BMJ Open publishes papers on a wide range of topics and study designs and with a global perspective. In acknowledgement of World Heart Day 2025, we highlight some of our recent papers that consider patients’ voices via qualitative studies within the broad topic area of cardiovascular health. The research questions and study settings are diverse, […]
Category: Editors picks
Top 10 most read in April 2024 (and more) – focus on AI in healthcare
While most of the top-ten papers from April 2024 have already been discussed in previous blog posts, the focus of this post is on artificial intelligence (AI), the topic of number 8 in this month’s Top 10 (see table below). We have published a number of papers that examine AI and its potential use in […]
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 […]
Editors’ picks of 2017
BMJ Open has had an incredible 2017 – publishing more than 2,700 articles across the whole spectrum of medicine. The editorial team at BMJ Open have selected some of their highlights from our articles published throughout 2017. Enjoy! Emotions and alcohol consumption: Is it wine that is making you whine? Alcohol is a popular […]