Global healthcare knowledge provider BMJ has announced the launch of a new respiratory medicine journal next month. BMJ Open Respiratory Research will be published in partnership with the British Thoracic Society, which already co-owns Thorax, one of over 45 specialist titles from BMJ.
BMJ Open Respiratory Research is an online-only, open access title that will publish high quality, peer-reviewed, medical research in all disciplines and therapeutic areas of respiratory medicine, including respiratory science and critical care.
In common with BMJ's other open access titles, the journal will publish a wide range of material that is not always available in more traditional outlets, such as study protocols and phase I clinical trials, meta-analyses, and small or specialist studies. Additionally, it will operate a fast submission and review process with continuous publication online, to ensure up-to-date research is rapidly available worldwide.
The journal will feature open peer review, for which reviewers will be required to sign their reports, and declare any competing interests to editors, in a bid to enhance the transparency of the publication process and boost the journal's integrity and accountability.
The title will be jointly edited by Stephen Chapman and Matt Wise. Chapman is senior lecturer and consultant in respiratory medicine at the Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and Oxford University Hospitals. Matt Wise is a consultant in critical care at the University Hospital of Wales Cardiff, an honorary senior lecturer at Cardiff University, and a National Institute for Social Care and Health Research Academic Health Science Collaboration Clinical Research Fellow.
