The BMJ
| The BMJ: British Medical Journal | |
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| description | Trade journal |
| Area of Expertise | Human medicine |
| language | English |
| publishing company | BMJ Group ( UK ) |
| Headquarters | London |
| First edition | 1840 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Impact Factor | 19,967 (2015) |
| Editor-in-chief | Fiona Godlee |
| editor | British Medical Association |
| Web link | www.bmj.com/theBMJ |
| ISSN (print) | 0959-8138 |
| ISSN (online) | 1756-1833 |
| CODEN | DXRA5 |
The BMJ (before 1988 British Medical Journal , until July 1, 2014 BMJ ) is a medical scientific journal published by BMJ Group (owned by the British Medical Association ) in London . It has been published weekly in English since 1840 (at the time as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal ). In 2013, the circulation was just under 122,000 copies. According to the ISI Web of Knowledge , the impact factor in 2015 was 19.967, which puts the journal in fourth place in the general and internal medicine category (out of 154 journals).
Content and direction
The journal publishes essays on evidence-based medicine , literary reviews as well as news on medical research and the labor market and much more. Furthermore, special editions are published on certain topics, such as the health system in Africa.
Each issue is available both online and on paper for a fee. The printed edition is available in four different ways:
- General Practice (General Practice)
- Clinical Research (Hospital Medicine)
- International edition (international)
- Compact Edition (former members)
Others
In 2020, due to inadequate climate protection efforts , the magazine decided to join the divestment movement and no longer accept advertisements for corporations that promote fossil fuels or publish studies that were (co) financed by companies in the sector. The magazine has been doing the same with the tobacco industry for a long time . Background are u. a. the efforts of various industries to obscure, distort, or deny any scientific evidence relating to the harmfulness of their products .
Individual evidence
- ^ British Medical Journal In: bioxbio.com, accessed May 26, 2018.
- ↑ Editorial staff
- ↑ BMJ - about (Engl.)
- ^ About the journal
- ↑ Kamran Abbasi, Fiona Godlee: Investing in humanity: The BMJ's divestment campaign . In: The BMJ . tape 368 , 2020, doi : 10.1136 / bmj.m167 .
Web links
- The BMJ (English)
- The British Medical Association (English)