Open Access
Open access

BMJ Open

BMJ
BMJ
ISSN: 20446055
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q1
Impact factor
2.4
SJR
0.971
CiteScore
4.4
Categories
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Areas
Medicine
Years of issue
2011-2025
journal names
BMJ Open
Publications
37 393
Citations
520 350
h-index
173
Publications
21 438
Citations
404 736
Top-3 citing journals
BMJ Open
BMJ Open (18893 citations)
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (12046 citations)
Top-3 organizations
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (1265 publications)
University College London
University College London (1219 publications)
University of Sydney
University of Sydney (1006 publications)
University of Oxford
University of Oxford (635 publications)
University College London
University College London (603 publications)
Top-3 countries
United Kingdom (10149 publications)
USA (8010 publications)
China (4472 publications)
United Kingdom (5022 publications)
USA (4600 publications)
China (2892 publications)

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BMJ Open
18893 citations, 3.63%
PLoS ONE
12046 citations, 2.31%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
9447 citations, 1.82%
BMC Public Health
5619 citations, 1.08%
BMC Health Services Research
4558 citations, 0.88%
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4382 citations, 0.84%
Frontiers in Public Health
4233 citations, 0.81%
Nutrients
3423 citations, 0.66%
Journal of Clinical Medicine
2973 citations, 0.57%
Cureus
2433 citations, 0.47%
Healthcare
2261 citations, 0.43%
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
2119 citations, 0.41%
Journal of Medical Internet Research
2003 citations, 0.38%
Medicine (United States)
1822 citations, 0.35%
Trials
1765 citations, 0.34%
BMC Geriatrics
1674 citations, 0.32%
Frontiers in Psychiatry
1650 citations, 0.32%
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
1594 citations, 0.31%
Frontiers in Psychology
1486 citations, 0.29%
BMJ
1476 citations, 0.28%
Frontiers in Medicine
1332 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Affective Disorders
1227 citations, 0.24%
JAMA network open
1222 citations, 0.23%
International Journal of Molecular Sciences
1163 citations, 0.22%
BMC Medical Education
1132 citations, 0.22%
Health Expectations
1118 citations, 0.21%
PLOS Global Public Health
1075 citations, 0.21%
Frontiers in Pharmacology
1037 citations, 0.2%
Cancers
1013 citations, 0.19%
F1000Research
1004 citations, 0.19%
Heliyon
1000 citations, 0.19%
BMC Psychiatry
993 citations, 0.19%
Social Science and Medicine
992 citations, 0.19%
Disability and Rehabilitation
972 citations, 0.19%
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology
948 citations, 0.18%
JMIR Research Protocols
947 citations, 0.18%
Frontiers in Neurology
904 citations, 0.17%
BMJ Global Health
904 citations, 0.17%
BMC Infectious Diseases
860 citations, 0.17%
BMC Medicine
829 citations, 0.16%
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
816 citations, 0.16%
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768 citations, 0.15%
British Journal of General Practice
756 citations, 0.15%
Systematic Reviews
753 citations, 0.14%
Vaccine
751 citations, 0.14%
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742 citations, 0.14%
Children
738 citations, 0.14%
Patient Education and Counseling
727 citations, 0.14%
The Lancet
716 citations, 0.14%
Frontiers in Nutrition
709 citations, 0.14%
BMC Primary Care
701 citations, 0.13%
Frontiers in Pediatrics
692 citations, 0.13%
JMIR Formative Research
692 citations, 0.13%
Frontiers in Immunology
681 citations, 0.13%
Pilot and Feasibility Studies
672 citations, 0.13%
Journal of the American Heart Association
664 citations, 0.13%
Supportive Care in Cancer
642 citations, 0.12%
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636 citations, 0.12%
BMC Nursing
630 citations, 0.12%
BMC Family Practice
624 citations, 0.12%
International Journal for Equity in Health
619 citations, 0.12%
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
610 citations, 0.12%
Medicina
606 citations, 0.12%
Public Health Nutrition
603 citations, 0.12%
Diagnostics
603 citations, 0.12%
BMC Pediatrics
601 citations, 0.12%
PLoS Medicine
595 citations, 0.11%
JMIR mHealth and uHealth
594 citations, 0.11%
EClinicalMedicine
587 citations, 0.11%
Research in Social and Administrative Pharmacy
582 citations, 0.11%
BMC Women's Health
574 citations, 0.11%
Frontiers in Oncology
569 citations, 0.11%
Age and Ageing
566 citations, 0.11%
Public Health
563 citations, 0.11%
Antibiotics
561 citations, 0.11%
AIDS and Behavior
559 citations, 0.11%
Sustainability
558 citations, 0.11%
Environmental Research
553 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
548 citations, 0.11%
Journal of General Internal Medicine
