The most read article in September was Aston and colleagues’ modelling study of meat consumption and greenhouse gas emissions in the UK. Ekström et al‘s cohort study of the effectiveness of metformin was the second most read and Taylor et al‘s study of the impact of substance misuse remains highly read in third place. Click on […]
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Most read articles in August
The most read article in August was Taylor and colleagues’ analysis of the relative risk of harm associated with substance misuse, which was originally published at the end of July. Click on the titles to read the articles in full. Rank Author(s) Title 1 Taylor et al Quantifying the RR of harm to self and […]
Most read articles in July
The most read article in July was Heneghan and colleagues’ analysis of sports performance products, which received widespread press attention and was also accompanied by a BBC Panorama special. The second most read paper, Katzmarzyk and Lee’s life table analysis of life expectancy and sedentary behaviour, also received large amounts of press coverage both in […]
BMJ Open in the news
BMJ Open research has made the news again. The paper by Peter T Katzmarzyk (Pennington Biomedical Research Center) and I-Min Lee (Harvard) on the impact of sitting and television viewing on life expectancy in the USA has received widespread coverage, from the BBC in the UK, through numerous US news outlets, and as far as […]
Most read articles in June
The most read article in June was once again Kripke and colleagues’ paper on the association between hypnotic use and mortality. Both the second and third most read papers – Söder et al‘s analysis on the association between dental plaque and mortality in Sweden and Nichols et al‘s modelling study on optimal alcohol intake – received […]
Most read articles in May
The most read article in May was Kripke and colleagues’ analysis of the association between hypnotics and mortality. Woz et al‘s analysis of post-discharge hospital utilisation, originally published in April, was the second most popular and the newly published paper by Wiberg et al on the relationship between cognitive performance and post-stroke mortality was the third […]
Most read articles in April
The most read article in April was – for the third month running – Kripke and colleagues’ analysis of the association between hypnotics and mortality. Second and third most read were Townsend and Pitchford’s study of the impact of weaning style on food preferences and Hoddinott et al‘s qualitative study of infant feeding. Six of […]
Most read articles in March
The most read article in March was Kripke et al‘s study of the association between hypnotics and mortality, originally published at the end of February. In second and third place are two very different articles both relating to infant feeding. Belghiti et al‘s study of the association between oxytocin and postpartum haemorrhage, which was originally […]
Most read articles in February
The most read article in February was Kripke et al‘s study of the association between hypnotics and mortality, which was only published on February 27th (attracting almost 17,000 views in just a few days) and received widespread press attention. The second most read was Townsend and Pitchford’s study comparing the effect of different weaning styles on […]
BMJ Open’s first birthday
It is a year today that BMJ Open published its first papers: prompting donuts all round! We have now published over 230 open access research articles, covering niche topics and major public health issues alike. Several articles have received plenty of press coverage. Some have prompted considerable national debate, such as this paper suggesting that there […]