BMC journals
Encyclopedia
The BMC-series of journals are a collection of over 100 online research journals published by BioMed Central. Like all BioMed Central
journals, they have a policy of open access to the research articles they publish. Between them, they cover all major subject areas within biology and medicine. Two of the journals, BMC Biology
and BMC Medicine
, have a broad scope, and aim to publish particularly significant research. A third journal, BMC Research Notes, publishes research from all areas of biology and medicine without making impact or interest criteria for publication, while BMC Proceedings publishes conference proceedings. The other journals specialise on a particular subject area.
. For the 24 journals with official 2008 impact factors, it ranged from 1.68 (BMC Health Services Research) to 4.73 (BMC Biology), with a mean of 2.95. Several of the subject-specific BMC journals are among the top quarter of journals in their field with regard to their impact factors, including BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, and BMC Molecular Biology.
BioMed Central
BioMed Central is a UK-based, for-profit scientific publisher specialising in open access journal publication. BMC, and its sister companies Chemistry Central and PhysMath Central, publish over 200 scientific journals. Most BMC journals are now published only online. BMC describes itself as the...
journals, they have a policy of open access to the research articles they publish. Between them, they cover all major subject areas within biology and medicine. Two of the journals, BMC Biology
BMC Biology
BMC Biology is an online open access scientific journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed research in all fields of biology, together with opinion and comment articles. The journal is part of a series of BMC journals published by the UK-based publisher BioMed Central...
and BMC Medicine
BMC Medicine
BMC Medicine is a peer-reviewed electronic-only medical journal published since 2003 by BioMed Central, addressing topics in "all areas of medical science and clinical practice"....
, have a broad scope, and aim to publish particularly significant research. A third journal, BMC Research Notes, publishes research from all areas of biology and medicine without making impact or interest criteria for publication, while BMC Proceedings publishes conference proceedings. The other journals specialise on a particular subject area.
Impact factor
Most BMC journals have an impact factorImpact factor
The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...
. For the 24 journals with official 2008 impact factors, it ranged from 1.68 (BMC Health Services Research) to 4.73 (BMC Biology), with a mean of 2.95. Several of the subject-specific BMC journals are among the top quarter of journals in their field with regard to their impact factors, including BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, and BMC Molecular Biology.