Open Respiratory Research Editors-in-Chief Dr Stephen Chapman and Dr Matt Wise and their editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page
Ownership
BMJ Open Respiratory Research is co-owned by the British Thoracic Society and BMJ.
Journal information
| Publication Model | Open access |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Continuous |
| Launch date | 2013 |
| Digital Archives | Portico, LOCKSS |
| Indexed by | Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index-Expanded, Emerging Sources Citation Index, MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central, Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), DOAJ, Google Scholar |
| Peer Review Model | Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author |
| ISSN (online) | 2052-4439 |
Journal Statistics (2021)
Acceptance rate: 48%
Speed
Time to first decision without review (median): 7 days
Time to first decision with review (median) : 91 days
Time from acceptance to publication (median): 16 days
Impact
Impact Factor category: Respiratory System
Impact factor (JCR): 5.054
Impact Factor rank: 22/66
5 year Impact Factor: 4.64
Journal Citation Indicator (JCI): 0.96
Eigenfactor Score: 0.00441
Citescore: 4.7
Citescore rank: 44/140
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 1.333
Reach
2021 total content views: 369,536
2021 total Altmetric mentions: 2,707
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
Contact information
For all contact information please refer to the Contact Us page.
For authors
Please refer to the Instructions for Authors.
For reviewers
Please refer to the Instructions for Reviewers.
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Affiliations
BMJ Open Respiratory Research is an official journal of the British Thoracic Society.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.
BMJ is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.