12 Facts About BMJ

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BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, published by the trade union the British Medical Association .

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The journal is published by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, a subsidiary of the British Medical Association .

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The editor-in-chief of The BMJ is Kamran Abbasi, who was appointed in January 2022.

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BMJ has an open peer review system, wherein authors are told who reviewed their manuscript.

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At the beginning of February 2021 the BMJ introduced a charge of £299 for publishing obituaries.

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BMJ publishes most e-letters to the journal on its Web site under the heading Rapid Responses, organised as a fully moderated Internet forum.

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BMJ is included in the major indexes PubMed, MEDLINE, EBSCO, and the Science Citation Index.

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BMJ went fully online in 1995 and archived all its issues on the World Wide Web.

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From 1999, all content of The BMJ was freely available online; however, in 2006 this changed to a subscription model.

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The BMJ allows complete free access for visitors from economically disadvantaged countries as part of the HINARI initiative.

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In October 2008 The BMJ announced that it would become an open access journal for research articles.

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BMJ is principally an online journal, and only the website carries the full text content of every article.

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