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Expanding access in high-quality respiratory and critical care medicine research: BMJ Open Respiratory Research

Stephen J Chapman,1 Matt P Wise2

To cite: Chapman SJ, We are delighted to introduce BMJ Open rather than its perceived potential impact. We Wise MP. Expanding access Respiratory Research, an online peer-reviewed are interested in publishing all research study in high-quality respiratory and critical care medicine respiratory medicine journal pub- types, including small or specialist studies, BMJ research: BMJ Open Resp lished by the in partnership with the important negative results, and replication Res 2013;1:e000003. British Thoracic Society. The journal is dedicated studies, with the aim of adding to the overall doi:10.1136/bmjresp-2013- to rapid publication of high-quality research body of knowledge available in the public 000003 from all areas of respiratory medicine, includ- domain. We envisage that readers and the ing respiratory science and critical care. wider respiratory research community will Publication bias and a preoccupation with determine the impact of published research Accepted 13 August 2013 journal mean that currently avail- articles on an individual basis, and in order to able research findings in respiratory medicine encourage this we will provide article-level arelikelytorepresentonlythe‘tip of the metrics including counts of views and citations. iceberg’, with many more preliminary, The journal will maximise visibility of authors’

small-scale or negative studies remaining research by ensuring free online access to a copyright. unavailable to the research community. Open global audience using the well-established bmj. access journals have their proponents12and com host site. As the journal becomes estab- detractors34; however, it is a priority that all well- lished we aim to gain listing in the PubMed conducted research on respiratory medicine is database and ISI Current Contents (Web of made freely available in order to portray a repre- Science) and indexed by Scopus and Google sentative picture of the research landscape. BMJ Scholar. Accompanying editorials will be pro- Open Respiratory Research aims to meet this gap, vided to aid interpretation of selected articles without compromising on integrity or standards of particular interest, and exceptional articles http://bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/ of . A central aim of the journal will be press-released. therefore is to combine the benefits of open We plan an interactive journal experience access with a commitment to maintaining scien- and hope to provoke scientificdebateand tific rigour through the process of stringent encourage interaction, with the opportunity for peer-review. In this way the journal will maintain readers to comment on published research. We high standards of publication and uphold the look forward to reading your research submis- scientific reputations of the BMJ and the British sions and welcome your feedback on all aspects Thoracic Society, while allowing freely available of BMJ Open Respiratory Research. 1Consultant and Senior unrestricted and immediate online access to Competing interests None. Lecturer in Respiratory

research globally, with the article copyright on October 2, 2021 by guest. Protected Medicine, Oxford University Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally Hospitals and Oxford retained by the author. peer reviewed. BMJ Open Respiratory Biomedical Research Centre, All articles published in Open Access This final article is available for use under the UK Research will have been approved following terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 2Consultant Adult Critical external peer review by at least two expert 3.0 Licence; see http://journals.bmj.com/site/bmjopenrespres Care, University Hospital of reviewers selected by our international editor- Wales, and National Institute ial board. We aim for a rapid peer review for Social Care and Health fi REFERENCES Research (NISCHR) service, with the majority of rst decisions 1. Smith KA. The frontiers publishing paradigm. Front Academic Health Science available within 30 days of submission. Immunol 2012;3:1. Collaboration (AHSC) Clinical Publication of accepted articles will be con- 2. Wolpert AJ. For the sake of inquiry and knowledge– Research Fellow, UK the inevitability of open access. N Engl J Med tinuous, with research published online as 2013;368:785–7. soon as the article is ready. 3. Frank M. Open but not free—publishing in the 21st Correspondence to century. N Engl J Med 2013;368:787–9. [email protected], The emphasis of the peer review will be the 4. Haug C. The downside of open-access publishing. [email protected] scientific and ethical validity of research, N Engl J Med 2013;368:791–3.

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