Journal profile · Nursing-Leadership and Management
BMJ Open Quality
ISSN 2399-6641 · BMJ Publishing Group · United Kingdom
BMJ Open Quality: CAS Zone 4 · Medicine (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 2.1 (journal website); fully open access; APC charged, amount not published; median 193 days to acceptance (104 articles, last 24 months); acceptance rate 49% (journal website); 349 articles in 2025; indexed in ESCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
BMJ Open Quality is published by BMJ Publishing Group and is in Zone 4 of Medicine in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Patient Safety and Medication Errors, Health Policy Implementation Science and Emergency and Acute Care Studies, together about 27.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are General Health Professions. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Acceptance rate:49%Time from acceptance to publication:20 days*Impact Factor:2.12025 Total content views:576,692More journal metricsHow we get these metrics*median number of days Aims & scope Ownership Editorial Board Journal information Journal Statistics 2025 Contact information For authors To advertise Rights and permissions Affiliations Related BMJ sites
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Nursing-Leadership and Management
Editor-in-chief Helen CrispPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United Kingdom 5 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Patient Safety and Medication ErrorsHealth Professions14.2%
- Health Policy Implementation ScienceHealth Professions6.5%
- Emergency and Acute Care StudiesMedicine6.3%
- Hospital Admissions and OutcomesMedicine6.3%
- Primary Care and Health OutcomesHealth Professions5.1%
- Patient Satisfaction in HealthcareHealth Professions5%
- Sepsis Diagnosis and TreatmentMedicine4.4%
- Healthcare cost, quality, practicesHealth Professions3.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 4 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Medicine Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Medicine | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Health Care Sciences & Services | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Medicine, General & Internal | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Not covered
Not covered by this edition.
Database indexing
ESCIScopusDOAJLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 2.1Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 2.8LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 2.8Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.71LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.03LetPub ·
- h-index
- 45OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 552OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.36OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 4.8%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 99.88%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 334LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher)
- 576,692Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 2,050 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 159 | 159 | 25 |
| 2025 | 349 | 349 | 622 |
| 2024 | 251 | 251 | 1,145 |
| 2023 | 253 | 253 | 1,929 |
| 2022 | 258 | 258 | 2,302 |
| 2021 | 241 | 241 | 2,707 |
Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with PubMed · to
193 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 158 days – 243 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 23 days (104 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 215 days
- Sample
- 104 articles with submission and acceptance dates (557 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- about 20 weeksLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 49%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 20 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to publication (journal-reported)
- about 28 weeksDOAJ ·
- Peer review
- Single anonymous peer reviewDOAJ
Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessDOAJ
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DOAJ | GBP 2,390 | Yes | CC BY, CC BY-NC, CC BY-NC-ND | |
| OpenAlex | GBP 1,500 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 2,163 | Yes | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Article types accepted8
- commentarySubmission guidelines Original research Systematic review Review Research and reporting methodology Short report Quality education report Quality improvement re…Length not stated
- original researchSubmission guidelines Original research Systematic review Review Research and reporting methodology Short report Quality education report Quality improvement re…Length not stated
- quality education reportSubmission guidelines Original research Systematic review Review Research and reporting methodology Short report Quality education report Quality improvement re…Length not stated
- quality improvement reportSubmission guidelines Original research Systematic review Review Research and reporting methodology Short report Quality education report Quality improvement re…Length not stated
- research and reporting methodologySubmission guidelines Original research Systematic review Review Research and reporting methodology Short report Quality education report Quality improvement re…Length not stated
- reviewSubmission guidelines Original research Systematic review Review Research and reporting methodology Short report Quality education report Quality improvement re…Length not stated
- short reportSubmission guidelines Original research Systematic review Review Research and reporting methodology Short report Quality education report Quality improvement re…Length not stated
- systematic reviewSubmission guidelines Original research Systematic review Review Research and reporting methodology Short report Quality education report Quality improvement re…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websitePublication ethics, Peer review
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Country or region
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2399-6641
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗LetPub
- Submission system ↗Publisher website
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- APC information ↗DOAJ
- Fee waivers ↗DOAJ
- Open access statement ↗DOAJ
- License & copyright ↗DOAJ
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
- Plagiarism policy ↗DOAJ
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about BMJ Open Quality
What CAS zone is BMJ Open Quality in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, BMJ Open Quality is in Zone 4 of Medicine, and in Zone 4 of the minor category Health Care Sciences & Services / Medicine, General & Internal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 4 of Medicine. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of BMJ Open Quality?
The journal's website gives an impact factor of 2.1 (2025); this is the journal's own figure, as LetPub lists none for it; CiteScore 2.8, h-index 45.
How long does peer review take at BMJ Open Quality?
Based on the dates recorded on 104 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 193 days (interquartile range 158–243 days); authors report an average review time of about 20 weeks; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 49%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of BMJ Open Quality based?
Of the 5 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United Kingdom (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index BMJ Open Quality?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, BMJ Open Quality is indexed in ESCI, Scopus and DOAJ.
Is BMJ Open Quality open access, and what is the APC?
BMJ Open Quality is a fully open-access journal. APC charged, amount not published.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex, DOAJ; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .