Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has added two further online titles to its burgeoning portfolio of specialist and open access journals. The titles are: BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine and RMD Open.
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, a sister title to the British Journal of Sports Medicine, launched April 9, while RMD Open, a sister title to the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, officially launched earlier this year.
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine covers all aspects of sport and exercise medicine from physiology to return to play. Professor Karim Khan, Director of Research and Education, Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, will serve as the Editor-in-Chief.
The new title will be an official journal of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM), a members’ organisation for doctors and other healthcare professionals involved in sport and exercise medicine.
RMD Open aims to publish original research covering the full spectrum of musculoskeletal, rheumatic, and connective tissue disorders, including basic and translational medicine.
The journal is co-owned with the European League against Rheumatism (EULAR), which, among other things, aims to stimulate and facilitate research in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases.
Professor Bernard Combe, who heads up the Department of Rheumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery at Montpellier University Hospital in France, serves as the Editor-in-Chief.
Both titles will be peer reviewed and open access, so free to view. They will operate a fast submission and review process, with continuous publication online, ensuring that up-to-date high quality research is rapidly available worldwide.
In common with BMJ’s other open access titles, the new journals will publish a wide range of material that is not always available in more traditional outlets, including study protocols and phase I clinical trials, meta-analyses, small or specialist studies, and interesting case studies.
