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Research: Implementing preventive care into primary care

Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis show that multicomponent interventions may improve implementation of preventive care in primary care. Combination of these strategies with population-level interventions could maximise health benefits.

Research: A single behavioural intervention reduce intrusive trauma memories in healthcare workers

A digitally delivered and scalable imagery-competing task intervention reduces intrusive memories in healthcare workers exposed to work-related trauma during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Call for papers: Psychoactives: Recreational drugs repurposed as novel therapies

We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of psychoactives.

Call for papers: Biodefense and antimicrobial resistance

We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of biodefense and antimicrobial resistance.

Call for papers: Mpox: Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment

We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers on the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of mpox.

Call for papers: Autoimmune disorders

We are pleased to welcome papers that will have advance our pathophysiological understanding, diagnosis and treatment of Autoimmune disorders.

Call for papers: Human papillomavirus

We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of human papillomavirus (HPV).

Call for papers: Regenerative medicine

We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of regenerative medicine.

Call for papers: Food environments and health

We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of food environments and heath.

Call for papers: Cancer prevention

We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of Cancer prevention.

Call for Papers: Endometriosis

We are calling for submissions to our Collection on Endometriosis: current knowledge and future directions. 

New Editorial Board Members Needed

BMC Medicine is recruiting new Editorial Board Members. To increase our engagement with the Editorial Board and community at large, we are recruiting Editorial Board Members to be part of a collaborative editorial model whereby Editorial Board Members assess manuscripts in their area of expertise alongside the in-house Editorial team. To apply, click here.

Peer Review Taxonomy

This journal is participating in a pilot of NISO/STM's Working Group on Peer Review Taxonomy, to identify and standardize definitions and terminology in peer review practices in order to make the peer review process for articles and journals more transparent. Further information on the pilot is available here.

The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

  • Identity transparency: Single anonymized
  • Reviewer interacts with: Editor
  • Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

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Highlight: Portable Peer-Review

New Content ItemTo reduce time spent on serial submissions and iterative reviewing, BMC Medicine offers to consider manuscripts on the basis of reviews received at other journals. We also support transfers of reviews obtained at BMC Medicine to other journals, including those outside of BMC and Springer Nature. Learn more from our Portable Reviews page.

Supporting SDG3: Good Health and Well-Being

New Content ItemBMC Medicine is committed to playing a role in advancing progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG3, by supporting researchers in disseminating their related work and showcasing this to assist policy-makers, governments and humanitarian organizations in making research-backed decisions to advance the international well-being agenda. Read more here

Aims and scope

BMC Medicine is the flagship medical journal of the BMC series. An open access, transparent peer-reviewed general medical journal, BMC Medicine publishes outstanding and influential research in all areas of clinical practice, translational medicine, medical and health advances, public health, global health, policy, and general topics of interest to the biomedical and sociomedical professional communities. We also publish stimulating debates and reviews as well as unique forum articles and concise tutorials. 

Articles

Most accessed (recent)

Correspondence article | 19 August 2020
Considerations for target oxygen saturation in COVID-19 patients: are we under-shooting?
Niraj Shenoy et al.
 

Correspondence article | 15 July 2020
New insights into genetic susceptibility of COVID-19: an ACE2 and TMPRSS2 polymorphism analysis
Yuan Hou​​​​​​​ et al.

Opinion article | 15 July 2020
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and COVID-19: an overlooked female patient population at potentially higher risk during the COVID-19 pandemic
Ioannis Kyrou​​​​​​​ et al.

Editorial | 14 July 2020
Systems all the way down: embracing complexity in mental health research
Eiko I. Fried and Donald J. Robinaugh


Research | 03 June 2020
Real-time monitoring the transmission potential of COVID-19 in Singapore, March 2020
Amna Tariq et al.

Research article | 07 May 2020
Quantifying the impact of physical distance measures on the transmission of COVID-19 in the UK​​​​​​​
Christopher I. Jarvis​​​​​​​ et al.

Research article | 06 May 2020
A single-center, retrospective study of COVID-19 features in children: a descriptive investigation
Huijing Ma et al.

Source: Web of Science

Correspondence | 24 March 2010
CONSORT 2010 Statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials
Kenneth F Schulz, Douglas G Altman and David Moher

Debate | 14 May 2013
Toward the future of psychiatric diagnosis: the seven pillars of RDoC
Bruce N Cuthbert and Thomas R Insel

Research Article | 26 December 2006
Collagen reorganization at the tumor-stromal interface facilitates local invasion
Paolo P Provenzano, Kevin W Eliceiri, Jay M Campbell, David R Inman, John G White and Patricia J Keely

Research Article | 24 June 2008
miR-124 and miR-137 inhibit proliferation of glioblastoma multiforme cells and induce differentiation of brain tumor stem cells
Joachim Silber, Daniel A Lim, Claudia Petritsch, Anders I Persson, Alika K Maunakea, Mamie Yu, Scott R Vandenberg, David G Ginzinger, C David James, Joseph F Costello, Gabriele Bergers, William A Weiss, Arturo Alvarez-Buylla and J Graeme Hodgson

Research Article | 26 July 2011
Cross-national epidemiology of DSM-IV major depressive episode
Evelyn Bromet, Laura Helena Andrade, Irving Hwang, Nancy A Sampson, Jordi Alonso, Giovanni de Girolamo, Ron de Graaf, Koen Demyttenaere, Chiyi Hu, Noboru Iwata, Aimee N Karam, Jagdish Kaur, Stanislav Kostyuchenko, Jean-Pierre Lépine, Daphna Levinson, Herbert Matschinger, Maria Elena Medina Mora, Mark Oakley Browne, Jose Posada-Villa, Maria Carmen Viana, David R Williams and Ronald C Kessler

Source: Web of Science

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Call for papers

Psychoactives: Recreational drugs repurposed as novel therapies
We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of psychoactives

Biodefense and antimicrobial resistance
We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of biodefense and antimicrobial resistance

Mpox: Epidemiology, prevention, and treatment
We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of mpox.

Autoimmune disorders
We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of autoimmune disorders.

Human papillomavirus
We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of human papillomavirus (HPV).

Regenerative medicine
We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of regenerative medicine.

Food environments and health
We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of food environments and their impact on public health.

Cancer prevention
We are pleased to launch this new article collection which will welcome papers that have an impact on our understanding of cancer prevention.

Endometriosis
We are calling for submissions to our Collection on Endometriosis: current knowledge and future directions. Of particular interest are immunity and microbiome studies.

Article collections

Dementia prevention and therapies
Guest Editors: Shanquan Chen, Feng Sha and Zhirong Yang

Neurodevelopmental disorders
Guest Editors: Michael Absoud, Victoria Cosgrove and Kirsty Donald

Modelling the effects of structural interventions and social enablers on HIV incidence and mortality in sub-Saharan African countries
Guest Editors: Charles Birungi, Timothy Hallett and Anne Stangl

Pain in Vulnerable Groups
Guest Editors: Line Iden Berge, Dr. Emily Harrop, Bettina S. Husebø, Christina Liossi and Monica Patrascu

Paediatric Obesity and Diabetes
Guest Editors: May Ng and Pooja Sachdev

See all article collections here.

Nature Communitites: Behind the Paper

We are now collaborating with Nature Communities, allowing authors to share experiences designing the study and collecting data by writing their own blog-style post on the paper. 


Read the latest Behind the Paper article here:


Obesity-related colorectal cancer risk differs for men and women

https://go.nature.com/3akek2l

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