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This year, BMC Genetics celebrates its 20th anniversary and makes an important announcement about its future; the journal will be renamed in 2021 as… Read more »
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What makes a prize-winning paper? Observations from the 2020 Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award
We take a look at the papers that won this year’s Brain Structure and Function Editors’ Choice Award, and catch up with the winners to see what… Read more »
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#BlackInCardioWeek: How it started, what happened, and what is to come
Black In Cardio is an international group of cardiovascular scientists and trainees from diverse backgrounds and subject areas. A… Read more »
Building trust in peer review: A Q&A with Dr Mario Malički
For Peer Review Week 2020, we speak with Dr Mario Malički, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Research Integrity and Peer Review on the… Read more »
Maximizing peer review efforts more important than ever
Peer review – with all its challenges – remains essential to the integrity and robustness of the editorial process.… Read more »
New method helps target local butterfly conservation efforts
In the UK, abundance trends of butterflies has typically always been calculated at a national level, however in new research… Read more »
Parasite and vector papers during the COVID-19 publication rush
The current endemic has changed a lot in academic publishing, resulting in the fast production of large quantities of texts… Read more »
BMC’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic – we’re here for you
We are living through unprecedented times. As a publisher whose portfolio covers most biomedical and health disciplines, many of… Read more »
Transparency, Openness and Peer Review
When BMC was founded 20 years ago, a lot was different. The open access (OA) movement was still in its infancy, the digital… Read more »
Brain Awareness Week 2020: Cognitive function and commercial video games
This year, Brain Awareness Week falls between 16th and 22nd March. The campaign, organised by the Dana Foundation, aims to foster… Read more »