Patient peer review in academic journals: Next steps in the journey
For science to be truly open, research must go beyond simply being available to all, and actively engage the patients and the public who both fund and benefit… Read more »
Ella Flemyng
Journal Development Manager at BioMed Central
Within BMC, Ella oversees a portfolio of open-access, applied-methodology journals within health sciences that aim to improve the design, conduct and reporting of different study designs. She is an advocate for improving research integrity and seeing publishing and peer review develop to meet the needs of the research community. Before working in publishing, Ella completed a Master's of Science in biomedical and molecular science at Kings College London.
Latest posts by Ella Flemyng (see all)
- Patient peer review in academic journals: Next steps in the journey - 10th September 2018
- Increasing diversity in peer review with transparent mentoring of early career researchers - 11th June 2018
- Completed our Clinical Trials Day Quiz? Read about what’s next for clinical trial reporting - 19th May 2017
Increasing diversity in peer review with transparent mentoring of early career researchers
Today, four BMC journals are launching a pilot to proactively endorse peer review mentoring, which aims to increase diversity and inclusivity in peer review. In… Read more »
Completed our Clinical Trials Day Quiz? Read about what’s next for clinical trial reporting
Happy International Clinical Trials Day! If you haven’t yet, take our Clinical Trials Day Quiz on clinical trial reporting and then recap here on what’s… Read more »
The curious case of an internal pilot in a multicentre randomized trial
Multicentre randomized trials are complex projects and the need for a formal check to ensure its progressing how you would hope, generally known as an… Read more »
A timeline for conducting your clinical trial
This year, in celebration of International Clinical Trials Day on 20 May, BioMed Central has put together a timeline of the stages of conducting a clinical… Read more »
Unifying all of Europe in clinical trial participation: the ECRAN project
A recent publication in Trials details the development of the European Communication on Research Awareness Needs (ECRAN) project, which was designed to improve… Read more »
What might the future hold for patient involvement and academic publishing?
Following last week's fantastic tweet chat “Academic publishing and patient/public awareness of research - two sides of the same coin?” - #PPIpublishing -… Read more »
Boosting the impact of your qualitative research in feasibility studies for randomized controlled trials
Using qualitative research alongside clinical trials can help identify and explore uncertainties that could impact the intervention or trial design, which is of… Read more »
AllTrials US campaign officially launched
Since its launch in 2013, the AllTrials campaign has achieved a lot in Europe and has been a strong and powerful voice for advocating the registration and… Read more »
Brain morphology and schizophrenia – what does the evidence tell us?
A recent study published in Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine examined whole and regional brain morphology in patients with recent-onset schizophrenia… Read more »