BMJ Open


BMJ Open is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal that was established in 2011. It is published by BMJ and considers papers addressing research questions in clinical medicine, public health and epidemiology. The editor-in-chief is Adrian Aldcroft.

Abstracting and indexing

Since 2014 the journal is included in the Index Medicus and in MEDLINE.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 2.413.