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BMC Medical Genetics reaches milestone

BMC Medical Genetics has published it’s 500th article today, the 11th BMC-series journal to reach this milestone. BMC Medical Genetics has moved from strength to strength since its launch in November 2000: submissions to the journal have grown rapidly, the journal has published a supplement by the Framingham Heart Study, and the journal received its first impact factor in June 2008, increasing to 2.76 this past summer.

The journal’s 500th article, The role of CACNA1S in predisposition to malignant hyperthermia by Danielle Carpenter and colleagues is the first comprehensive study of the entire CACN1AS gene in a large number of patients with malignant hyperthermia. In this work, the researchers discover a potentially disease-causative mutation.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all authors, reviewers and committed Editorial Board Members who have been involved in the successful growth of the journal. BMC Medical Genetics has involved Associate Editors in the peer review process since 2008, and we would like to thank all of our Associate Editors as well as members of our Advisory Board for their help and support – without them the success of the journal would not have been possible, and we appreciate their continued dedication to journal.

We welcome readers’ feedback on the journal and its contents. If you have any questions about the journal and our editorial policies, or if you would like to be involved in the journal, as an author, reviewer, or Associate Editor, please do get in touch.

BMC Medical Genetics and BioMed Central will be exhibiting at the upcoming American Society of Human Genetics meeting on the 21-23 Oct in Honululu, Hawaii. Please drop-by booth #603 to meet the in-house editors for the journal.

Scott Edmunds, PhD.
In-house Editor, BMC Medical Genetics.

Anastasios Koutsos, PhD.
Journal Development Editor, BMC Medical Genetics.

Posted by Scott Edmunds at 17:41    Comments (0)

Free Open Access Week webinar - 5 Open Access publishers in the spotlight for live Q&A session

There is still time to register for the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association's free Open Access Week Webinar, which is taking place at 5pm UK time, on Tuesday October 20th.

The panel session includes representatives from BioMed Central and Public Library of Science, AOSIS (an African open access publisher), Igitur (a Dutch university press), and Nature Publishing Group (which has recently announced several open access initiatives). There will be live Q&A, so this is an excellent chance for researchers, authors, editors, librarians and other interested parties to find out more about what open access publishers are planning, and to seek answers to any burning questions about open access journals.

To register for the webcast and reserve a place, just email info@oaspa.org with the subject line: OASPA Webinar.

Posted by Matthew Cockerill at 16:21    Comments (0)