 Reasons to submit your research to
BioMed Central’s journals
- Open access
Research articles published in BioMed Central’s journals are freely available online to the entire global biomedical community. They are available via BioMed Central's website, the National Institutes of Health’s electronic depository of full text articles, PubMed Central, as well as in many other major international archives. In many of our journals, most of the non-research content is also Open Access.
- Rapid publication
Online submission, electronic peer review and production make the process of publishing your article simple and efficient.
- Quality, reputation and high standard of peer review
All of BioMed Central's journals have a high standard of peer review. The precise form of peer review is left to those responsible for editorial control of the individual journal. In some cases, including all the medical journals in the BMC-series, reviewers are asked to sign their reviews and the pre-publication history of each manuscript (submitted versions, reviewers' reports, authors' responses) is posted on the web with the published article. To read the individual peer review policy for a particular journal please click here.
All of BioMed Central’s journals boast strong Editorial Boards who help with policy and decision-making, and in some cases help with choosing referees and reviewing manuscripts.
- Impact Factors and Thomson Scientific (ISI) citation tracking
Many of BioMed Central's journals have been accepted by Thomson Scientific (ISI) for citation tracking and inclusion in Web of Science, and already have Impact Factors or will have Impact Factors within the next two years.
- High visibility and international readership in your field
BioMed Central’s Open Access policy ensures high visibility and maximum exposure for your work - anyone with online access can read your article. Top-quality articles in BioMed Central's journals are accessed thousands of times over the course of a month. 450,000 BioMed Central registered users have signed up for regular email alerts. Users from all over the world access 5 million page views per month across BioMed Central’s 193 Open Access journals.
- Included in PubMed, Google and all major bibliographic databases
All articles published in BioMed Central journals are included in PubMed and all major bibliographic databases so that your work can be found easily and cited by researchers and clinicians around the world.
- You retain copyright, licensing the article under a Creative Commons license
This means that your article can be freely redistributed and reused by yourself and others as long as the article is correctly attributed. For example, your published article can be posted on your personal or institutional homepage, e-mailed to friends and colleagues, printed and sent to as many people as you wish, archived in a collection, distributed on CD-ROM, included in coursepacks, quoted in the press, translated and further distributed as often and widely as possible.
- No space constraints
Publishing online means unlimited space for figures, extensive data and video footage.
- Promotion of your articles
Articles are widely promoted through e-mail updates, table of contents, e-mail alerts, postings on BioMed Central’s homepage, printed abstract books mailed to academics and press releases to the general and scientific press - all resulting in increasing levels of accesses for each article. BioMed Central also attends many major scientific conferences to bring your work to the attention of biomedical professionals in your field. You can also promote your article via your own e-mail lists, online links, listserves, distribution at conferences and any other innovative techniques you wish to adopt.
- From broad to specialist interest journals
Whether you wish to publish in a broad interest or specialist interest journal, BioMed Central offers an Open Access journal to suit your paper. For our full list of journals visit our Journals A-Z or Journals by Subject pages.
- Don't take our word for it!
BioMed Central aims to provide the highest possible standard of service to authors. See some comments from authors who have published their articles in BioMed Central's journals.
- Join the leaders
See who has already embraced Open Access publishing on our pioneering authors pages, including an index of everyone who has published their research in BioMed Central's journals. Why not publish your next article with us?
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