BioMed Central: Quality and Quantity in a portfolio of open access journals

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The BMC series journals

• Built from the ground up sound science
• Series launched in 2000, all content open access
• 57 titles by the end of 2001
• BMC Medicine and BMC Biology launched in 2003 to
  highlight the best of the BMC series

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Specialized interest
Exceptional interest
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Exceptional Interest
Specialized Interest
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Moving around the portfolio

• An article of exceptional interest may move into
  BMC Medicine
• Grey matter changes can improve the prediction
  of schizophrenia in subjects at high risk
• Dominic E Job, Heather C Whalley, Andrew M
  McIntosh, David GC Owens, Eve C Johnstone,
  Stephen M LawrieBMC Medicine 2006, 429
  (7 December 2006)

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Moving around the portfolio

• Articles that are out of scope for a particular
  journal may move into another more appropriate
  journal
• Dealing with missing data in a multi-question
  depression scale a comparison of imputation
  methods
• Fiona M Shrive, Heather Stuart, Hude Quan,
  William A GhaliBMC Medical Research Methodology
  2006, 657 (13 December 2006)

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In addition

• Articles of specialized interest may move from
  BMC Medicine into more specialized journals
• Articles that are not appropriate for our sister
  journals may move into one of the BMC series
  journals

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The result

• A portfolio of journals with fluidity of quality,
  depth and breadth of coverage
• Exceptional, broad interest research is published
  in high impact journals
• Publication of large quantities of sound research
  is achieved