Citation Impact
3.031 - 2-year Impact Factor
4.837 - 5-year Impact Factor
1.741 - Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP)
1.614 - SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)
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Featured article: Improving the use of focus group discussions in low income settings
Scheelbeek et al report on how focus group discussion in low-income settings can be improved and suggest the tailoring of the exercises, as well as thorough training and selection of the facilitators. The further mention that adequate piloting and adaptation are crucial to respond to various study settings.
Featured article: Epistemonikos: a comprehensive database of systematic reviews for health decision-making
In this Database article, Rada et al screened over 1,400,000 records and identified more than 300,000 systematic reviews relevant for health decision-making, which are now stored in a single place and accessible through an easy-to-use search engine, making Epistemonikos the largest database of its kind.
Featured article: An evaluation of DistillerSR’s machine learning-based prioritization tool for title/abstract screening – impact on reviewer-relevant outcomes
Hamel et al evaluated the performance of the prioritization simulation tool to determine the reduction in screening burden and time. A modified or stop screening approach appears to be a valid method for rapid reviews, but application in systematic and prospective reviews needs to be further evaluated.
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Informing the research agenda for optimizing audit and feedback interventions: results of a prioritization exercise
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Understanding participation in European cohort studies of preterm children: the views of parents, healthcare professionals and researchers
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Fitting a shared frailty illness-death model to left-truncated semi-competing risks data to examine the impact of education level on incident dementia
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Flexible modelling of risk factors on the incidence of pneumonia in young children in South Africa using piece-wise exponential additive mixed modelling
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Meta-Analyst: software for meta-analysis of binary, continuous and diagnostic data
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A tutorial on pilot studies: the what, why and how
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Using the framework method for the analysis of qualitative data in multi-disciplinary health research
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How to do a grounded theory study: a worked example of a study of dental practices
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The case study approach
Aims and scope
BMC Medical Research Methodology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in methodological approaches to healthcare research. Articles on the methodology of epidemiological research, clinical trials and meta-analysis/systematic review are particularly encouraged, as are empirical studies of the associations between choice of methodology and study outcomes. BMC Medical Research Methodology does not aim to publish articles describing scientific methods or techniques: these should be directed to the BMC journal covering the relevant biomedical subject area.
Call for Papers: Methodologies for COVID-19 research and data analysis
BMC Medical Research Methodology announces this upcoming collection focusing on methodological approaches to medical research and data analysis related to COVID-19. Find more information and explore recent publications here.
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BMC Series Focus Issue
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January: Data sharing
Research data are the foundations of reliable and reproducible science. This month, we would like to highlight different ways authors were able to publish and share their data by choosing the BMC series.
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BMC Series Highlights Blog – December
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Highlights from the BMC Series – November
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