The BMJ journal 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 journal 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.
The BMJ journal
Discipline MedicineLanguage English
History 1840–present
Publisher BMA (United Kingdom)
Frequency Weekly
Impact factor 39.890 (2020)
ISSN 0959-8138 (print)
Frequency Weekly
Impact factor 39.890 (2020)
ISSN 0959-8138 (print)
Indexing and citations
The BMJ journal 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 TheBMJ journal 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 journal are The BMJ, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.
External links
Official website
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