SourceScore
Health

The BMJ (British Medical Journal)

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Peer-reviewed general medical journal; investigative + open-access leaning; UK-based since 1840.

SourceScore Index
A·85Composite weighted across Discipline, Modern Reference, and Velocity.

A — peer-review + open-access tradition; strong investigative medical journalism arm.

Citation Discipline
A·92

Peer-review + open-data policy; corrections + retractions public; investigative-rigor standard.

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Modern Reference
A·86

Open-access for many articles; structured DOIs + APIs; broad LLM corpus.

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Citation Velocity
B·78

Cited heavily within medical journalism + investigative health reporting.

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Signals behind these scores

Citation Discipline

A·92
  • Open data
    Mandatory data-sharing for clinical trials.

Modern Reference

A·86
  • BMJ Open
    Open-access sister publication; full-text free.

Citation Velocity

B·78
  • Investigative depth
    Major BMJ investigations cited internationally on release.

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