About
Acceptance Rate:
31%
Time to first decision without review:
6 days*
Time to first decision with review:
36 days*
Acceptance to publication:
22 days*
Impact Factor (JCR):
5.1
Citescore:
7.3
Aims and scope
RMD Open publishes high quality peer-reviewed original research covering the full spectrum of musculoskeletal disorders, rheumatism and connective tissue diseases, including osteoporosis, spine and rehabilitation. Clinical and epidemiological research, basic and translational medicine, interesting clinical cases, and smaller studies that add to the literature are all considered.
Editorial Board
For information about the RMD Open Editor-in-Chief and the editorial team, please refer to the Editorial Board page.
Ownership
RMD Open is owned by BMJ.
Journal information
Publication Model
Open access
Frequency
Continuous online publication
Launch date
2015
Indexed by
Web of Science Core Collection: Science Citation Index Expanded; Emerging Sources Citation Index, Current Contents: Clinical Medicine, MEDLINE (Index Medicus), PubMed Central, Scopus, Embase (Excerpta Medica), DOAJ, Google Scholar
Peer Review Model
Single anonymised; the names of reviewers are hidden from the author
Online ISSN
2056-5933
Journal Statistics 2023
Acceptance rate: 31%
Speed
Time to first decision without review (median): 6 days
Time to first decision with review (median): 36 days
Time from acceptance to publication (median): 22 days
Impact
Impact Factor Category: Rheumatology
Impact Factor (JCR): 5.1
Impact Factor rank: 8/57
5 Year Impact Factor: 5
Journal Citation Indicator: 1.45
Eigenfactor Score: 0.00939
Scimago Journal rank (SJR): 1.739
Citescore: 7.3
Citescore rank: 15/73
Reach
Total content views: 409,260
Total Altmetric mentions: 3,803
The impact that academic research has cannot be defined by one single metric. In 2013, BMJ signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA). We did this to show our support for using multiple measures and metrics to portray journals’ impact; moving away from the Impact Factor as a single measure.
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The BMJ Publishing Group is a founding member of COPE (the Committee on Publication Ethics), which provides a forum for publishers and Editors of scientific journals to discuss issues relating to the integrity of the work submitted to or published in their journals.
The EQUATOR Network is an international initiative that seeks to improve the value of medical research literature by promoting accurate, transparent reporting of research studies. The BMJ Group is a sponsor of its activities.
BMJ is a founding organisation of the AllTrials initiative, which calls for all past and present clinical trials to be registered and their results reported.