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NEW Call for papers: Evidencing the Impact of Diet on Sports Performance

We are pleased to announce that BMC Nutrition and BMC Sports Science, Medicine, and Rehabilitation are now accepting submissions to a new cross-journal article collection covering basic and clinical research into how diet influences sport performance and exercise. 

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A longitudinal study of fruit juice consumption during preschool years and subsequent diet quality and BMI

Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine determined through a longitudinal study that pre-school consumption of 100% fruit juice is associated with beneficial effects on fruit intake and diet quality without having any adverse effects on BMI during childhood and adolescence. 

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Aims and scope

BMC Nutrition is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of nutritional sciences, including public health nutrition and global interventions, nutritional epidemiology, the biological underpinnings of nutrition in the body, clinical nutrition, health and nutrition throughout the lifecourse, and dietary supplementation for improvement in health and performance. The journal also welcomes papers on developments in nutritional research tools and novel technologies.

Peer Review Taxonomy

This journal is participating in a pilot of NISO/STM's Working Group on Peer Review Taxonomy, to identify and standardize definitions and terminology in peer review practices in order to make the peer review process for articles and journals more transparent. Further information on the pilot is available here.

The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal:

  • Identity transparency: Single anonymized
  • Reviewer interacts with: Editor
  • Review information published: Review reports. Reviewer Identities reviewer opt in. Author/reviewer communication

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Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    2.0 - 2-year Impact Factor
    0.952 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.528 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Speed
    23 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
    204 days submission to accept (Median)

    2023 Usage 
    896,518 downloads
    616 Altmetric mentions 

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