Why submit your research to the BMJ?

doi:10.1136/bmj.39057.516250.80

BMJ 2007;334:4-5 (6 January), doi:10.1136/bmj.39057.516250.80

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If you're more used to rejection than acceptanceletters, you may not believe it when editors say that medicalresearch is becoming a sellers' market. But it's true, at leastfor investigators "selling" robust and interesting researchstudies. Medical journals—whether online or print, orboth—are falling over themselves and each other to attractresearch articles, and are becoming bolder about approachingauthors who have research articles to publish. Step by step,medical publishing is becoming as much a service industry forauthors as an educational and academic service for readers.

What journals offer authors, however, isn'talways obvious to researchers choosing a journal. Authors donot want to waste time by sending their research articles tothe wrong journal, so the first thing they want to know is whetherthe editors will be interested in their work. Pure academicinterest isn't enough for BMJ editors or most importantly forreaders, . . . [Full text of this article]

Trish Groves, deputy and research editor

¹ BMJ, London WC1H 9JR

tgroves@bmj.com

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