The BMJ is a weekly peer-reviewed medical trade journal, published by the trade union the British Medical Association (BMA). The BMJ has editorial freedom from the BMA. It is one of the world's oldest general medical journals. Originally called the British Medical Journal, the title was officially shortened to BMJ in 1988, and then changed to The BMJ in 2014. The journal is published by BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, a subsidiary of the British Medical Association (BMA). The editor-in-chief of The BMJ is Fiona Godlee, who was appointed in February 2005.
| Discipline | Medicine |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Fiona Godlee |
| Publication details | |
Former name(s) | Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, British Medical Journal, BMJ |
| History | 1840–present |
| Publisher | BMA (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Weekly |
Open access | Immediate, research articles only |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License |
Impact factor | 39.890 (2020) |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | BMJ |
| Indexing | |
| CODEN | DXRA5 |
| ISSN | 0959-8138 (print) |
Indexing and citations
The BMJ is included in the major indexes PubMed, MEDLINE, EBSCO, and the Science Citation Index. The journal has long criticised the misuse of the impact factor to award grants and recruit researchers by academic institutions.
The five journals that as of 2008 have cited The BMJ most often are (in order of descending citation frequency) The BMJ, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, The Lancet, BMC Public Health, and BMC Health Services Research.
As of 2008, the five journals that have been cited most frequently by articles published in The BMJ are The BMJ, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
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