To 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.
Call for Papers: Irritable bowel syndrome
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new article collection seeking submissions on all novel, impactful advances of irritable bowel syndrome, including disease burden, etiology, pathophysiology, and therapies.
Call for Papers: Targeted therapies for cancer
BMC Medicine and BMC Cancer are welcoming submissions to a new joint collection on cancer targeted therapies. We are seeking manuscripts on all aspects of molecular targeted therapies, including novel therapies, treatment resistance, combination therapies and biomarker discovery.
Research: Global COVID-19 outcomes in patients with pre-existing health conditions
In this umbrella review, the authors evaluated data from 120 systematic reviews to assess COVID-19 outcomes in people with co-morbidities. Although there were substantial similarities in certain subgroups across the world, high variation between regions still exists.
Research: Lifestyle intervention improves glycaemic control in T2DM
Results from a trial suggest that the Norfolk Diabetes Prevention Study lifestyle intervention improves glycaemic control after 12 months in people with screen-detected type 2 diabetes, particularly in those receiving oral hypoglycaemics and in those under 65 years old.
Editor’s Choice: World Lung Cancer Day 2021
The Editors of BMC Medicine are delighted to share with you a selection of key papers that highlight lung cancer research published in the journal to mark World Lung Cancer Day 2021.
Meet Our New Board Members
Meet our new Editorial Board Members, which will work closely with our in-house Editors assessing, selecting and helping to improve the papers that the Journal publishes.
Highlight: Portable Peer-Review
Supporting SDG3: Good Health and Well-Being
BMC 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.
Professor David Dunger
We are saddened to share the news that David Dunger (FMedSci), Professor Emeritus at the Department of Pediatrics and Institute of Metabolic Science at the University of Cambridge has passed away on July 20th, 2021. Professor Dunger was an endocrinologist who had made profound contributions to the field of Diabetes Mellitus, and was a member of the editorial advisory board for BMC Medicine. We very much appreciate the positive contributions that he had made to the journal and our thoughts are with his family during this difficult time.
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.
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Elevated risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in Japanese children with higher genetic susceptibility to ADHD with a birth weight under 2000 g
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Can we achieve better recruitment by providing better information? Meta-analysis of ‘studies within a trial’ (SWATs) of optimised participant information sheets
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Psychopathological symptom network structure in transgender and gender queer youth reporting parental psychological abuse: a network analysis
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Decentralized facility financing versus performance-based payments in primary health care: a large-scale randomized controlled trial in Nigeria
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
Call for papers
Targeted Therapies for Cancer
The joint BMC Medicine and BMC Cancer collection will remain open and accept submissions for one year after launch.
Taking on the challenge: Food sensitivity, intolerance and altered microbiota in irritable bowel syndrome
The collection will remain open and accept submissions for one year after launch.
Diabetic Kidney Disease: Advances in Disease Burden, Etiology, Pathophysiology, and Therapies
The collection will remain open and accept submissions until June 2022.
Article collections
Article collection
Global Outbreaks and Responses
Guest editors: Professor Dale Fisher, Dr. Gail Carson, and Dr. Lina Moses.
Article collection
New Frontiers in Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of Neuromuscular Disorders
Guest editor: Bradley Turner
Article collection
Non-malarial febrile illness
Guest editor: Philippe Guerin
Article collection
Complexity in Mental Health Research: Theory, Method, and Empirical Contributions
Guest editors: Dr Eiko I. Fried and Dr Donald Robinaugh
Article collection
Cardiovascular Issues in Underrepresented Populations
Guest editors: Prof Deborah Lawlor, Prof Naveed Sattar and Prof Aletta E Schutte
Article collection
Who dies of what? Strengthening CRVS systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era
Guest editor: Alan D. Lopez
Article collection
Stunting, undernutrition and obesity: the triple threat of childhood malnutrition
Guest editors: Prof. Andrew Prentice and Dr. Martha Mwangome
See all article collections here.
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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
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medRxiv transfers
BMC Medicine is happy to consider manuscripts that have been, or will be, posted on a preprint server. Authors are able to submit their manuscripts directly from medRxiv, without having to re-upload files.
COVID-19 and impact on peer review
As a result of the significant disruption that is being caused by the COVID-19 pandemic we are very aware that many researchers will have difficulty in meeting the timelines associated with our peer review process during normal times. Please do let us know if you need additional time. Our systems will continue to remind you of the original timelines but we intend to be highly flexible at this time.
Registered reports
BMC Medicine is accepting Registered Reports. Find out more about this innovative format in our Submission Guidelines.