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Aims 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: Emerging Sources Citation Index, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, Scopus, Embase (Exerpta Medica), DOAJ, Google Scholar |
| Peer Review Model | Single blind; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author |
| ISSN (online) | 2052-4439 |
Journal Statistics (2020)
Acceptance rate: 50%
Speed
Days to first decision: 31 days
Days from acceptance to publication: 22 days
Impact
Scimago Journal rank (SJR): 1.31
Citescore: 3.9
Reach
2020 total content accesses: 281,270
2020 total Altmetric mentions: 2,051
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.
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Contact information
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Please refer to the Instructions for Authors.
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.