Celebrating Peer Review Week at BMC: How Peer Review can help uphold research integrity
Maintaining research integrity requires a whole community: from the beginning of the scientific process to the publication of the results, multiple actors – funders, researchers, institutions, publishers – are involved. In reality, no single group is solely responsible for upholding research to high standards and a variety of stakeholders need to remain vigilant. However, it is the last stage of the scientific process, the communication of scientific research, where robust peer review acts as one of the last gatekeepers for research integrity. Here we discuss how as open access BMC journals (part of Springer Na...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nicola Stead Tags: Biology Health Medical Evidence Medicine Open Access Publishing innovation open peer review peer review week publication misconduct Registered Reports results-free peer review Transparent peer review Source Type: blogs
BMC Global and Public Health: New journal to advance SDG research
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the monkeypox outbreak being declared a ‘public health emergency of international concern’ by the WHO, we as a pioneer in open access publishing and open science feel the urgency to provide a venue for high quality research advances in the global and public health fields. At BMC we already have a strong representation and excellent standing within the public health communities, especially owing to our largest OA title BMC Public Health and its engaged editors and editorial board. By launching this new selective journal, we aim to connect and support the global and public he...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - September 1, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Gerrit John Schuster Tags: Health Medicine Open Access Publishing BMC Global and Public Health BMC Public Health early career researchers monkeypox public health emergency of international concern Source Type: blogs
Why choose a BMC journal?
Our mission is to provide you with publishing options that align with your values
At BMC, we are dedicated to publishing the best open access journals across our portfolio of over 250 titles and are always striving to drive progress in biology, health sciences and medicine. With over 20 years of expertise in pioneering open access, you can trust our extensive experience to deliver high quality, impactful research and provide a supportive publishing experience for authors. And once your research is published, it will be available to anyone who wants to access it. This increases your work’s reach and visibility, and help...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - May 12, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Meredith LeMasurier Tags: Biology Health Medical Evidence Medicine Open Access Publishing Technology BMC BMC Digital Health BMC Series high quality research inclusive research inclusivity Source Type: blogs
Cognitive Dissonance in Peer Review
Professor Jim Reekers has started to notice that more reviewers are sending conflicting decision recommendations to the editor. In this blog post he considers why this might be.
As Editor in Chief of an emerging open access journal, I have started to notice that some papers, sent out for peer review, tend to evoke very contradictory opinions. Reviewers sending conflicting recommendations to the editor: reject versus accept, leaving out minor or major revisions. Of course this can happen, but this is not to be expected too often from objective peer-review, and I was urged by this observation to do some research.
Dichotomou...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - March 9, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jim Reekers Tags: Open Access Publishing CVIR Endovascular open peer review Source Type: blogs
Maximizing peer review efforts more important than ever
Peer review – with all its challenges – remains essential to the integrity and robustness of the editorial process. However, peer review takes time and effort, which should not be wasted, especially in the context of vital COVID-19 research that requires rapid dissemination.
Portable peer review
Following in the footsteps of their sister journals, Genome Biology and BMC Biology, Genome Medicine and BMC Medicine have adopted a portable peer review policy. This means that the journals are open to considering manuscripts on the basis of reviews received at other journals, including those outside of Springer Nature...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - August 27, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Arianne Heinrichs Tags: Open Access Publishing Source Type: blogs
New insights on antibiotics use on crops amongst smallholder farmers
Philip Taylor and Robert Reeder, research scientists at CABI, did not start out looking for trends in antibiotic use in crops. In fact, both Drs. Taylor and Reeder’s primary interest at the start of their study was to simply understand the general use of agrochemicals and other agents by smallholder farmers in lower and middle income countries (LMIC). What they found, however, as explained in their recently published article in CABI Agriculture and Bioscience, demonstrates how real-world data, drawn from community support networks, can unearth previously unknown uses of antibiotics which help protect the livelihoods of...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - August 10, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Dylan Parker Tags: Biology Developing World Uncategorized agriculture AMR antimicrobial resistance Source Type: blogs
BMC ’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic – we ’re here for you
We are living through unprecedented times. As a publisher whose portfolio covers most biomedical and health disciplines, many of our researchers may be on the front lines of understanding and responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath. We are here for you, whatever you are currently dealing with – both in your research and personal lives.
Accessing the latest COVID-19 research
BMC is a fully open access publisher and all our articles are immediately and permanently available for free under a creative commons license. Our publisher, Springer Nature is committed to supporting the global response to emerging ...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - May 5, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mithu Lucraft Tags: Open Access Publishing Technology covid-19 open data Source Type: blogs
Transparency, Openness and Peer Review
When BMC was founded 20 years ago, a lot was different. The open access (OA) movement was still in its infancy, the digital movement towards both the production of and engagement with content was just beginning to transform the way we work, and like many other systems and processes, peer review was adapting to changes brought on by online technologies. While much has changed since then what hasn’t changed is BMC’s commitment to the scholarly community and our progressive and transparent approach to publishing.
As the first OA publisher, BMC has been a pioneer in the publishing sector. Openness is one of our hallmar...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - May 4, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Maria Hodges Tags: Open Access Publishing Source Type: blogs
Open peer-review: time for a closer look
We have all experienced unfair or sometimes even hostile peer reviews. Papers which later proved to be a turning point in research have been rejected based on bad or politically motivated reviews. Also, the idea that reviewers never know who the authors of a manuscript are, and will therefore review unbiased, is an illusion, especially in small scientific communities. Via the trial registration, the references and meeting presentation, it is easy to identify the authors.
Peer review is for many scientists like a corvée or an obligation which serves their cv. There are excellent reviewers, but there are also those that wri...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - April 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jim Reekers Tags: Uncategorized open peer review Source Type: blogs
Never before has it been more exciting and important to be a neurologist
What are the current trends and hot topics in neurology?
The increasing insights into the genetics and molecular bases of neurological disorders open new perspectives for specific and personalized treatments. This is evidenced most dramatically by the antisense therapy for spinal muscular atrophy. Promising neurological research currently targets neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Duchenne muscular atrophy, or Huntington’s disease. Likewise, brain-machine interfaces and neuroprosthetics offer huge potential. Never before has it been more important and more exciting to...
Source: BioMed Central Blog - December 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Victoria Hentschke Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
