While the majority of the papers from February’s top ten are still hanging onto their places in the chart, there are three new entries in this month’s top ten. In this blog, we take a closer look at March’s new entries. Women’s experiences of both prescription and over-the-counter medications during pregnancy in the UK. Using […]
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Top 10 most read in September: Folic acid and methotrexate use, and their association with COVID-19
While there has been some movement in our top 10 list this month, Zemedikun et al. have retained the top spot. While COVID-19 still features in our list of most-read papers, we are starting to see a wider variety of topics beginning to make the cut. Our only new entry this month is by Topless […]
Editor’s picks: BMJ Open’s top mental health papers in 2022, ranked by Altmetric score
Mental health is an extremely important topic and plays a big part in all of our lives. While progress has been made to break down the stigma surrounding mental health, there is still a long way to go. Research into mental health policy, epidemiology, advocacy and treatment is imperative and is worth celebrating. In our […]
Editor’s Picks 2022: Patient and Public Involvement Research
In June’s blog post we highlighted some of BMJ Open’s most impactful papers of 2022 so far based on Altmetric score, which collates mentions of research articles across various sources including news reports, blogs and social media platforms. But Altmetric scores only pick up one facet of research impact. Another important way of making clinical […]
Top 10 most read in February: adverse childhood experiences and COVID-19, caffeinated energy drinks and children, and ‘brain fog’ after COVID-19
It is unsurprising that COVID-19 still dominates our top 10 list. In February, we saw a large number of new articles enter our top 10 most read list; three of which have been highlighted below. Associations between adverse childhood experiences, attitudes towards COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine hesitancy Bellis et al. conducted a cross-sectional telephone […]
Top 10 Most Read in December 2021: Housework and cognitive function, COVID-19 experts in the media, and the association of chronic and periodontal diseases.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy New Year. Although 2022 is well underway, there is still time to take a moment to reflect on 2021. The pandemic continues to be an ever evolving situation, so as we look back at our most read papers of December 2021, articles […]
World AIDS Day 2021
Today marks the annual World AIDS Day, promoted by the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1987. The theme for this year’s awareness day is “End inequalities. End AIDS.” Apart from COVID-19, HIV/AIDS remains the only other ongoing pandemic affecting the world today. In stark contrast to COVID-19, HIV vaccines largely remain in development, though […]
Top 10 Most Read in October 2021: adherence to non-pharmaceutical COVID-19 interventions, intellectual disabilities and COVID-19 outcomes, and pandemic-related community mental health
In October we welcomed three new papers into the top ten most read, all of which relate to different aspects of COVID-19. Adherence to non-pharmaceutical measures against COVID-19 The highest new entry in October is a study of factors that influence adherence to non-pharmaceutical measures against COVID-19 such as social distancing, working from home and […]
Top 10 Most Read in September: Vaccine acceptance, delirium in critically ill COVID-19 patients and symptom scores to predict COVID-19 positivity.
September sees just three new entries in our top 10 most read articles, all on coronavirus: Public acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines Our highest new entry is a large online survey of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance by Lindholt and colleagues from July, the first time the paper’s been in our top 10 since its publication. The […]
Top 10 most read in August: women’s health from Uganda to northern Europe
The top 10 most read BMJ Open articles for August show that the top four spots remain unchanged from July. While COVID-19-related papers remain popular overall, there are two new entries this month that focus on women’s health. Mobility patterns of young women who exchange sex for money or commodities in Uganda King et al. […]