543 citations, 0.1%
Preventive Medicine
538 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Personalized Medicine
523 citations, 0.1%
BMC Cancer
517 citations, 0.1%
BMJ Quality and Safety
509 citations, 0.1%
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association
505 citations, 0.1%
Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics
491 citations, 0.09%
Nicotine and Tobacco Research
472 citations, 0.09%
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467 citations, 0.09%
Implementation Science
463 citations, 0.09%
Clinical Infectious Diseases
461 citations, 0.09%
Health Research Policy and Systems
451 citations, 0.09%
Wellcome Open Research
451 citations, 0.09%
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447 citations, 0.09%
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446 citations, 0.09%
Science of the Total Environment
439 citations, 0.08%
Diabetic Medicine
433 citations, 0.08%
International Journal of Cardiology
432 citations, 0.08%
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
430 citations, 0.08%
Tobacco Control
428 citations, 0.08%
International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
426 citations, 0.08%
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Springer Nature
98159 citations, 18.86%
Elsevier
89423 citations, 17.19%
Wiley
42082 citations, 8.09%
MDPI
34845 citations, 6.7%
BMJ
30925 citations, 5.94%
Taylor & Francis
26295 citations, 5.05%
Frontiers Media S.A.
20093 citations, 3.86%
SAGE
18974 citations, 3.65%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
18258 citations, 3.51%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
14840 citations, 2.85%
Oxford University Press
14256 citations, 2.74%
JMIR Publications
9645 citations, 1.85%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
7501 citations, 1.44%
Cambridge University Press
5844 citations, 1.12%
American Medical Association (AMA)
2826 citations, 0.54%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
2707 citations, 0.52%
Hindawi Limited
2702 citations, 0.52%
Mary Ann Liebert
2431 citations, 0.47%
Mark Allen Group
2239 citations, 0.43%
Emerald
1999 citations, 0.38%
F1000 Research
1797 citations, 0.35%
Research Square Platform LLC
1594 citations, 0.31%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
1582 citations, 0.3%
SciELO
1416 citations, 0.27%
AME Publishing Company
1325 citations, 0.25%
Medknow
1251 citations, 0.24%
S. Karger AG
1164 citations, 0.22%
IOS Press
1157 citations, 0.22%
Royal College of General Practitioners
1111 citations, 0.21%
1076 citations, 0.21%
Walter de Gruyter
1071 citations, 0.21%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
1011 citations, 0.19%
Baishideng Publishing Group
906 citations, 0.17%
European Respiratory Society (ERS)
752 citations, 0.14%
IGI Global
711 citations, 0.14%
American Society for Nutrition
624 citations, 0.12%
American Academy of Pediatrics
593 citations, 0.11%
CSIRO Publishing
565 citations, 0.11%
British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery
530 citations, 0.1%
CMA Impact Inc.
527 citations, 0.1%
IntechOpen
525 citations, 0.1%
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
522 citations, 0.1%
American Diabetes Association
496 citations, 0.1%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
471 citations, 0.09%
AOSIS
465 citations, 0.09%
American Society for Microbiology
459 citations, 0.09%
PeerJ
456 citations, 0.09%
National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assessment
446 citations, 0.09%
Spandidos Publications
444 citations, 0.09%
National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
434 citations, 0.08%
Royal College of Psychiatrists
432 citations, 0.08%
Human Kinetics
422 citations, 0.08%
Media Sphere Publishing House
415 citations, 0.08%
RCNi
412 citations, 0.08%
American Thoracic Society
402 citations, 0.08%
The Endocrine Society
394 citations, 0.08%
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishing
361 citations, 0.07%
Massachusetts Medical Society
335 citations, 0.06%
SLACK
330 citations, 0.06%
IOP Publishing
323 citations, 0.06%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
322 citations, 0.06%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
320 citations, 0.06%
Hogrefe Publishing Group
271 citations, 0.05%
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
263 citations, 0.05%
Scientific Research Publishing
261 citations, 0.05%
American Physiological Society
254 citations, 0.05%
PAGEPress Publications
250 citations, 0.05%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
243 citations, 0.05%
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
230 citations, 0.04%
Annual Reviews
226 citations, 0.04%
XMLink
224 citations, 0.04%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
219 citations, 0.04%
Hans Publishers
215 citations, 0.04%