Top 10 most read in July: COVID-19, neurodivergence and chronic fatigue, and socioeconomic status bias in health care

In our top 10 most read blog, we highlight the articles from BMJ Open that have been the most widely read in the previous month. The chart below is based on full text views—including downloads of the full article PDFs—from July 2024. Spotlight remains on COVID-19 July saw seven new entries into the top 10, […]

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Top 10 most read in June 2024 – a focus on Study Protocols

In June, there were 7 new entries to our top 10 list, 5 of which were protocol articles. Protocols are vital for open science, preventing unnecessary duplication of work and increasing transparency beyond what traditional registries can provide. As highlighted by their prevalence in this months most-read articles, they also are great for providing exposure […]

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Top 10 Most Read in January: Coffee consumption linked to lower prostate cancer risk, patients of Asian and black backgrounds suffer disproportionate rates of premature death from COVID-19.

The first month of 2021 sees four new entries in the top 10 most read articles. This includes our most read paper of January: a meta-analysis of coffee consumption and prostate cancer risk by researchers from the Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University. Combining data from 16 cohort studies, the authors found that the highest […]

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Top 10 Most Read in December: symptom assessment apps, multivitamins, and online teaching for medical students.

Happy New Year. The new year represents a fresh start for many of us and an opportunity to reflect back on the previous year. Taking a look at the top articles for December 2020, we are still seeing a very high interest in COVID-19 articles and we have two new entries this month. The entry […]

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Top 10 Most Read in August: The incubation period of COVID-19, gender bias in peer review and new face mask testing.

August saw a number of new papers enter BMJ Open’s top 10 most read articles. First up is a rapid systematic review of estimates of the incubation period of COVID-19. The incubation period is the time in days from the point of COVID-19 exposure to the onset of symptoms. Having reliable estimates of the incubation […]

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Top 10 Most Read in May: Women’s experiences of breastfeeding beyond infancy, the birth sex ratio following the 2016 United States presidential election, and the validation of a clinical examination to differentiate a cervicogenic source of headache

 In May, we saw seven new manuscripts enter the BMJ Open’s top 10 most read articles since our last update in February. New in at number one is a qualitative exploration of women’s experiences of breastfeeding beyond infancy in the UK. Thompson et al. interviewed 19 women in breastfeeding support groups and found that they […]

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Top 10 Most Read in December: Routine induction in late-term pregnancies, prevalence of depression in GBMSM and the association between hyperlipidemia and mortality after AMI or ADHF.

December saw three new papers enter BMJ Open’s top 10 most read articles. New to the list this month is a cohort study of routine induction in late-term pregnancies from Denmark. The country introduced a new policy in 2011 aiming to prevent stillbirths and other foetal and maternal complications in post-term pregnancies. Rydahl and colleagues […]

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Top ten most read in November: management of musculoskeletal conditions by physical therapists, inequalities in the rise in infant mortality in England, and the cost and environmental impact of switching to low global warming potential inhalers

The list of the top ten most read articles in November sees many previous entries keeping their places, including a case-control study on antidepressant use during pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus. However, November has also welcomed three new entries into the top ten. New in at number one is a systematic review […]

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