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Aims and scope

BMC Medical Educationis an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the training of healthcare professionals, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education. The journal has a special focus on curriculum development, evaluations of performance, assessment of training needs and evidence-based medicine.

Open access

所有的文章发表byBMC Medical Education是由自由和永久访问在线吗immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found在这里.

As authors of articles published inBMC Medical Educationyou are thecopyright holdersof your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to theBMC license agreement.

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BMC can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Pleasecontact usif further information is needed.

Article-processing charges

Open-access publishing is not without costs.BMC Medical Educationtherefore levies an article-processing charge of £1990.00/$2590.00/€2190.00 for each article accepted for publication, plus VAT or local taxes where applicable. The APC is determined at the date of acceptance.

If the corresponding author's institution participates in our open access membership program, some or all of the publication cost may be covered (more details available on themembership page). We routinely waive charges for authors fromlow-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see ourarticle-processing charge page.

Visit Springer Nature’sopen access funding & support servicesfor information about research funders and institutions that provide funding for APCs.

Springer Nature offers agreements that enable institutions to cover open-access publishing costs. Learn more about ouropen access agreementsto check your eligibility and discover whether this journal is included.

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Indexing services

所有的文章发表inBMC Medical Educationare included in:

  • CABI
  • CAS
  • Cinahl
  • Citebase
  • Current contents
  • DOAJ
  • Embase
  • EmCare
  • Global Health
  • MEDLINE
  • OAIster
  • PubMed
  • PubMed Central
  • Science Citation Index Expanded
  • SCImago
  • Scopus
  • Social Sciences Citation Index
  • SOCOLAR
  • Zetoc

The full text of all articles is deposited indigital archivesaround the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central onSpringerLink.

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process在这里.

In cases where the journal is unable to find sufficient peer reviewers, the services of a publishing partner, Research Square, may be used to identify suitable reviewers and provide reports to avoid further delays for authors. Reviewers recruited by Research Square are paid a small honorarium for completing the review within a specified timeframe. Honoraria are paid regardless of the reviewer recommendation. With Research Square, a double-anonymous peer review system is in operation.

In cases where reports have been obtained by Research Square, the peer review reports will be unsigned unless the reviewer opts in to sign the report.

BMC Medical Educationoperates a transparent peer-review system, where, if the article is published, the reviewer reports are published online alongside the article under aCreative Commons Attribution License 4.0but the reviewer is not named.

The benefit of transparent peer review is that it increases transparency. In addition, published reports can serve an educational purpose in helping facilitate training and research into peer review.

Manuscripts submitted toBMC Medical Educationare assessed by our editors and/or peer reviewers. Editor(s) are expected to obtain a minimum of two peer reviewers for manuscripts reporting primary research or secondary analysis of primary research. It is recognized that in some exceptional circumstances, particularly in niche and emerging fields, it may not be possible to obtain two independent peer reviewers. In such cases, Editor(s) may wish to make a decision to publish based on one peer review report. When making a decision based on one report, Editor(s) are expected to only do so if the peer review report meets the standards set out in theSpringer Nature Code of Conduct(section Peer-Review). Overall editorial responsibility for the journal is with the Editor. Senior Editorial Board Members ofBMC Medical Educationhandle manuscripts in a broad range of topics within their general areas of expertise, in addition to advising on editorial board and journal development. The Senior Editorial Board is selected based on exceptional contributions to the journal. The Editorial Board Members manage the peer review process and make final decisions on whether papers should be accepted.

BMC Medical Educationis part of the BMC series which publishes subject-specific journals focused on the needs of individual research communities across all areas of biology and medicine. We do not make editorial decisions on the basis of the interest of a study or its likely impact. Studies must be scientifically valid; for research articles this includes a scientifically sound research question, the use of suitable methods and analysis, and following community-agreed standards relevant to the research field.

Specific criteria for other article types can be found in the submission guidelines.

BMC series - open, inclusive and trusted.

Collections and Special issues

All articles submitted to Collections and Special issues are peer reviewed in line with the journal’s standard peer review policy and are subject to all of the journal’s standard editorial and publishing policies. This includes the journal’s policy on competing interests. The Editors declare no competing interests with the submissions which they have handled through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editor who has no competing interests.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted toBMC Medical Educationshould adhere toBioMed Central's editorial policies.

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Appeals and complaints

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in theBMC Editorial Policies.

Citing articles inBMC Medical Education

Articles inBMC Medical Educationshould be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. BMC Med Educ [year], [volume number]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. BMC Med Educ 2009,1:115.

refers to article 115 from Volume 1 of the journal.


出版的好处与BMC

High visibility

BMC Medical Education's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.

Speed of publication

BMC Medical Educationoffers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF.

Flexibility

Online publication inBMC Medical Educationgives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published inBMC Medical Educationare included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted onBMC Medical Education’s pages and on the BMC homepage.

In addition, articles published inBMC Medical Educationmay be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published inBMC Medical Education. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BMC is available在这里.

Copyright

As an author of an article published inBMC Medical Educationyou retain thecopyrightof your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work (for further details, see theBMC license agreement).

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • Citation Impact
    3.263 -2-year Impact Factor(2021)
    3.710 -5-year Impact Factor(2021)
    1.815 -SNIP(Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.744 -SJR(SCImago Journal Rank)

    Speed
    72 days to first decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    90 days to first decision for reviewed manuscripts only (Median)

    Usage
    6,040,310 downloads (2022)
    3,096 Altmetric mentions (2021)

Peer-review Terminology

  • The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

    Identity transparency:Single anonymized

    Reviewer interacts with:Editor

    Review information published:Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

    More information is available here

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