About
Aims and scope
BMJ Open Gastroenterology is an online-only, peer-reviewed, open access gastroenterology journal, dedicated to publishing high-quality medical research from all disciplines and therapeutic areas of gastroenterology and hepatology. It is the open access companion journal of Gut and is co-owned by the British Society of Gastroenterology.
The journal publishes all research study types, from study protocols to phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small or specialist studies. Publishing procedures are built around continuous publication, publishing research online as soon as the article is ready.
Ownership
BMJ Open Gastroenterology is co-owned by the British Society of Gastroenterology and BMJ.
Editorial Board
For information about the BMJ Open Gastroenterology editorial team and the Editor-in-Chief Professor Joseph Lim, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Journal information
| Publication Model | Open access |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Continuous |
| Launch date | 2014 |
| Digital Archives | Portico, LOCKSS |
| Indexed by | Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, Embase (Excerpta Medica), DOAJ, Google Scholar |
| Peer review model | Single blind; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author |
| Online ISSN | 2054-4774 |
Journal Statistics (2020)
Acceptance rate: 44%
Speed
Days to first decision: 13 days
Days from acceptance to publication: 19 days
Impact
Scimago Journal rank (SJR): 0.96
Citescore: 3.9
Reach
2020 total content accesses: 114,420
2020 total Altmetric mentions: 281
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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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.