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Aims and scope

BMC Proceedings is an online, open access journal publishing proceedings of conferences across all scientific and clinical disciplines, including peer-reviewed full-length articles, collections of abstracts and meeting reports. Devoted specifically to conference publications, including large collections of articles, meetings of specialized interest and conferences of a cross- or multi-disciplinary nature, each collection is published as a supplement.

Open access

All articles published by BMC Proceedings are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

As authors of articles published in BMC Proceedings you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the BMC license agreement.

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, BMC can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Publication charges

Open access publishing is not without costs. BMC Proceedings therefore makes a charge for publishing each supplement. Supplement organisers, please contact us at supplements@biomedcentral.com to discuss requirements and costs.

BioMed Central provides a free open access funding support service to help authors discover and apply for article processing charge funding. Visit our OA funding and policy support page to view our list of research funders and institutions that provide funding.

Please note that APC waivers and institutional membership schemes do not apply to supplement publication.

Indexing services

All articles published in BMC Proceedings are included in:

  • CAB Abstracts
  • Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - GoOA
  • DOAJ
  • EBSCO Academic Search
  • EBSCO Biomedical Reference Collection
  • EBSCO Discovery Service
  • EBSCO STM Source
  • EMBASE
  • EMBiology
  • EMCare
  • Google Scholar
  • Naver
  • ProQuest Central
  • ProQuest Environmental Science
  • ProQuest Health & Medical Collection
  • ProQuest Health Research Premium Collection
  • ProQuest Natural Science Collection
  • ProQuest Public Health Database
  • ProQuest Technology Collection
  • PubMed
  • PubMedCentral
  • Reaxys
  • SCImago
  • SCOPUS
  • Semantic Scholar


The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by BioMed Central on SpringerLink.


Preparation and submission of manuscripts

All content submitted to BMC Proceedings is given approval-in-principle by the Editor, based on the proposal provided by the organising group. New proposals can directed to supplements@biomedcentral.com

A supplement organizer is appointed for each conference collection, and will distribute the Instructions for Authors to those invited to submit articles. 

Peer-review policy

Peer-review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.

BMC Proceedings operates a single-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers are aware of the names and affiliations of the authors, but the reviewer reports provided to authors are anonymous.

BMC Proceedings allows guest Supplement Editors, who fulfill BMC criteria, and have no conflicts of interest, to act as handling editors. Supplement Editors oversee peer review of articles, using BMCā€™s review systems and standards. BMC check each review and reviewer, to ensure that rigorous standards of peer review are maintained.

The Journal Editor retains overall editorial control of the Supplement content at all times and may request changes, corrections, rejections or withdrawals where articles do not meet Journal standards.

Publication of research articles by BMC Proceedings is dependent primarily on their scientific validity and coherence as judged by our external expert editors and peer reviewers. We do not make editorial decisions on the basis of the interest of a study or its likely impact. Studies must be scientifically valid; for research articles this includes a scientifically sound research question, the use of suitable methods and analysis, and following community-agreed standards relevant to the research field.

Any queries regarding reviews for BMC Proceedings can be directed to BMC by email: supplements@biomedcentral.com.

Production process

All content will be published in full-text and fully formatted PDF versions on the journal's website.

Supplement organizers should be aware that in order to keep publication costs down BioMed Central will expect that much of the administration will be handled by the supplement organizers.

This will involve:

  • ensuring that all article submissions are rigorously peer reviewed, and that copies of all reviewers' comments are deposited with BioMed Central
  • distributing BioMed Central's instructions for authors and copyright and license agreement
  • collecting the articles and submitting these as a batch by agreement with BioMed Central
  • providing BioMed Central with evidence that all authors have agreed to our copyright and license policy
  • ensuring that authors have checked the full-text version of each article
  • providing any corrections that may be necessary to BioMed Central
  • checking and confirming that corrections have been completed satisfactorily

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to BMC Proceedings should adhere to BioMed Central's editorial policies.

Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Appeals and complaints

Authors who wish to appeal a rejection or make a complaint should follow the procedure outlined in the BMC Editorial Policies.

Citing articles in BMC Proceedings

Articles in BMC Proceedings should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal supplement. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.

Article citations follow this format:

Authors: Title. BMC Proceedings [year], [volume number][(Suppl number)]:[article number].

e.g. Roberts LD, Hassall DG, Winegar DA, Haselden JN, Nicholls AW, Griffin JL: Increased hepatic oxidative metabolism distinguishes the action of Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor delta from Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor gamma in the Ob/Ob mouse. BMC Proceedings 2009, 1(Suppl 2):S3.

refers to article S3 from Volume 1 Supplement 2 of the journal.

Benefits of publishing with BMC

High visibility

BMC Proceedings's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience. 

Speed of publication

BMC Proceedings offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF.

Flexibility

Online publication in BMC Proceedings gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in BMC Proceedings are included in article alerts and regular email updates. Some may be highlighted on BMC Proceedingsā€™s pages and on the BMC homepage.

In addition, articles published in BMC Proceedings may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in BMC Proceedings. A list of articles recently press-released by journals published by BMC is available here.

Copyright

As an author of an article published in BMC Proceedings you retain the copyright of your article and you are free to reproduce and disseminate your work (for further details, see the BMC license agreement).

For further information about the advantages of publishing in a journal from BMC, please click here.

Annual Journal Metrics

  • 2022 Citation Impact
    0.914 - SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper)
    0.506 - SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

    2023 Usage 
    640,615 downloads
    196 Altmetric mentions