About
Acceptance rate:
61%
Time from acceptance to publication:
19 days*
Impact Factor:
1.3
2023 Total content views:
518,615
Aims and scope
BMJ Open Quality is dedicated to publishing high quality, peer reviewed healthcare improvement work. Articles covering original research, local, national and international QI projects, value-based healthcare improvement initiatives and educational improvement work are all considered.
BMJ Open Quality uses continuous publication online, to ensure timely, up-to-date knowledge is available worldwide. The journal adheres to a rigorous and transparent peer review process and papers are considered on the basis of methodological soundness rather than priority or novelty.
BMJ Open Quality is the open access companion journal to BMJ Quality & Safety. The journal adheres to the highest possible industry standards concerning publication ethics.
Our website provides resources to support you in your quality improvement work such as templates to help you run and write up quality improvement projects.
Ownership
BMJ Open Quality is wholly-owned by the BMJ Publishing Group.
Editorial Board
For information about the BMJ Open Quality editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Journal information
Publication model
Open access
Frequency
Continuous
Launch date BMJ Open Quality
2017
Launch date BMJ QIR
2012
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: 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
Online ISSN
2399-6641
Journal Statistics 2024
Acceptance rate: 61%
Speed
Time to first decision with review: 76 days (median)
Time to first decision without review: 9 days (median)
Time from acceptance to publication: 19 days (median)
Impact
Impact Factor: 1.3
Citescore: 2.2
Citescore rank: 187/310
Eigenfactor Score:0.0039
Scimago Journal Rank (SJR): 0.559
Reach
2023 total content views: 518,615
2023 total Altmetric mentions: 788
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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Affiliations
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.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
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.