Research in progress blog

02/09/2024 BMC Blog Network

As of 1st of September 2024, the BMC Blog Network is closed for new contributions. If you would like to write a blog about your research, please visit the Research… Read more »

20/09/2022 Nicola Stead

The past few years have highlighted the importance of scientific research and communication as researchers from multiple disciplines came together to fight… Read more »

01/09/2022 Gerrit John-Schuster

We are delighted to announce the upcoming launch of the new selective BMC journal BMC Global and Public Health, to sit alongside BMC’s renowned and leading… Read more »

12/05/2022 Meredith LeMasurier

BMC is a pioneer in open-access publishing and a champion of open science. Since its founding over 20 years ago, BMC has never… Read more »

09/03/2022 Jim Reekers

Professor Jim Reekers has started to notice that more reviewers are sending conflicting decision recommendations to the editor. In… Read more »

27/08/2020 Arianne Heinrichs

Peer review – with all its challenges – remains essential to the integrity and robustness of the editorial process.… Read more »

10/08/2020 Dylan Parker

Philip Taylor and Robert Reeder, research scientists at CABI, did not start out looking for trends in antibiotic use in crops. In… Read more »

05/05/2020 Mithu Lucraft

We are living through unprecedented times. As a publisher whose portfolio covers most biomedical and health disciplines, many of… Read more »

04/05/2020 Maria Hodges

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 »

29/04/2020 Jim Reekers

We have all experienced unfair or sometimes even hostile peer reviews. Papers which later proved to be a turning point in research… Read more »