Welcome to our open access research page dedicated to general medicine and medical evidence content from our BMC and Springer portfolios. Browse research articles, blogs, collections and more, as selected by our Editors. All articles are free to read until May 2nd 2021. Open access articles are freely available at any time.
General Medicine & Medical Evidence: Open Access Research
Research Integrity and Peer Review
The acceptability of using a lottery to allocate research funding: a survey of applicants
Quantifying professionalism in peer review
The limitations to our understanding of peer review
Trials
Trial Forge Guidance 2: how to decide if a further Study Within A Trial (SWAT) is needed
Research Involvement and Engagement
PPI Or User Involvement: Taking stock from a service user perspective in the twenty first century
Guidance on authorship with and acknowledgement of patient partners in patient-oriented research
Systematic Reviews
Journal of Translational Medicine
Effects of a ketogenic diet in overweight women with polycystic ovary syndrome
The effects of statins on dental and oral health: a review of preclinical and clinical studies
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Mentorship of Underrepresented Physicians and Trainees in Academic Medicine: a Systematic Review
Diagnostic and Prognostic Research
Translational Medicine Communications
European Journal of Medical Research
BMC Medicine
Genome Medicine
Clinical and Experimental Medicine
“Mixed connective tissue disease”: a condition in search of an identity
The risk of cardiovascular complications in inflammatory bowel disease
EPMA Journal
Journal of Medical Case Reports
Paternity seven years after a negative post-vasectomy semen analysis: a case report
Research Integrity and Peer Review
The role of geographic bias in knowledge diffusion: a systematic review and narrative synthesis
Open up: a survey on open and non-anonymized peer reviewing
MyCites: a proposal to mark and report inaccurate citations in scholarly publications
Trials
It is unprecedented: trial management during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
Journal of Translational Medicine
Emerging SARS-CoV-2 mutation hot spots include a novel RNA-dependent-RNA polymerase variant
BMC Medicine
COVID-19 length of hospital stay: a systematic review and data synthesis
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Post-Discharge Health Status and Symptoms in Patients with Severe COVID-19
Genome Medicine
Systematic Reviews
European Journal of Medical Research
Translational Medicine Communications
BMC Medical Research Methodology
COVID-19-related medical research: a meta-research and critical appraisal
Clinical and Experimental Medicine
Organ-specific manifestations of COVID-19 infection
EPMA Journal
Journal of Medical Case Reports
An itchy erythematous papular skin rash as a possible early sign of COVID-19: a case report
Featured Blog and Collection
We need to develop counter adaptations to predatory journals
Predatory journals pose a threat to the integrity of science. Kelly D. Cobey and David Moher, from the Centre for Journalology at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, discuss the need to counter adaptations by predatory journals in order to differentiate them from legitimate OA journals.
Read MoreA collection of methodologies for COVID-19 research and data analysis
This collection from BMC Medical Research Methodology aims to report on original peer-reviewed research articles in methodological approaches to medical research related to COVID-19.
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